British clothing retailer Karen Millen has bought parts of the Coast fashion brand, which has gone into administration, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said on Thursday, Reuters reported. Mike Denny, joint administrator and PwC director, said 24 Coast retail stores were not included in the sale to Karen Millen and would thus result in job cuts. PwC said Karen Millen has retained 600 jobs at Coast.

The owner of Britain’s Patisserie Valerie café chain warned on Thursday that it is in danger of collapse if it cannot urgently raise capital after discovering a potential accounting fraud, Reuters reported. Patisserie Holdings said an investigation had found a “material shortfall” between the reported accounts of the London-listed company and its true financial health. “Without an immediate injection of capital, the directors are of the view that there is no scope for the business to continue trading in its current form,” it said in a statement.

The Bank of England and the financial services industry on Tuesday pressed the EU to urgently tackle legal uncertainty surrounding vast amounts of derivatives because of Brexit, the Financial Times reported. Calling for “timely action” by EU authorities, the BoE’s Financial Policy Committee said if the UK crashed out of the bloc without a withdrawal agreement it risked rendering void £41tn of derivatives.

Shares in peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle traded as much as 24 per cent below their initial public offering price on their first day of trading, in a blow to aspirational fintech companies hoping to float, the Financial Times reported. At their low of the day, the company’s shares hit 334.5p, down from the IPO price of 440p. During conditional dealings on Tuesday, ahead of their official London Stock Exchange debut, the shares had been trading at a steep discount to the offer price, closing down 17 per cent at 364p, according to data from Refinitiv.

The City is bracing itself for an uncertain six months in the run-up to the UK’s departure from the European Union, the Financial Times reported. Operators of the crucial market infrastructure that ensures that money flows around the world — from exchanges, and fixed income markets to clearing and settlement houses — are activating their plans for life outside the EU. Some of London’s biggest markets operators, such as TP ICAP, Thomson Reuters, Cboe Europe and Turquoise are setting up hubs in Europe, centred on Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.

Outsourcing firm Mitie Group Plc said on Monday it would sell its pest control business to Rentokil Initial Plc for 40 million pounds cash, as it looks to focus on its core businesses as part of a restructuring, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. The company, which provides cleaning, security and healthcare services, has been restructuring after a string of profit warnings, which it has blamed on rising costs and Brexit uncertainty.

Shares of Avocet Mining dropped more than 17 percent on Monday after warning that it could be broken up as the struggling gold miner continues talks with its largest shareholder, Elliott Management, to restructure its debt, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. The company, which debuted on the London Stock Exchange in 2007 at 1,200 pence a share, has lost nearly all of its value and was trading at 9.9 pence. The stock was the largest percentage loser on the exchange.

Mitie’s shares fell as much as 8 percent on Wednesday after the British outsourcing group said it expects flat to lower operating profit and higher debt in the first half of the year, largely due to increased technology costs, Reuters reported. Mitie, which provides engineering, security and cleaning services to clients including Sainsbury’s, Vodafone and Rolls-Royce, is focused on technology investment and employee retention in a turnaround plan.

Britain's largest private healthcare group, BMI Healthcare, is nearing a 2 billion pounds restructuring deal that could cut millions of pounds from its annual rent bill, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. An announcement under which BMI's rent bill will be cut by about 60 million pounds is likely to be made imminently, the source told Reuters.

The British government will step in to bail out a 335 million pound new hospital in the city of Liverpool, after the collapse of Carillion, which was overseeing the deal, Sky News reported on Monday. An announcement by ministers on the termination of the Royal Liverpool Hospital private finance initiative deal and taking it into full public ownership is expected to be made within days, Sky said.