Britain's workers became less productive in the final quarter of 2014, highlighting a significant weakness that has dogged the UK economy for eight years. After a hat trick of good economic news this ...

The door appears to be shutting on a popular means of lower risk tax-efficient investment as the government clamps down on vehicles that benefit from both public subsidies and tax breaks. Investment ...

An annual survey of France's 500 wealthiest individuals and families published this week showed their fortunes grew 15 per cent in 2013, news that has added resonance given the huge stir caused by ...

Mark Carney said the new European Union bonus cap - which the UK is challenging in the EU court - would have the "undesirable ...

"That event gave me the confidence to realise there were other businesswomen out there." She is not alone in identifying lack of confidence as a key issue which can curb female entrepreneurship.

Charterhouse Capital Partners has highlighted private equity groups' increasing appetite for the education sector after agreeing to pay $2bn for SkillSoft, a US teaching software provider. The ...

The George Washington University School of Business has fired its dean, Doug Guthrie, after the scale of a budgetary overspend came to light. In a brief letter to faculty, the university's provost, ...

James Healy-Pratt, head of the aviation department at the legal firm Stewarts Law in London, estimates that Allianz could eventually pay out as much as €300m.

Business groups have warned against a Scottish National party plan to raise the minimum wage at least in line with inflation, if Scotland votes for independence. Announced last year and included in ...

Cyber security provider Tanium has become one of the largest ever investments made by Andreessen Horowitz, as part of efforts to raise more money to expand outside the US. Tanium's technology has been ...

A push by BHP Billiton, the world's biggest resource company by market value, to have coking coal prices set by an index-based pricing system has encountered further resistance. BHP has been ...

Former employees of ICAP, Rabobank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank and UBS were among 22 names that the UK Serious Fraud Office included as alleged co-conspirators on a draft indictment ...