The British finance ministry is moving forward with its plans to require regulators to consider the financial sector’s global competitiveness when writing rules. In line with regulators in many other countries, many in the country’s financial...
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24th Oct 2026 | Updated at 04:47pm 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.
UK's gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.2% in December - as many people worked from home and avoided Christmas socialising due to the Omicron coronavirus...
There are 79,620 homeowner mortgages in arrears of 2.5% or more of the outstanding mortgage balance, at the end of December 2021. This is 750 fewer mortgages when compared to the previous quarter.
QX Global Group, a Top 100 Business Process Outsourcing company, announced the acquisition of an 80% stake in Austin, Texas-based Chazey Partners, world-class management consulting and advisory firm specializing in business and digital transformation.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is battling for his survival amid a crisis which has gripped his government over three months, with a growing number of lawmakers...
Virtual worlds, where users’ life like 3D avatars can express themselves in a fuller range of human speech and gestures, present an even greater content-moderation challenge than the hundreds of millions of written posts and images that flow...
The Financial Reporting Council announced in January that it was investigating PwC’s audits of defence group Babcock over a four-year period. In the past...
Bosses of tech groups such as Checkout.com, Klarna and Graphcore were invited to Downing Street to meet City minister John Glen and officials to discuss the progress made in attracting founder-led tech companies.
The energy regulator Ofgem announced a £693 rise in its price cap, taking it to £1,971 from April.
The number of people experiencing food insecurity was one-fifth higher in January than six months previously, according to a survey that showed families in the UK were struggling to feed themselves even before the imminent squeeze on living...
