Coventry Building Society, the UK's second largest mutual with assets of £18.4bn, and Stroud & Swindon become the latest building societies to seek a merger

Britain's next government should create a £5bn French-style fund to make strategic long-term investments in manufacturing companies, the Trades Union Congress says

The FTSE 100 fund manager has retreated from a strategy of acquiring other fund management businesses and will instead focus on its organic growth

The role of Jim O'Neill, Goldman Sachs's chief economist, as member of a consortium looking to buy Manchester United brings back uncomfortable memories