Bloomberg Investors contemplating how London could look outside the European Union have already identified some potential victims: fast-growing British lenders that might have to face their first economic downturn as public companies. Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Money Holdings UK Plc and small lenders like OneSavings Bank Plc have ridden the recovering economy of recent years to help them win ...

  Bloomberg Daetwyler Holding AG, a Swiss provider of engineering and industrial parts, agreed to buy Premier Farnell Plc of the U.K. for £615 mn ($871 million) in a deal aimed at consolidating the fragmented European market for electronic-component distribution. Investors will get 165 pence in cash for each Premier Farnell share, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. ...

  Bloomberg France is set to continue the quick pace of wheat exports into next season, with low freight rates and large stockpiles helping increase overseas sales, according to the nation’s largest grain cooperatives. Shipments will probably start earlier than last year and exports to unusual destinations including countries in Asia will continue, Philippe de Raynal, chief executive officer of ...