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February 20, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has clarified overlapping rules on how quickly banks bringing shares to the stock market must notify a regulatory information service such as the London Stock Exchange's RNS.
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February 20, 2026
The former chief executive of a semiconductor business has won $2 million as a tribunal ruled that the company unfairly sacked him for blowing the whistle over the risks of increased Chinese involvement in the company.
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February 20, 2026
Swiss Re Group said Friday its commercial insurance division has agreed to acquire the global trade credit and surety business of Australia's QBE Insurance Group, to satisfy growing demand for its risk management services.
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February 20, 2026
Big pharmaceutical companies circling mature drug candidates as they seek to fill a revenue hole of more than $200 billion — created by a looming patent cliff — might provide respite to venture capital investors that have struggled to exit biotech companies since COVID-19, experts say.
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February 20, 2026
Energy company Tullow said Friday that a subsidiary has agreed to acquire a majority stake in a vessel from T.E.N. Ghana MV25 BV for $125.6 million, to support its operations off the Ghanaian coast.
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February 20, 2026
Wildcat Petroleum PLC said Friday that it will drop out of the main market in London and change its focus to gold after failing to complete any acquisitions of upstream oil assets.
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February 20, 2026
Helium extractor Pulsar Helium Inc. said Friday that it has raised approximately £7.4 million ($10 million) through issuing shares to help back its projects and provide working capital.
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February 19, 2026
Negligent advice from Womble Bond Dickinson during a £126 million ($170 million) luxury London property redevelopment caused the deal to collapse, lawyers for two business people and a management company said on the first day of a High Court trial on Thursday.
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February 19, 2026
The U.K.'s antitrust authority said Thursday that it has provisionally found that Getty Images' planned $3.7 billion acquisition of Shutterstock could harm the supply of editorial images in Britain.
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February 19, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority will seek to make fewer new rules on the sectors it regulates, its chief executive has said, amid political pressure on the watchdog to do more to support U.K. economic growth.
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February 19, 2026
Global alternative asset manager ICG PLC said Thursday that it will launch a share repurchase program of up to £316 million ($425.5 million) next week in a move to lower its share capital.
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February 19, 2026
The European Union markets watchdog proposed Thursday to simplify guidelines on delaying disclosure of inside information under the market abuse regime, in order to reduce the burden for companies listing on stock exchanges.
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February 19, 2026
Sports betting company Spreadex urged the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Thursday to quash an order forcing it to sell a business it acquired in 2023, saying it was wrong to find that the merger would threaten competition.
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February 19, 2026
Commercial property company PPI said it has raised approximately 22.5 million Norwegian krone ($2.35 million) in an equity offering to fund the 34 billion krone acquisition of a portfolio of social infrastructure properties.
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February 19, 2026
Pacific Life Re has completed a longevity swap of €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) worth of pension liabilities for Dutch insurer Aegon.
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February 19, 2026
Boohoo Group, which trades as Debenhams Group, said on Thursday that it had raised about £40 million ($54 million) in an oversubscribed sale of shares geared toward creating additional liquidity.
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February 19, 2026
Liberty Global has agreed to acquire Vodafone Group PLC's 50% stake in the Dutch telecommunications joint venture VodafoneZiggo for €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in cash and a minority stake in a new West European company.
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February 18, 2026
Private equity firm InfraVia Capital Partners and European telecommunications companies Telefónica and Liberty Global will use their Nexfibre joint venture to pay $2.7 billion for Substantial Group, which is the "second-largest alternative fiber provider" in the United Kingdom, the acquiring companies announced Wednesday.
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February 18, 2026
Greenland-focused mining company Amaroq said Wednesday that it will cancel its listing in Canada after nearly nine years and upgrade its listing from the junior investment market of the London Stock Exchange to its main market at the same time.
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February 18, 2026
A markets watchdog called on lawmakers Wednesday to adjust proposed revisions to European sustainability reporting standards to better protect consumers and stop the risk of greenwashing.
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February 18, 2026
European technology giant Sopra Steria Ltd. has agreed to a £113 million ($154.4 million) buy-in with Pension Insurance Corp. PLC to secure long-term retirement income for its program's 355 members, the insurer said Wednesday.
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February 18, 2026
Real estate company PPHE said Wednesday that it has agreed to sell a development site in Manhattan for approximately $33.5 million, shelving plans to build its first hotel and condominiums in the U.S.
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February 18, 2026
Upland Resources Ltd. said Wednesday that it has successfully completed a share sale to raise £2 million ($2.7 million), funds that will help back its licensing ambitions in Southeast Asia.
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February 18, 2026
The pension plan for Noble Denton, an adviser to the oil and gas exploration industry, has agreed to a full scheme buy-in worth £11.4 million ($15.5 million), securing the retirement benefits of 106 members, an insurer broker has said.
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February 18, 2026
Beacon Energy PLC said Wednesday that it has set a date in March for shareholders to vote on its planned acquisition of a stake in a gas field project in Italy.