Stefan Hoops, a protégé of Christian Sewing, Deutsche chief executive, will take over from Asoka Wöhrmann next week, inheriting a business being investigated by US and German authorities after a whistleblower accused DWS of misrepresenting how...
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24th Oct 2026 | Updated at 12:21pm 24th Oct 2026
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.
Centrica's facility in Yorkshire was mothballed in 2017 when the government refused to subsidise it. The government may now be prepared to contribute to...
Leaders of the EU’s 27 member states have now agreed to ban seaborne Russian oil imports. To placate landlocked countries such as Hungary, pipeline shipments...
Shell, a British multinational oil and gas company, is now in talks with a consortium of Indian energy companies to sell its stake in a major liquefied natural gas plant in Russia which the British company abandoned following Moscow’s invasion...
The Bank of England is one of the few central banks to have conducted climate stress tests, alongside the European Central Bank and Banque de France.
High wholesale prices have led to a surge in energy costs for consumers and businesses across Europe, but the pressures faced by UK consumers have been particularly acute. Energy suppliers complain that they, too, have been hit by this year’s...
British real estate portal Zoopla said that after skyrocketing, the house prices have started to slow down. Data from the property portal showed that average house prices in April hit £250,200, marking an annual inflation rate of 8.4% compared...
The proposals by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would mean scrapping the current two-tier system, where firms decide whether to follow looser rules of a so-called standard listing, or the more rigorous standards of a premium listing....
The consumer prices index rose by 9 per cent in the 12 months to April, meaning that welfare recipients and pensioners face a real-terms cut this year after their payments increased by only 3.1 per cent. Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, said the...
The British health and beauty chain has been put up for sale by Walgreens Boots Alliance after the US parent indicated that it wanted to focus on the American...
