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Visa Inc. to buy Visa Europe for about $22Bn

Visa fires high-profile executive Jim McCarthy for 'violating' policy

Internal memo revealed the executive's departure but company declines further comment on the matter.

Dec 4, 2017

By Associated Press

Bleak Christmas for Toys R US with closure of 26 UK stores and 800 jobs at risk

Retailer will launch a company voluntary agreement on 21 December to renegotiate debts with its creditors.

Dec 4, 2017

By Dan Cancian

How AI, skills gaps and the gig economy are shaping the world of work

It's worth mapping key trends that are challenging traditional methods of recruitment.

Dec 4, 2017

By Jon Addison

Brexit Artificial Intelligence

Co-op Group agrees to sell 298 of its smaller food stores to McColl’s for £117m

Co-op to sell food after 'best before' date in crackdown against food waste

Food Standards Agency reveals Britain throws away 7.3 million tonnes of food almost every year.

Dec 4, 2017

By Dan Cancian

Barclays bank ends Kaspersky anti-virus product offer to online customers as a 'precaution'

Move follows warning by cybersecurity chiefs to government departments about Russian software.

Dec 2, 2017

By Gaurav Sharma

Barclays Russia

Thomas Cook to shut 50 stores and put 400 jobs in jeopardy amid shift towards online sales

Travel operator says the 400 affected employees will be redeployed across its UK network once closures begin in March 2018.

Dec 1, 2017

By Dan Cancian

RBS to cut 680 jobs amid plans to shut 259 branches

Unite union describes the cuts as "savage" and questions why government signed off the lender's closure plans.

Dec 1, 2017

By Dan Cancian

LON:RBS

Co-op and Iceland to launch deposit return scheme on plastic bottles

Supermarkets say scheme will increase production costs but will have longer-term benefits for environment.

Nov 30, 2017

By Dan Cancian

Kellogg eyes snack maker Diamond Foods; deal could be about $1bn

Kellogg's cereals' sugar content to be slashed in anti-obesity drive

Kellogg's will cut the level of sugar in its three most popular children's breakfast cereals in the UK by up to 40%.

Nov 30, 2017

By Karthick Arvinth

UberEats chief Jambu Palaniappan latest to quit troubled firm

Jambu Palaniappan has left his post as UberEats' regional manager for European markets to join a venture capital firm, reports say.

Nov 30, 2017

By Karthick Arvinth

Uber

Lloyds Bank to close 49 branches and axe 100 jobs

Lloyds Banking Group and Yorkshire Building Society to close a combined 62 branches, axing around 300 jobs.

Nov 29, 2017

By Dan Cancian

LON:LLOY

LSE boss asked to leave immediately amid boardroom row

A major LSE shareholder had asked for Rolet to be reinstated and for the company's chairman to be replaced.

Nov 29, 2017

By Dan Cancian

Loss of productivity due to IT issues costing UK businesses £62.4bn a year

Alarming report finds firms also losing an average of more than seven days a year on account of IT woes.

Nov 29, 2017

By Staff Reporter

Artificial Intelligence

British Airways scoops up Monarch's runway slots at Gatwick

British Airways' parent company IAG understood to have paid around £50m for slots at London's second airport.

Nov 28, 2017

By Dan Cancian

LON:IAG

British banks well placed to withstand 'disorderly Brexit'

Bank of England says high street lenders could cope with combination of hard Brexit and global recession.

Nov 28, 2017

By Dan Cancian

Brexit Bank of England

Meredith Corp buying Time Inc for $1.8bn in shake-up of US media landscape

The companies said deal was unanimously approved by their boards and will close early next year.

Nov 27, 2017

By Associated Press

Britons spend £50 a month on unwanted subscriptions that are too hard to cancel

Research from Citizens Advice finds women between 50 and 64 are the most likely to be affected by the issue.

Nov 27, 2017

By Dan Cancian

Business Secretary Greg Clark hails MSD investment as 'huge vote of confidence' in UK

MSD's investment would create around 950 jobs in high-skilled and high-value research roles, Clark said.

Nov 27, 2017

By Karthick Arvinth

Theresa May

UK businesses leak water equivalent to a shocking '257 Olympic pools' every year

New audit by utility company points to 'hidden environmental menace' of water leakage.

Nov 27, 2017

By Gaurav Sharma

Revealed: UK's best business cities for 'co-working' spaces

Research points to low ranking for London, despite the highest raw number of co-working office spaces.

Nov 27, 2017

By Staff Reporter

London

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