Banks Rocked by ‘Extreme’ Car Loan Costs Gear Up for FCA Fight October 27, 2025 By Upmanyu Trivedi and Jamie Nimmo The UK’s biggest banks are gearing up for yet another fight with regulators over how they’ll compensate consumers who were...
Carmakers Accused in Huge UK Lawsuits of Cheating Diesel Emissions Tests October 14, 2025 By Sam Tobin Some of the world’s biggest carmakers manipulated diesel emissions tests because they “would rather cheat than comply with the law,”...
UK Car Finance Industry Faces $11 Billion-$13 Billion Mis-Selling Hit October 8, 2025 By Kirstin Ridley and Phoebe Seers Britain’s motor finance industry is on the hook for 8.2 billion to 9.7 billion pounds ($11 billion-$13 billion) to compensate...
Continental AG Reaches Deal With Ex-Managers in Diesel Scandal, Handelsblatt Reports October 8, 2025 Germany’s Continental AG has reached a deal with former managers that will see their insurance pay damages between 40 million...
Volkswagen Loses Top Court Case Over Diesel Deal With Ex-CEO September 30, 2025 By Karin Matussek Volkswagen AG lost an appeals case in Germany’s highest civil court over the shareholders’ approval of a settlement with former...
Lenders Get Reprieve in UK Motor Finance Case From Top Court August 1, 2025 By Jonathan Browning, Lucca de Paoli and Upmanyu Trivedi A group of lenders won a major reprieve in a pivotal UK car finance case, after the country’s top judges...
HP Lost £730 Million After Buying Mike Lynch’s Autonomy, Judge Says July 22, 2025 By Jonathan Browning Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch’s firm Autonomy Corp., a London...
Czech Republic Hit by Major Power Outage Triggered by Fallen Cable July 7, 2025 By Jan Lopatka and Vera Dvorakova A power outage in large parts of the Czech Republic, including Prague, trapped people in public transport and lifts and...
Rio Tinto Reaches $138.75M Settlement With Investors Over Mongolian Mine June 20, 2025 By Clara Denina and Jonathan Stempel Rio Tinto agreed to pay $138.75 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the Anglo-Australian mining giant of defrauding investors...
Spain Reveals Details of Chain Reaction That Caused Outage June 19, 2025 By William Mathis and Thomas Gualtieri Spain’s most-detailed account yet of the missteps leading to April’s nationwide blackout failed to fully explain why the power grid...