Financial services was not part of the December 2020 EU-UK trade deal, but both sides signed a memorandum of understanding last year, pledging cooperation. But Brussels has paused any progress in the area as a wider dispute over Northern Ireland...
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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 08:26am 5th Dec 2025
Where is growth in the Budget?
Rachel Reeves and the government have missed a real opportunity to put our country on a growth trajectory in this Budget.
Why Britain’s middle class feels squeezed
- 04 Dec 2025
Rachel Reeves has pulled a staggering £66bn from the UK economy: £40bn in the October 2024 Budget, largely from businesses, and another £26bn in the November 2025 Budget, hitting workers, the wealthy and businesses to fund higher welfare spending...
The British government is reportedly looking for financial advisers to help them raise billions of pounds for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk, as it seeks to remove the involvement of China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN),...
Jaguar Land Rover has halted the delivery of its car sales into Russia amid the conflict in the Ukraine. It has cited 'trading challenges' as the reason for the suspension.
The UK tax authority has withdrawn petitions to close down four Liberty Steel companies, giving breathing space to the GFG Alliance metals empire presided over by Sanjeev Gupta. Gupta’s group of metals companies, including steel, aluminium and...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak presses Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the Group of Seven (G7) to go “faster and further” in support of Ukraine...
The non-bank finance company promoted by Hero MotoCorp, has become the first Indian company to raise a secured overnight financing rate (SOFR)-linked syndicated...
In a speech at the University of London's Bayes Business School, Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted that the ruling Conservative Party remains the party of...
Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), a business-process management firm, said that its subsidiary has won a contract from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)...
Nikhil Rathi, the incoming boss of the Financial Conduct Authority, was talking to MPs about the unpopularity that comes with overseeing more than 60,000 finance companies in the UK, ranging from Wall Street heavyweights to vets offering credit...
Banking giant HSBC has hiked its staff bonus pool by nearly a third, up from 2.7 billion US dollars (£2 billion) in 2020, while chief executive Noel Quinn picked up a total pay package of £9 million for 2021. The group has handed out a mammoth...
