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The Emirati businessman credited with turning DP World into a global logistics powerhouse has left the company amid questions over his links to the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was the chairman and CEO of the Dubai based group and its earlier entities for more than four decades. Its interests include […]

A financial trading company which counts the former mining tycoon and erstwhile Conservative Party treasurer Sir Mick Davis among its board members is reviving plans for a £40m London stock market listing. Sky News understands that Iforex Financial Trading Holdings, which sells financial instruments used to place wagers on the direction of equities and other

The UK’s biggest banks have had a strong annual earnings season. Updates from Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest have shown strong profit growth, with their respective UK earnings being boosted by the slower-than-hoped-for pace of interest rate cuts introduced by the Bank of England last year. Cost-cutting has played a role too, with lenders eyeing up

The planned £500m sale of the Telegraph titles to the owner of the Daily Mail is facing an inquiry over competition concerns, the government has announced. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said in a written statement to MPs that she had intervened on public interest grounds, including how the deal could impact the “plurality of views”