Carmakers employing thousands of people have issued stark warnings of an exodus from the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit, in the clearest signal yet of the panic spreading through the [...]

Facebook has been accused of abusing a security feature in order to weaken user privacy, after the social network was found using phone numbers initially handed over for account safety for other [...]

The boss of the Brazilian iron ore mining firm Vale has resigned, following growing public and political anger over the collapse of a dam in which at least 186 people [...]

Aston Martin’s flotation is turning rapidly sour for the luxury carmaker after its shares crashed more than 20% as it revealed a £136m bill to secure its stock market listing pushed it to a £68m annual [...]

Ted Baker shares have dived by 11% after the fashion retailer warned investors that its full-year profits will be about £10m lower than expected mostly due to writing off the value of unsold [...]

Delaying Britain’s departure from the EU would be better for the economy in the longer term – but the move could also have a damaging impact on firms that have spent two years preparing for a 29 March exit and now face the prospect of planning for a double cliff-edge, in March and June, business leaders have [...]

Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, has warned about the impact of Brexit on advertising, as it made a £200m writedown on its newspaper business that pushed it into the red for [...]

Metro Bank sees itself as an industry agitator, having burst on to the UK banking scene in 2010 with an eccentric American founder, dog-friendly branches and a flamboyant celebration of high street expansion that distinguished the lender from cost-cutting [...]

Metro Bank has clinched the biggest award to date from a £775m scheme meant to boost competition in the banking sector, despite the revelation of a major accounting blunder at the high street lender last [...]

The Barclays chief executive, Jes Staley, has promised to return more money to shareholders in an effort to fend off the attentions of the activist investor Edward Bramson, as the bank reported flat profits for [...]