Buy now, pay later plans are set to face regulation in the U.K. after the government laid out proposals to bring the short-term loans under formal rules.
Microsoft offered to unbundle its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 software suites from its Teams workplace communication app to address competition concerns from European regulators.
"The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen," Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, told CNBC by video call.
The EU is preparing new sanctions on Russia despite a potential meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday, three sources told CNBC.