Fees from return of dealmaking add to another record quarter for Wall Street bank’s equity traders

A summer of splits shows what post-Trump conservatism will look like

Attack follows days of deadly sectarian clashes in southern Syria and marks significant escalation of Israeli campaign

Struggling FTSE 100 drinks group searching for new chief to lead turnaround and rebuild investor confidence

Attendees of Mansion House dinner say UK chancellor needs to go further with anti-regulation, pro-risk stance

Hg spent two decades taking Visma to the brink of London’s biggest tech IPO in years. Can it repeat the trick with bigger, newer funds?

June figure marks setback for central bank as it considers interest rate cuts

UK watchdog says ‘simple check’ could have prevented breach by lender

Analysis of large biological dataset uncovers clues to help detect and combat neurodegenerative conditions

Focusing on improving a regime already seen as successful looks like a government seeking easy, rather than impactful, changes

Only China and Canada have retaliated against US president’s tariff war

Financial markets will be closer in the future to a singe from inflation than a freeze in growth and prices

Change reflects EU effort to favour domestic industries, from defence to agriculture

Law firms in ‘no-win, no-fee’ class actions criticised for imposing ‘deeply troubling’ exit charges

The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

Cross-party group says tax authority faces challenges in getting data to target wealthy people

Erica Williams told staff at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that Paul Atkins asked her to resign

No other globally competitive financial services hub imposes such relentless bureaucracy on its businesses

BoE governor says revamping old infrastructure ‘must be a priority’ in his Mansion House speech

Trump’s focus on the goods of the past is ridiculous. What matters is competitiveness in the future

Jakarta to be hit with 19% tariff on exports to US after talks with Washington

Super-injunction thwarted scrutiny of a data leak and Afghan resettlement scheme

Chancellor uses Mansion House speech to unveil what she claims is a big reduction in financial services regulation

François Bayrou stakes his political survival on unpopular measures to repair degraded public finances