Greenlight Financial Technology Inc, whose products include an app for parents to help teach financial responsibility to kids, said on Thursday it raised $215 million in its latest funding round, valuing the company at $1.2 billion.

Toshiba Corp's top investor has called for an investigation of a botched meeting in July at which it says several shareholders were deprived of their vote, a letter to the Japanese conglomerate's board seen by Reuters shows.

A court in Braunschweig, Germany, said on Thursday it had opened proceedings against former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn, examining whether he is guilty of market manipulation as part of the carmaker's emissions scandal.

The European Union on Thursday presented plans to expand and bolster its capital market to help reboot companies hit by the coronavirus and reduce the bloc's reliance on the City of London after Brexit.

UBS Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti joined other banking executives on Tuesday in declaring consolidation of the European sector "inevitable", declining comment on whether Switzerland's biggest bank plans to participate.

Wells Fargo & Co and data aggregator Envestnet Yodlee said on Thursday they had signed a data exchange agreement, the latest move in an ongoing tug of war between fintechs and large banks over information sharing.

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Lease said on Thursday it would buy smaller rival Hitachi Capital Corp in a deal calculated at 294 billion yen ($2.8 billion).

SIG Plc reported a first-half loss of 53.7 million pounds ($68.24 million) on Thursday due to the coronavirus hit to construction activity, but the building materials supplier said its 2020 revenue would fall lesser than previously feared.

JPMorgan Chase & Co is set to pay nearly $1 billion to resolve market manipulation investigations by U.S. authorities into its trading of metals futures and Treasury securities, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

Australia's Westpac Banking Corp agreed on Thursday to pay a record A$1.3 billion ($920 million) fine to settle a lawsuit accusing it of enabling millions of payments to people exploiting children, closing off its darkest chapter.