Seven & i Holdings has ended months of stonewalling and begun negotiations with Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard over a $47bn takeover bid for the 7-Eleven store owner, just as it received a rival ...

Thames Water has received approval from more than three-quarters of its top-ranking lenders to take out a new loan of up to £3bn and make other adjustments to its debt that will avert a cash crunch ...