Back to school: meet PE’s new headmasters

Top European private capital firms have fresh leadership

Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026

AI sounds the death knell for audit fee inflation

Companies’ audit bills increased less than 2% last year, broadly in line with inflation

Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026

Mbappé-backed health start-up expands to west Africa

Deal to buy Senegalese insurer Tanel comes months after fundraising valued France’s Alan at €5.5bn

Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026

Warsh and peace

Bond yields keep rising after the Fed chair’s Jackson Hole speech

Posted on Tuesday September 01, 2026

Swiss finance minister hits out at move to water down UBS capital plans

Karin Keller-Sutter criticises lawmakers for compromise proposal ‘in favour of the bank and against taxpayers’

Posted on Tuesday September 01, 2026

US launches further strikes on Iran as conflict flares up

Escalation pushes oil prices higher and sends Treasury yields to day’s highs as investors fret over new bout of inflation

Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026

The wheels are coming off the US world order

Trump believes in a world in which there are no allies, only satellites, and in which power is America’s alone to wield

Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026

‘Plan 2’ graduates earning less than £45,000 are unlikely to clear debts

Government data will add to calls for reform of tuition fee system in England

Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026

The Takaichi revolution

The prime minister’s style is clashing with Japan’s traditions — and the bond market

Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026

China derails consensus on communiqué after US-hosted G20

Beijing objects to language calling for elimination of ‘non-market’ policies to curb trade imbalances

Posted on Tuesday September 01, 2026