A judge refused Tuesday to let members of Britain's largest private pension scheme pursue fraud claims against its corporate trustee, ruling they couldn't clear the legal threshold for a derivative suit alleging that changes to the funding and benefits structure were negligent.

Mining giant Glencore will pay more than $1.1 billion in criminal and civil penalties after pleading guilty to U.S. bribery and market manipulation charges Tuesday and said it will soon also admit to foreign corruption charges in the U.K.

The U.K. accounting regulator said Tuesday it has fined KPMG Audit PLC £3.4 million ($4.3 million) over its handling of the accounts of Rolls-Royce Group PLC, the aero-engine maker that later reached a settlement with the Serious Fraud Office.

Samsung has infringed trademarks of some of the Swatch Group's biggest brands by allowing customers to download external apps for its smartwatch that replicate the face of the Swiss company's famous watches, a London court has ruled.

A lawyer for the self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin told a London court at the start of a libel trial on Monday that his reputation was "poisoned" by Twitter posts and interview comments by a podcaster calling the computer scientist a fraud.

The top court for British overseas territories ruled on Monday that a Trinidad and Tobago group claiming to represent victims of an oil spill could not bring a class action against an oil company because the organization did not have the right to represent residents.

Britain's privacy watchdog said on Monday that it has fined a facial recognition software company £7.5 million ($9.4 million) for breaching data protection laws and ordered it to delete images of U.K. citizens from its database.

A judge ruled Friday that a health care subsidiary of the security contractor G4S could not exit a negligence suit brought by a man its staff recommended releasing from police custody — only for him to kill three people the next day.

A British businessman convicted of stealing £35 million ($44 million) from a software company could face further prison time after admitting on Friday that he had spent £30,000 in breach of a court order.

Swiss insurance giant Zurich said Friday it has agreed to sell off its Russian arm to shut down all its operations in the country, joining the wave of major multinationals leaving as the invasion of Ukraine nears its fourth month.