Revealed: DMGT's discussions with NatWest Group about helping to finance its £500m takeover of The Daily Telegraph will be a useful boost to Lord Rothermere's hopes of avoiding the kind of backlash against overseas capital which befell previous suitors.

Exclusive: The publisher of the Daily Mail, DMGT, is lining up NatWest Group to help finance its £500m takeover of The Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister title, as it aims to finalise a submission on the deal to Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary. More details on @SkyNews soon.

Exclusive: Bridgepoint is injecting millions of pounds of new funding into Burger King UK, the fast food giant which employs about 12,000 people in Britain, as part of a deal which extends its master franchise agreement with US-based RBI into the 2040s.

Exclusive: Richard Meddings, the former Standard Chartered finance chief who chaired NHS England until earlier this year, is among a small number of candidates being considered as the next chair of Prudential, the FTSE-100 financial services group.

Revealed: Gulf investors' voracious appetite for European football clubs will be underlined today when PSG-owner Qatar Sports Investments announces that it has struck a deal to acquire full control of KAS Eupen, a team in Belgium's Challenger Pro League.

Revealed: International Connections Group, a Blackpool-based provider of advertising services in Aston Martin dealerships and Mandarin Oriental hotels, has joined the crop of companies drawing up plans to list on the London Stock Exchange next year.

Revealed: The private equity backer of CloserStill Media, one of Britain's biggest organisers of trade shows, has picked bankers from Jefferies and The Raine Group to handle an auction of the business next year which is expected to value it at over £1bn.

EXCLUSIVE: Piers Morgan is raising tens of millions of pounds in funding to expand his Uncensored brand into a diverse global media business, with backing coming from investors including US-based merchant bank Raine at a valuation of close to £100m.

Exclusive: Bridgepoint, the private equity firm which owns Burger King UK, is exploring a takeover bid for Advanced Medical Solutions Group, a London-listed producer of specialist surgical products which has a market capitalisation of just over £450m.

Exclusive: yuv, a beauty technology company which recently secured investment on Dragons' Den at the richest-ever valuation for a start-up on the BBC show, will tomorrow announce a $12m (£8.9m) Series A funding round led by Sweden's Nineyards Equity.

Revealed: Christopher Williams, a veteran investment banker who advised the government on its rescue of Britain's biggest banks during the 2008 financial crisis, will this week be named chairman of Premier Miton, the London-listed asset management group.

Revealed: Some of the world's leading pharmaceuticals industry bosses are to be invited by the government to join a new working group to explore options for the future of medicines pricing in the wake of yesterday's agreement between the UK and US.

Exclusive: Directors of Thames Water will meet next week to decide whether to proceed with £2.5m of controversial retention payments to more than 20 senior managers amid intense scrutiny from MPs of the crisis-hit utility's finances and governance.

Exclusive: Blackstone is cooling on the prospect of a multibillion pound takeover bid for Big Yellow Group, the London-listed self-storage facilities operator, ahead of a Takeover Panel deadline for it to formalise its interest or walk away for six months.

Revealed: NatWest Group, the high street banking giant, is buying a minority stake in Bourn, an SME finance start-up founded last year which aims to resolve cashflow challenges faced by smaller businesses. The deal will be announced publicly tomorrow.

Exclusive: Modella Capital, the investor which has this year established itself as Britain's most prolific buyer of high street retailers, is in advanced talks to buy Wynsors World of Shoes, a chain with roughly 50 standalone shops across northern England.

Exclusive: Emma Lloyd, a senior executive at the streaming giant Netflix, is among the candidates shortlisted to replace Alex Mahon as chief executive of Channel 4, the state-owned broadcaster.

EXCLUSIVE: Ministers are lining up Evercore, the investment bank, to oversee a strategic review of the UK steel industry and taxpayers' exposure to it, months after the government moved to seize control of British Steel, the sector's second-biggest player.

Exclusive: Keystone Brewing Group, the company behind Black Sheep, Fourpure and Hofmeister, is on the brink of appointing administrators after a slide in sales triggered by weakening consumer confidence ahead of the Budget earlier this week.

Revealed: WTW's move to buy Cushon from NatWest Group comes in the same week that Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, hit salary sacrifice retirement schemes with a multibillion pound Budget tax raid, triggering outrage from the pensions industry.