Rachel Armstrong

Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said Credit Suisse told him it was closing his foundation’s bank account in Switzerland earlier this year citing his “criminal record” in China, despite the activist never being convicted of a crime.

Czech firm Eurowag, which provides payment services and a fleet management system to the haulage industry, is set to be valued at up to 1.69 billion euros ($1.98 billion) in its upcoming London initial public offering (IPO), a bookrunner said on Tuesday.

London Stock Exchange Group said it was on track to achieve cost savings from the integration of data platform Refinitiv after a steady third quarter, but warned supply chain shortages could impact the timing of its technology spending.

British fund supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown said on Friday that it had appointed Amy Stirling as chief financial officer, to replace Philip Johnson.

Volumes on PayPal Inc’s ‘buy now, pay later’ platform were five times higher this Black Friday compared with a year earlier as the payments giant starts to gain traction in the fast-growing credit method, the company’s chief executive told the Reuters Next conference.

State-backed bank NatWest is to pay 265 million pounds ($351.13 million) in fines, after pleading guilty to failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds.

British money manager Schroders plc said on Tuesday it has reached an agreement to buy 75% of renewable investor Greencoat Capital Holdings Limited in a bid to grow its sustainable investment offering .

HSBC said on Thursday it had received regulatory approval in China to take full ownership of its life insurance joint venture in the country, as it continues to expand its non-core banking services.

American banking giant JPMorgan has merged most of its European Union businesses into a single entity in Germany, it said on Monday, seeking to make its business in the bloc more competitive after Britain’s departure.

The explosive crescendo of “Zadok the Priest”, Handel’s soaring anthem composed nearly 300 years ago for the crowning of King George III, marked the most sacred moment of Charles’ coronation on Saturday.