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Vistry faces fresh supplier pressure after credit insurance limits changed. Allianz Trade is reducing some cover on new transactions, potentially tightening payment terms as the housebuilder works to strengthen cash generation and deliver a year-end net cash position above £100m.
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Swiss Re says European heat mortality risk remains underestimated today. The reinsurer’s warning shifts the climate discussion towards life-and-health exposure, workforce resilience, and risk modelling as extreme temperatures drive thousands of excess deaths.
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Thames Water faces another complication in its planned financial rescue. The utility missed a statutory pension-valuation deadline, creating potential regulatory and funding consequences as it works to recapitalise a business carrying close to £20bn of debt.
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OpenAI’s NextSlide acquisition pushes ChatGPT deeper into workplace productivity software. The presentation startup’s team has joined OpenAI as competition intensifies around AI tools that can turn business inputs into finished work.
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Keepit has launched a new data platform for enterprise AI. AI Truth Cloud combines immutable backup, AI asset recovery, isolated testing, and data-governance capabilities as organisations seek stronger controls around the information used by increasingly autonomous systems.
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Spain has temporarily restored border checks on passengers from Italy. The 30-day measure covers air and maritime arrivals, creating additional mobility friction inside Schengen while excluding most freight and preserving EU free-movement rights.
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DPD agency-worker records have raised questions over employment compliance standards. Internal cost documents reportedly omit separate sick-pay and pension entries for thousands of temporary workers, while DPD says its suppliers are contractually required and commercially able to meet statutory obligations.
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Delfin’s succession structure is constraining decisions across Italian corporate power. Eight equal family stakes, supermajority voting thresholds, and a stalled €10bn buyout attempt are limiting strategic flexibility across a €55bn portfolio of influential holdings.
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Banks face rising technology concentration risks as AI adoption accelerates. Moody’s says dependence on a small number of model and cloud providers could create common points of failure as artificial intelligence moves deeper into financial operations.
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Chinese electric vehicle brands are gaining ground across European markets. Their battery-electric share reached 14.2% during the first five months of 2026, while the UK accounted for a quarter of Chinese-brand sales across western Europe’s largest markets.