June 28 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The Times
- CAB Payments, a specialist in business-to-business emerging markets cross-border payments, has moved a step closer to listing in London after it announced it was aiming to clinch a valuation of about 850 million pounds ($1.08 billion) from a flotation.
- Britain and the European Union have signed a long-delayed agreement for post-Brexit regulatory co-operation on financial services.
- Britain's telecom regulator Ofcom has issued a warning to BT Group Chief Executive Philip Jansen over his comments that the group's Openreach network expansion would "end in tears" for rivals and has opened an investigation into its performance.
The Guardian
- CEO of British supermarket group Morrisons David Potts has admitted that supermarkets have increased profits at the petrol pumps as he was quizzed by British MP's alongside executives from Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda who denied they were making more money from keeping food prices high.
- Senior doctors in England have voted in overwhelming numbers to go on strike over pay for the first time in nearly 50 years, in an attempt to put pressure on ministers to reverse deep cuts to their salaries they have experienced since 2008.
The Telegraph
- Thames Water chief executive Sarah Bentley has quit as the company races to raise 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion)from its shareholders.
- More than 1.2 million savers will be forced to pay tax on their interest for the first time this year as a stealth raid by Britain Prime Rishi Sunak brings in billions of pounds for the Treasury.
Sky News
- The British government has begun drawing up contingency plans for the collapse of Thames Water amid growing doubts about the ability of Britain's biggest water company to service its 14 billion pound($17.84 billion) debt-pile.
($1 = 0.7847 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)