BT Group is being asked to forego payments from TalkTalk's wholesale arm worth about £300m as the outcome of rescue talks for one of Britain's biggest broadband providers enters its final stages.
John Healey, the chancellor, has summoned the bosses of Britain's biggest banks for a pre-budget summit amid industry expectations of a tax raid later this month.
A woman who was assaulted at a Travelodge when a man was given a key card to her room was treated in a "disgraceful" way by the hotel chain, an independent review found.
Goldman Sachs is committing up to £500m in funding to a specialist SME housebuilding lender in the wake of figures casting fresh doubt on the likelihood of the government achieving its new homes target during this parliament.
Ministers have awarded a seven-figure contract to scrutinise Tata Steel's request for hundreds of millions of pounds of extra taxpayer funding amid doubts over the timetable for constructing a new electric arc furnace (EAF) in South Wales.
The private equity firm which wants to buy the wholesale arm of struggling TalkTalk Telecom Group has approached BT Group to seek relief from payments worth over £100m in order to push a rescue deal through.
Ted Baker, one of Britain's best-known fashion brands, is staging a high street comeback more than two years after its remaining standalone stores shut their doors for the last time.
The insurance broker Howden Group is lining up one of Britain's most prominent businessmen as its next chairman as it plots a public listing in the coming years.