All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 15 2019 // Panama will withdraw its flag from more vessels that violate sanctions and international legislation, the country’s maritime authority told Reuters, following the removal of about 60 ships linked to Iran and Syria...
Jul 11 2019 // The British navy intervened to stop Iran from blocking a commercial oil tanker leaving the Persian Gulf, heightening friction just as European nations scramble to salvage a landmark nuclear accord with the Islamic...
Jul 2 2019 // British public companies and pension funds may have to publish by 2022 what risks their businesses face from climate change under a new so-called green finance strategy.Britain last week became the first G7 country to sign...
Jun 26 2019 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced it has released an expanded inland flood model for Central Europe to include the country of Poland in its model domain.AIR also announced that it has updated the storm...
Jun 17 2019 // There are only so many ways U.K. business chiefs can express their dismay at the Brexit deadlock engulfing the country.Frustration at politicians has morphed into outright anger in the three years since the referendum on...
Jun 14 2019 // Threatening to leave the European Union without a deal isn’t likely to win Britain concessions from the bloc, the country’s biggest business group said in a warning to candidates jostling to succeed Prime...
Jun 14 2019 // Swiss Re AG confirmed that its U.K.-based ReAssure Group Plc unit intends to undertake an initial public offering, giving the business firepower to expand its closed life and pension business.The company is expected to...
Jun 13 2019 // Three U.S. companies have been slapped with a wrongful death and products liability lawsuit for manufacturing products linked to London’s Grenfell tower fire. The fire, which has been called the worst UK residential...
Jun 13 2019 // Britain has announced it will enshrine a new commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 into law, marking a first among G7 nations facing increasingly severe impacts from the climate crisis.With global...
Jun 13 2019 // The European Union said it’s ready for the U.K. to leave the bloc without a deal and isn’t planning any further contingency measures.In a progress report on its no-deal Brexit planning, the European Commission...
Jun 7 2019 // Swiss Re is pressing ahead with plans to float its $4.5 billion UK life insurance business in London to put it under a more favorable regulatory regime and give it easier access to capital to fund its expansion.ReAssure,...
Jun 6 2019 // Eleven Conservatives are in the running to succeed Theresa May as U.K. prime minister. Each has their own vision of how to fix Brexit, and their views are so divergent that whoever wins will struggle to unite the party...
Jun 6 2019 // Aviva Plc’s new chief executive officer, Maurice Tulloch, kicked off his overhaul of the company with a plan to cut costs and jobs and streamline its U.K. business.Tulloch, who took over in March, said he would...
Jun 5 2019 // Policymakers should “tether” London to the European Union to avoid isolating the region’s largest financial hub, harming the euro zone economy and spawning an offshore financial center, the head of the...
Jun 3 2019 // Prime Minister Theresa May’s successor must avoid a no-deal Brexit or risk losing the Conservatives’ moniker as the party of commerce, the U.K.’s biggest business lobby group said.The task facing the next...
May 31 2019 // Allianz SE agreed to buy two insurance businesses in the U.K. in deals valued at a combined $1 billion, transforming the firm into the second-biggest general insurer in the country.The Munich-headquartered company agreed...
May 30 2019 // Corporate debt insurance that fell out of favor after the financial crisis is returning to vogue as default rates rise and a series of high-profile failures pay off for short sellers.Credit-default swaps trading increased...
May 30 2019 // Uncertainty over Britain’s departure from the European Union has triggered a sharp drop in business confidence in Europe over the past six months, a survey showed on Thursday.Only 50% of European business leaders...
May 24 2019 // Fighting back tears, Theresa May said on Friday she would quit, setting up a contest that will install a new British prime minister who could pursue a cleaner break with the European Union.May’s departure deepens the...
May 21 2019 // Britain’s finance industry will emerge stronger from Brexit, remaining one of the world’s top financial centers, ministers in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government forecast on Monday.Since Britain voted...