Bloomberg Embattled UK leader Boris Johnson said he plans to stick around as prime minister for a third term until the mid-2030s, an act of defiance in the face of mounting political defeats and pressure within his own Conservative Party. Earlier this month, Johnson survived a leadership challenge and there is growing speculation that another confidence vote is being hatched ...

  Bloomberg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa mounted a defense of his corruption-fighting record and promised consequences for the architects of a massive scheme to defraud the state days after the head of a judicial inquiry found that he had stood by while the looting happened. In a column carried by the Sunday Times, Ramaphosa detailed his efforts to rebuild ...

  Bloomberg Canadian banks fall about 20% from their record high set in early February as recession fears send investors fleeing. The S&P/TSX Commercial Banks Index, which tracks the country’s eight largest lenders, dropped, adding to another day of losses after inflation in Canada surged to a four-decade high and US data pointed to rising unemployment and slumping manufacturing and ...

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc has agreed to buy Kensington Mortgage Company Ltd, expanding the reach of its offering in Britain’s housing market. The lender’s UK unit will pay about £2.3 billion ($2.8 billion) for the specialist mortgage lender that is owned by Blackstone Inc. and Sixth Street, according to a statement. Kensington, which is based in Maidenhead, England, and has ...

  Bloomberg The first hints that consumer belt-tightening is passing through to corporate earnings are coming in, posing a bigger risk to US equities than stock-selling by American households, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. High inflation and declining asset prices have started to strain household finances, Goldman strategists led by David Kostin wrote. They cited the 0.3% drop in ...

  Bloomberg SumUp has achieved an 8 billion euro ($8.4 billion) valuation in its latest funding round, raising 590 million euros in a deal split between debt and equity in a bid to develop new products and gain clients. Bloomberg News first reported in January that SumUp was considering raising a fresh round of funding. People with knowledge of the ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group is considering replacing its top lawyer Romeo Cerutti, as the troubled lender struggles to resolve legacy legal issues and focus on looming court battles, people familiar with the matter said. The Zurich-based lender is considering hiring former UBS Group AG general counsel Markus Diethelm, the people said. Diethelm is fresh from exiting as chief legal ...

  Bloomberg Zimbabwe penalised 12 banks for “financial indiscipline” that fueled inflation and undermined the currency, the Herald newspaper cited President Emmerson Mnangagwa as saying. The unidentified institutions have received unspecified “hefty penalties,” Mnangagwa told supporters of the ruling party after opening a gold-processing facility, according to the Harare-based paper. The central bank probed a total of 16 lenders suspected ...

  Bloomberg Alyssa McKay used to work part-time at a frozen yogurt store in Portland, Oregon, making minimum wage to cover her college tuition. Now the 22-year-old earns more than $100,000 a year on the short-video platform TikTok. Brands like Coach, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video pay up to reach her 9 million followers, mostly teenage and pre-teen girls who ...

  Bloomberg Instagram, under fire from safety advocates to keep children off the app and prevent teens from seeing harmful content, is testing new ways to verify users’ age. Among them: running users’ video selfies through an artificial intelligence (AI) that can determine if they are adults. The Meta Platforms Inc-owned app recently started requiring users to submit their birthdate ...