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The Lagos of my childhood was thrilling for trips to the beach and dancing with cousins at family parties while uncles and aunties pressed crisp naira notes against my forehead; it was the land of ...

The “circle of life” is one guide: it is the cycle of politics in which crisis forces reform, which generates recovery but then breeds complacency and decay. The cycle then starts again, crisis to ...

Artis Finance, a recently collapsed invoice-finance firm majority-owned by TDR Capital executives, has told its lenders that key documents it sent them “misrepresented” the health of its portfolio.

For example, as of the fourth quarter, Helocs totalled just under $400bn, roughly 2 per cent of tappable home equity. At its peak in the third quarter of 2009, home equity credit as a percentage of ...

New Orleans during Mardi Gras week should have been the perfect venue for a boisterous party celebrating a global M&A blowout. There was just one problem: the explosion in deals that most American ...

In Lucky Boy, an affecting and discomforting four-part podcast from Tortoise Media, reporter Chloe Hadjimatheou tells of the relationship that would go on to derail Gareth’s life. Now in his fifties, ...

What happens in the White House over the next four years may influence financial markets for decades to come. Retirees, like most investors, are looking for places to hedge against increased political ...

On catwalks and in fashion shoots, more luxury brands are using the well-worn faces of older people — but why?

The structure has failed to take off in the US, but some argue it could broaden the European active ETF market ...

Canada’s Liberal party selects a new leader, and US President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division is turning heads on Wall Street. Plus, US startups are raising ...

Acquisition activity among Britain’s banks has been muted since the 2008 financial crisis, when Royal Bank of Scotland became an advertisement for how not to do M&A: collapsing after the €71bn ...