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Revealed: The auction of Poundland has been narrowed to former HMV owner Hilco and former Laura Ashley backer Gordon Brothers; Modella Capital, the buyer of WH Smith's high street arm, has been knocked out of the race to buy the struggling discounter. news.sky.com/story/wh-smith…

Exclusive: The final taxpayer-owned shares in NatWest Group are expected to be sold to private investors as soon as the middle of next week, crystallising a final loss to UK taxpayers of about £10.2bn, 17 years after the rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland. news.sky.com/story/british-…

Exclusive: Dovid Efune, the Telegraph suitor whose interest appears to have been thwarted by a £500m takeover led by RedBird Capital Partners, will publish an op-ed later today calling on the title’s stakeholders to rally in support of his ‘British’ offer. news.sky.com/story/thwarted…

Exclusive: The trio of private equity firms which own the AA, Britain's biggest breakdown recovery service, are lining up bankers from JP Morgan and Rothschild to steer the company towards an exit next year which is likely to value it at well over £4bn. news.sky.com/story/aa-owner…

Revealed: McWin Capital Partners, a backer of Gail’s bakeries and other foodservice businesses, is in exclusive talks to buy the fast-growing Flat Iron steakhouse chain, with fellow private equity firm TriSpan also part of the prospective winning offer. news.sky.com/story/gails-ba…

Revealed: Lord Rothermere, the Daily Mail proprietor, is to pay close to £35m for a near-10% stake in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph titles. The DMGT chief has enlisted Goldman Sachs to provide advice on the investment, which could be confirmed imminently. news.sky.com/story/daily-ma…

In my column for today's City A.M., why a future flotation of the AA would need to be priced to avoid another breakdown; Intertek's tactic to avert an investor pay revolt was novel - but it'll happen again; and the Telegraph's sale has turned a page at last. cityam.com/mark-kleinman-…

Revealed: Trussle, a digital mortgage broker which once secured investment from investors including Goldman Sachs, is being sold by its New York-listed parent company Better Home & Finance Trading Company to OneDome, a British property and fintech group. news.sky.com/story/onedome-…

Revealed: Rothesay, the specialist pensions insurer which has more than £70bn in assets under management, is vying with rival bidders to buy the 999-year lease to the O2, London’s best-known live entertainment arena, from Trinity College Cambridge. news.sky.com/story/pensions…

Revealed: The Treasury is expected to sell its last-remaining shares in NatWest Group - the bank (then known as RBS) rescued with £45.5bn of taxpayers’ money in 2008 - tomorrow, with a statement either later in the day or on Monday confirming the disposal. More on Sky News soon.

Exclusive: Dame Elizabeth Corley, the chair of asset manager Schroders, is to join the board of London Stock Exchange Group as a non-executive director, which may put her in a strong position to succeed Don Robert as LSEG’s chair in the coming years. LSEG declined to comment.

Exclusive: Dame Elizabeth Corley’s dual roles on the boards of asset manager Schroders and London Stock Exchange Group - with the latter to be confirmed today - may raise questions about potential conflicts of interest given their business relationships. news.sky.com/story/schroder…

Exclusive: The government is preparing to kick off a search for a successor to Lord Grade, the chairman of communications and media regulator Ofcom, with his replacement expected to take the helm at one of Britain’s top economic watchdogs next May. news.sky.com/story/minister…

Revealed: Tide, the SME lender which now has an 11% share of the UK market, has been in talks about an investment from Apis Partners, a backer of fintech companies in Europe, Africa and Asia, that would elevate it to the ranks of British unicorns. news.sky.com/story/sme-lend…

Exclusive: EQT Partners, one of Europe’s biggest private equity firms, is revving up an offer for WRC Promoter, the Red Bull-backed company which owns the commercial rights to the World Rally Championship. A sale could value it at close to £500m. news.sky.com/story/buyout-f…

Exclusive: The newly re-privatised NatWest Group will later name Solange Chamberlain as the new chief executive of its retail bank, days after the Treasury sold the last of its stake in the lender, ending 17 years of partial taxpayer ownership. news.sky.com/story/newly-re…

Revealed: The former BT Group chief executive Gavin Patterson is being lined up to chair Waves Audio, as the supplier to many of the world’s leading musicians prepares to launch a £300m London stock market flotation which could come as soon as next month. news.sky.com/story/ex-bt-ch…

Exclusive: KKR abandoned a £4bn rescue deal for Thames Water after Henry Kravis, one of the investment giant's co-founders, held weekend talks with Sir Keir Starmer's top business adviser; the deal's collapse leaves Thames relying on a bondholder bailout. news.sky.com/story/kkr-aban…

Revealed: Jingye, the Chinese owner of British Steel, has hired the law firm Linklaters to help it explore options for recouping its investment in the UK's second-biggest steel producer, two months after the government seized control of its operations. news.sky.com/story/chinese-…

EXCLUSIVE: Thames Water’s largest group of creditors is lining up Mike McTighe, the Openreach chairman, to spearhead a rescue deal which increasingly looks like the only alternative to the nationalisation of the UK’s biggest water utility. news.sky.com/story/thames-w…