By ALEX BRUMMER FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 17:11 EDT, 3 June 2025 As a long-standing critic of private equity pillage, I should be cheering from the rooftops at the decision by KKR to pull out of its proposed rescue of Thames Water. Yet given the ghastly legacy of financial …
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By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00, 2 June 2025 A former trade minister has been appointed as an adviser to the new owner of Royal Mail. Greg Hands, who lost his seat as a Conservative MP in last year’s election, will advise Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group on …
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By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 21:50, 30 May 2025 M&G has sold a 15 per cent stake to one of Japan’s biggest life insurers in a partnership deal. Shares in the financial group rallied yesterday after it announced that Dai-ichi Life is now its largest shareholder in a long-term tie-up. The …
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By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 16:50 EDT, 30 May 2025 M&G has sold a 15 per cent stake to one of Japan’s biggest life insurers in a partnership deal. Shares in the financial group rallied yesterday after it announced that Dai-ichi Life is now its largest shareholder in a long-term tie-up. …
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Nikki Walker, 49, from Leeds in West Yorkshire, said she was at home working when she suddenly heard her beloved pooch Bella the cockapoo squealing in pain outside The incident was captured on doorcam footage(Image: Kennedy News and Media) A Royal Mail postie has been snapped on camera kicking a …
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Everplay rebranded from Team17 in March this year By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 05:04 EDT, 16 May 2025 Shares in London-listed indie video games maker Everplay fell on Friday as it revealed chief executive Steve Bell has left the firm after less than two years in charge. Everplay, which rebranded from …
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German delivery giant buys ‘significant’ minority stake in Evri owner Apollo Evri will enter the business letter market for the first time post merger By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 06:51 EDT, 14 May 2025 Evri is set to merge with German delivery giant DHL’s UK economerce business, creating one of the …
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The velocity of the zigzags in Trump trade mayhem is remarkable. No one expected US peace in our time at the Geneva talks with China at the weekend, but what emerged is better than predicted. Just over a month after ‘Liberation Day’, the core tariff conflict between the US and …
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FD Technologies was founded in 1996 as First Derivatives by Brian Conlon By HARRY WISE Updated: 10:40 EDT, 8 May 2025 A prominent Northern Irish software developer has agreed to be acquired by a US private equity business in a deal valuing the group at £542million. FD Technologies revealed on …
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‘The URL in the image you sent me is not part of the official Royal Mail Website, meaning it’s likely a scam.’ This is the response from AI scam-detection tool Ask Silver, when it was sent a screenshot of a message received from an unknown number on WhatsApp. The text …
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