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...
Is Britain on the Cusp of Another Multibillion-Pound Consumer Finance Scandal? April 2, 2025 By Sinead Cruise The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will on Tuesday hear arguments to overturn a judgment that could cost Britain’s...
UK Supreme Court Starts Motor Finance Case With Billions on the Line April 1, 2025 By Jonathan Browning and Adelaide Changole A fight over UK motor finance and whether lenders should be on the hook for billions of pounds in compensation...