The government has said a third of all board seats at Britain's biggest companies should be held by women by 2020, raising its bar of 25 per cent by 2015
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24th Oct 2026 | Updated at 08:44am 24th Oct 2026
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For many aspiring homeowners, the biggest obstacle to buying a property is not necessarily earning enough to cover the monthly mortgage payments. It is finding the money for a deposit in the first place.
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The steel industry in the UK is currently in crisis. They plan to talk with Chancellors regarding the pledges they had made in order to help hard-pressed...
Principal trustee of a charity has been sentenced after investigation by the HM Revenue and Customs for attempting to steal over £37,000 in false claims for Gift Aid tax relief.
Some of India's largest banks are now being forced to provide hundreds of millions of pounds to capitalise new UK subsidiaries that the Bank of England had asked to set up to house their consumer-facing activities.
The Financial Policy Committee, led by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, has warned that the buy-to-let market poses an increasing threat to financial stability of the country because rising property prices expose vulnerabilities that could...
Navinder Sarao, the trader accused of manipulating the markets ahead of the “flash crash” in 2010, may not face extradition hearing until February after...
The BT has hired 1,000 people and pledged to handle 80 per cent of all calls in Britain by the end of next year and eventually stop using Indian centres altogether.
According to a report issued by the Bank of England, at least half of all UK banknotes in circulation are held overseas or used in the black market.
"India will give better returns than many other countries," finance minister Arun Jaitley said while addressing investors and business leaders in Hong Kong.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the productivity of British workers have fallen behind their counterparts in France, Germany, the United States and Canada last year.
