Darktrace’s three year stay on the London stock market is set to end after the cybersecurity firm backed a £4 billion takeover by a US private equity firm.
The developments came as mining giant Anglo American said it had rejected BHP’s “opportunistic” £31 billion bid approach.
The FTSE 100 index, meanwhile, traded at a fresh record as NatWest shares surged on the back of a strong first quarter update.
