Italy and UK risk driving Formula 1 away with misguided tax raids April 26, 2026 Italy’s latest attempt to claw back tax from Formula 1 drivers and teams is being framed as a crackdown on evasion. In reality, it looks far more like a system struggling to keep up with the modern sport it is trying to regulate. Authorities are reportedly looking to audit teams and drivers retrospectively between 2020 [...]
Spare us Zack Polanski and Zohran Mamdani’s empty progressivism April 25, 2026 Mamdani’s victory in New York proves it’s time to take Zack Polanski and the Green Party seriously. That means recognising how much their policy platform depends on wishful thinking and fantasy economics, says Eliot Wilson Harold Wilson, perhaps Labour’s wiliest Prime Minister, supposedly coined the phrase “a week is a long time in politics”. It [...]
Janus Henderson to Report First Quarter 2026 Results April 24, 2026 Janus Henderson Group plc (NYSE: JHG) (“Janus Henderson” or the “Company”) will announce its first quarter 2026 results after market close on Friday, May 8, 2026. While the previously announced take-private transaction with Trian Fund Management, L.P. and its affiliated funds, and General Catalyst Group Management, LLC and its affiliated funds remains pending, the Company [...]
Motor finance and wealth progress in spotlight for Lloyds earnings April 24, 2026 Investors will be looking for old wounds to be heal and crucial updates on expansion progress when Lloyds Banking Group gives its first-quarter update next week. The FTSE 100 banking titan – which is frequently cited as the UK’s most-traded stock – will give markets an insight into how it started the new year on [...]
Big Four giant KPMG downgrades equity partners April 24, 2026 Big Four giant KPMG has begun demoting UK senior equity partners – members who hold a stake in the firm and share its profits – and instead offering them lower status salaried partner roles. KPMG, which last year paid its equity partners on average £800,000 each a year, has reportedly been inviting the partners for [...]
Porsche Sells Bugatti Stake to BlueFive Capital April 24, 2026 Porsche has agreed to sell its equity stake in Bugatti Rimac. Porsche and Rimac Group established Bugatti Rimac as a joint venture in 2021 to serve as home to the iconic Bugatti brand. In this joint venture, Porsche holds a minority stake of 45%, Rimac Group owns 55%. Porsche also holds a 20.6% stake in [...]
Baggage handler demands Heathrow red tape overhaul amid cost scrutiny April 24, 2026 One of Heathrow’s longest-standing partners has joined a campaign demanding an urgent overhaul of the airport’s regulatory model, saying the hub’s current cost structure and performance languish behind other world-leading hubs. City AM can reveal that Menzies Aviation, which handles much of the baggage passing through the west London hub, has thrown its weight behind [...]
KPMG: Over half of insurance CEOs anticipate major M&A disruption April 24, 2026 Partner content, in association with KPMG Insurance A new major report by Big Four giant KPMG has revealed that over 50 per cent of CEOs in the insurance sector expect high-impact M&A deals to affect their businesses, a figure higher than in any other sector in the survey. Huw Evans, Partner and head of insurance [...]
Inside the most outrageous car Rolls-Royce has ever built April 24, 2026 Even By Rolls-Royce’s standards, this ultra-bespoke Coachbuild Collection car – a dramatic drop-top – is something else Known as Project Nightingale, the car will be offered to 100 specially selected Rolls-Royce customers. Each buyer is then invited to become immersed in the design and production process. Styling inspiration comes from classic Rolls-Royce vehicles, paying particular [...]
Crypto firms ‘obvious contender’ to replace betting brands in Premier League April 24, 2026 Crypto companies are “an obvious contender” to replace betting firms as main shirt sponsors when the Premier League ban on gambling brands kicks in next year. More than half of English top-flight teams need new main sponsors for the 2026-27 season and market intelligence platform Caytoo says that it is surprising that no crypto brand [...]