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Discount matching ‘undermined profits’

John Lewis’s Charlie Mayfield tells the BBC matching rivals’ deep discounting wiped out profits.

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Barclay’s Bob Diamond says banks ‘must take risks’

In a wide-ranging interview Bob Diamond talks of risk, market rigging and why RBS is worse than Barclays.

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Sam Morgan: The 17-year-old dressing football’s biggest names

Sam Morgan is 17 and a personal shopper for some of football’s biggest names, including Paul Pogba, and Kevin de Bruyne.

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Why the shock of 2008 still matters today

Ten years ago the collapse of an American investment bank changed British life forever.

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The UK’s growing tech trade ties with Israel

As the UK looks at developing more trade deals outside the EU after Brexit, its increasing ties with Israel could provide the model.

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‘I wanted to set up the antithesis of Lehmans’

Three former Lehman workers recall the bank going bust 10 years ago and how they’ve used their experiences to set up their own companies.

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Was 2008 the worst time to graduate?

Around 1.5m students graduated from US universities just as the financial crash upended the economy.

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Apple iPhone XS unveiled alongside fall-detecting Watch

Three new iPhone models are revealed plus a fall-detecting smartwatch.

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Which universities will really impress the boss?

Which is the best university name in the world to put on a job application?

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Who’s winning the race to offer superfast 5G?

China, the US and the UK are all vying to dominate the market for next-generation mobile networks.