YOUR FIRST HOME

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.

From ‘nonsense idea’ to £42m: Mother-son duo build women’s health brand

A women’s health and nutrition business whose founders were once laughed out of investor meetings has grown into a £42 million company, with ambitions to more than double sales within two years.

A UK regulator has banned three bond traders and fined them a total of almost £600,000 for “market manipulation” six years ago when they were employed by the UK-based subsidiary of Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group.

Microsoft has agreed to buy a £1.5 bn stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of a 10-year strategic partnership between the US software company and the 300-year-old UK exchange.

The UK's financial services sector must do more to “break the ‘class’ ceiling,” according to a government-backed task force, with new targets calling for at least half of senior leaders to come from working-class or lower socio-economic backgrounds...



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