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English Premiership team Wasps has hailed the success of a retail bond scheme it recently launched on the London Stock Exchange, with the rugby union club having reached its maximum target of £35m (€47.1m/$53.4m).

English Premiership team Wasps has today (Monday) launched a retail bond on the London Stock Exchange as it continues its bid to become the biggest revenue-generating club in rugby union.

English rugby union’s top tier club competition the Premiership will hold talks over plans to expand to 14 teams through temporarily suspending promotion and relegation.

English rugby union clubs in the country’s top-tier Premiership will propose an expanded competition for the start of the 2016-17 season without promotion or relegation, according to the Telegraph.

Premiership team London Welsh has said it is prepared to take legal action over the uneven distribution of funds in English rugby union’s top division.

English Premiership rugby union team Saracens has called for the league to scrap its salary cap to ensure its teams remain competitive among Europe’s elite.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU), the governing body of rugby union in England, and the sport’s top-tier Premiership in the country, have reached an agreement over scheduling the domestic tournament around the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Senior figures at the English Premiership are reported to be confident that plans to change the club rugby union competition’s salary cap to allow for larger wages will be agreed this week.

Elisha Chauhan questions whether English rugby union’s top flight will sink or swim if it decides to play games in the United States.

English Premiership rugby union teams London Irish, Saracens and Leicester Tigers are considering playing competitive matches in the United States, according to The Times newspaper.

Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief executive Ian Ritchie has questioned the compensation figure sought by English Premiership clubs with regards to England’s staging of the 2015 Rugby World Cup, pointing out that they stand to benefit from a home tournament.

English top-tier Premiership rugby union clubs have confirmed they will refuse to participate in a revamped Heineken Cup European competition next season.

The Rugby Expo Awards has crowned American insurance firm AIG as rugby union sponsor of the year at for its work with the world champion New Zealand All Blacks.

English Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty has revealed 30 of the 38 ERC (European Rugby Cup) clubs are ready to proceed with a breakaway competition, along with another two proposed clubs from Europe's emerging rugby union nations.

The ERC (European Rugby Cup) board has confirmed Milan’s San Siro stadium as host of the Heineken Cup 2015 final.