It’s not every day that a FTSE 100 boss tells you about her nightly hot flashes.

The antibody cocktail U.S. President Donald Trump credited for his swift coronavirus recovery won’t become widely available because it’s impossible to make enough for everyone who might need it,...

AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine looks like it’s headed for an additional global trial as the drugmaker tries to clear up uncertainty and confusion surrounding favorable results in its current...

The U.K. would run out of food by this time next year if a no-deal Brexit forced the nation to rely solely on its own produce, a farmers group warned.

Valneva SE plans to start final-phase trials on its Covid-19 vaccine candidate this month after positive early-stage studies, a step forward for an old-school shot that’s backed by the U.K. governm...

The Financial Times has hired Suzi Ring to be its legal correspondent. She has been at Bloomberg News covering health care since January 2020. Previously, Ring was an enforcements and investigations...

A series of unforced errors by the British pharma company has turned hope into hesitancy.

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The U.K. has signed agreements to buy 90 million doses of vaccines in development by drugmakers including Pfizer Inc., BioNTech SE and Valneva SE, joining countries around the world racing to secure...

European regulators started an accelerated review of a Covid-19 vaccine front-runner from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc in a sign the shot could be the first to seek approval in the...

Kweku Adoboli, a former UBS Group AG trader in London jailed in 2012 for causing a $2.3 billion loss at the bank, was detained Monday in preparation for deportation to his native Ghana, his spokesman...

Scientists identified a specific gene that doubles the risk of respiratory failure from Covid-19 and may go some way to explaining why some ethnic groups are more susceptible to severe disease than...

After decades of farming out government jobs, opposition to the idea is growing.

The retailer of Muji products is considering moving its European headquarters out of the U.K. because of Brexit, in what would be at least the second such shift by a Japanese company.

The European Union’s drugs regulator reiterated that the benefits of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid vaccine outweigh the risks as it urgently reviews safety data following the suspension of shots by a...

Nick Ephgrave drives fresh approach at Serious Fraud Office in bid to repair agency’s reputation

With potential recruits balking at 100-hour-plus weeks, banks are raising salaries in a race to attract grunts, er, “talent.”

Children have to get vaccinated for less urgent threats—and it works. So why not with Covid?

Ozempic and Wegovy have propelled Novo Nordisk to Europe’s second-most valuable company. Now it faces a struggle to keep up

Pascal Soriot inks his biggest takeover since joining U.K. drugmaker, downplays Astra-Oxford vaccine controversy

Valneva SE is looking at running a head-to-head trial with an approved Covid-19 vaccine for advanced tests of its own shot in the U.K., where the rapid rollout of immunizations could make it hard to...

Corporate reports from the U.K. give the clearest picture yet.

Johnson & Johnson will ship some Covid-19 vaccines ordered by the European Union to the U.S. for the last stage of production, raising concern among some member states that the bloc’s inoculation...

Fintech allegedly let funds flow from accounts restricted by the National Crime Agency

GSK’s Emma Walmsley is seeking to survive a challenge from Elliott Investment Management, the activist that no CEO wants to hear from.

A junior manager at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc had some unusual advice for colleagues involved in the bank’s troubled unit accused of mistreating small businesses that were struggling to pay...

Europe’s drugs regulator is meeting with four leading Covid-19 vaccine makers to discuss potential trials for shots targeting the fast-spreading omicron variant, the agency’s executive director said.

European regulators could approve the first vaccine against Covid-19 this year, after a flurry of trials by drugmakers leading the race showed promising results.

A new drug typically takes more than a decade to develop, at a cost of almost $3 billion. That’s because about 90% of experimental medicines fail during the various stages of chemical engineering, or...

U.K. lawmaker Bob Seely called for a parliamentary inquiry into the use of private polling data by some of the world’s biggest hedge funds betting on the 2016 European Union referendum.

A former Barclays trader fired over the misuse of an electronic trading program won a long-shot campaign to get a job back at the bank.

European Union governments are bracing for further possible delays in the distribution of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid vaccine after a warning from the European Commission that the manufacturer remains a...

Brussels can handle losing London, but it really wants to keep Rome.

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Men and women look back on the last five years.

Kate Bingham, the head of the U.K.’s Vaccine Taskforce, will step down from the role at the end of the year, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

Jason Furman and others write to Sunak in push to fend off industry requests for more leeway in appealing against enforcement

Discovery of emails on legacy system means evidence from two ‘significant witnesses’ will be held up

Four decades after her father bought Chateau Margaux, Corinne Mentzelopoulos has built the vineyard into a billion-dollar business.

A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc prevented a majority of people from getting the disease in a large trial, another promising development in the quest to...

It’s been dubbed flurona: when a person is infected with the influenza virus and the Covid-19 coronavirus, either simultaneously or back-to-back. Cases are being reported around the globe, and...

Valneva shot is Europe’s only inactivated vaccine in trials

The first Italian to test positive for the omicron variant had a negative test before his flight and moved around Italy for days before his diagnosis, showing the challenge authorities face in...

On the third floor of a glass skyscraper in London’s Aldgate district, a suite of rooms sit waiting to be used by a new European court 50 years in the making.

AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine won U.K. clearance, marking the first approval worldwide for a shot that will be key to mass immunizations despite continuing questions...

The European Union is closing in on a deal with Valneva SE to purchase its Covid-19 vaccine for the region after resurrecting talks abandoned earlier this year, according to people with knowledge of...

Fluency in ‘inglese farlocco’ has become necessary in Italy as hybrid words and off-kilter meanings proliferate

Today in Brexit: Theresa May has lived to fight another day, avoiding defeat in Parliament over her flagship Brexit bill, which transfers thousands of European Union laws into U.K. law. But the...

As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold of Europe, Britain’s already-stretched health system is preparing for the biggest threat it’s faced since it began caring for patients in 1948.

When he was questioned as part of a Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc bribery probe in 2014, Bhanu Choudhrie talked to his wife, Simrin, about the case and his feelings. She was by his side for “moral support...

The veteran editor reflects on magazines, sexism and why investigative journalism must be supported

Almost 10,000 people in the U.K. have been given an experimental Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, a key step toward finding a shot that will help control the...

UK groups voluntarily disclose violations in anticipation of reduced government penalties

Top female executives in the U.K. are nearing their male colleagues in pay since new rules for reporting compensation went into effect, yet the gap remains wider than the global average.

Operation Tabernula was eight years, and $20 million, in the making.

Companies facing the potential threat of tariffs and other trade barriers after Brexit are stepping up contingency planning, with some retailers creating new sites in continental Europe to avoid...

Valneva SE’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine elicited better immunity than AstraZeneca Plc’s shot in a clinical trial that will pave the way for regulatory submissions and sent the shares up as much as...

After decades of farming out government jobs, opposition to the idea is growing.

The U.K. Financial Reporting Council opened a probe into KPMG LLP’s audits of Carillion Plc, after the builder collapsed under a mountain of debt earlier this month.

Jason Furman and others write to Sunak in push to fend off industry requests for more leeway in appealing against enforcement

The story coming out of the City of London Police that afternoon was startling.

Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley faces a “significant” pay cut and a regulatory probe for trying to unmask an anonymous whistle-blower last year.

When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire. In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Amazon Unbound comes an...

The start of the coming year will be defined by the UK’s vaccination gap, but the issue is more complex than you think, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Christian Bittar was once among Deutsche Bank AG’s highest-paid traders, a math whiz who earned a near 90 million-pound ($126 million) bonus in 2008 alone. Now he’s sitting in a U.K. prison.

The crisis engulfing lender Greensill Capital is adding stress to the U.K.’s pandemic-strained medical system.

AstraZeneca Plc’s coronavirus shot could be ready for large-scale vaccinations as early as this year, Chief Executive Officer Pascal Soriot said, dismissing reports of delays and production snags.

He took on the sheriff of Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer. He jousted with an angry Congress. He contained scandals that, at times, reached into the bank’s innermost sanctums.

Theresa May sought to reassure U.K. business that a Brexit deal was just around the corner on a conference call with about 120 chief executives and officials from some of the world’s largest compan...

If messenger-RNA vaccines are the breakout medicine of the pandemic, then the tiny lipid spheres that bring them into people’s cells are the unsung heroes.

The first trials to deliberately infect people with the coronavirus to accelerate the development of vaccines could occur in the U.K. next year as part of an agreement reached by the government.

A former UBS Group compliance officer was charged by U.K. regulators with passing tips on five occasions to a London man who traded on the information, according to court records.