All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 19 2020 // Global broker Willis Towers Watson announced the appointment of Mark Russell-Vick as its new head of broking for its Financial, Executive and Professional (Finex) line of business in Great Britain within its Corporate Risk...
Aug 19 2020 // Britain is working with London’s Heathrow Airport on a plan to use COVID-19 testing to help shorten quarantine times, in an effort to help airlines and airports kickstart travel and the wider economy.Heathrow said on...
Aug 13 2020 // Britain suffered its worst train crash in more than 15 years after a derailment in Scotland killed three people, including the driver, and left another six injured.The Scotrail service was traveling from Aberdeen to...
Aug 3 2020 // Late in March, Laura Gross, 72, was recovering from gall bladder surgery in her Fort Lee, New Jersey, home when she became sick again.Her throat, head and eyes hurt, her muscles and joints ached and she felt like she was...
Jul 30 2020 // London’s normally buzzing financial districts will still be a pale shadow by the end of the year, as banks plan for no more than half their staff, who have mostly worked from home throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, to...
Jul 24 2020 // Britain and the European Union clashed on Thursday over the chances of securing a free trade agreement, with Brussels deeming it “unlikely” but London holding out hope one could be reached in September.Since...
Jul 21 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. is bracing for a long summer of legal battles that could see the end of its reign in London and entitle its drivers to a long list of workers’ rights.A dispute over whether its drivers should...
Jul 15 2020 // More than 200,000 Brazilian people and groups will next week kick off a 5 billion-pound ($6.3 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian miner BHP in Britain over a 2015 dam failure that led to Brazil’s worst...
Jul 14 2020 // Only one-quarter of business leaders say their organizations are fully ready for the end of the Brexit transition period, according to a survey by the Institute of Directors.Nearly half of the 978 company directors polled...
Jul 1 2020 // LONDON – British proposals to give the City of London access to the European Union are “unacceptable” because they seek to maintain the benefits of the single market without the obligations, the...
Jun 24 2020 // EasyJet Plc faces a lawsuit over a data breach disclosed last month that potentially exposed private details of 9 million passengers.More than 10,000 people have joined the suit since it was filed last month, according to...
Jun 24 2020 // Britain and the European Union are set to miss their end-June deadline for assessing future cross-border trade in financial services, leaving just six months before a potentially messy UK exit, financial industry and EU...
Jun 19 2020 // London is facing up to its role in insuring the slave trade as part of a sweeping global reassessment of history and racism.This reappraisal was triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a...
Jun 16 2020 // Trade talks between the EU and UK have struggled in recent weeks, increasing the prospect that Britain departs the bloc without a deal and that businesses face an extreme shock when the divorce takes effect.It’s a...
Jun 3 2020 // The threat of a no-deal Brexit is back — and with it the risk that the UK economy’s shaky recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will be hobbled.As British and European Union negotiators head into the last...
May 21 2020 // Limits on elevators, thermal imaging and temperature checks will greet a first wave of traders and bankers in Britain preparing to return to offices under new norms to tackle the coronavirus.Britain’s financial...
May 21 2020 // British insurer Aviva expects 160 million pounds ($195 million) in claims related to the coronavirus pandemic and weaker second quarter sales, it said on Thursday, as government lockdowns aimed at containing the virus hit...
May 20 2020 // Boris Johnson’s chief Brexit negotiator accused the European Union of offering the UK only a “low-quality” trade deal as talks between the two sides descended into acrimony.In a dramatic intervention in...
May 18 2020 // Britain’s fruit and vegetable farmers have long dreaded their country’s exit from the European Union, worrying that it would keep out the tens of thousands of Eastern European workers who come every year to...
May 7 2020 // If the novel COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control soon, the disease’s impact on the insurance industry as a whole may be pretty much a wash.It not, the industry may be on the verge of an historic catastrophe. A...