A retirement specialist taken over this year by Brookfield Corporation, the Canadian investment giant, is axing a quarter of its workforce less than six months after the completion of the £2.4bn deal.
TalkTalk Telecom Group is closing in on a £200m deal to break itself up as its biggest lender again emerges as the leading contender to take control of one of Britain's biggest broadband suppliers.
The German car giant Volkswagen is preparing to disclose a massive hit from the City watchdog's £9bn motor finance redress scheme, months after it joined a group of rivals in mounting a legal challenge to its implementation.
McLaren Racing is on track to become the first Formula One team to notch up $1bn in revenues this year, in the slipstream of Championship-winning performances which fuelled a record payout to its boss, Zak Brown.
Revolut, Britain's most valuable fintech, is among a pack of challenger banks urging the chancellor to remove the threat of an immediate tax raid on the sector in his budget next month.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework for AI could be more difficult than Cold War-era negotiations to restrict nuclear weapons.