Bussiness

Standard Chartered arm takes stake in British fintech Algbra

Posted by April 14, 2024

An arm of Standard Chartered, the FTSE-100 bank, is taking a stake in a British company set up with the objective of providing ethical financial p

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‘As transparent as a brick wall’: British firms fight back…

Posted by April 14, 2024

As councils tighten their purse strings and strip services back to the basics amid a worsening local authority financial crisis, it is things such as flowerbeds

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‘It’s torn the town apart’: seaside shops rebel over ‘waste…

Posted by April 14, 2024

Business owners in Clevedon, a Somerset seaside town famous for its pier and independent shops, have split into two fiercely opposed camps in recent years.There

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Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult?

Posted by April 13, 2024

Last month, I went on a jungle safari with a difference. My aim was to discover how UK homeowners might slash through a thicket of advice to cut their energy bi

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The race to return Jaguar to its ‘roguish’ heyday

Posted by April 13, 2024

According to Glover, the resultant car – which will begin British road tests under camouflage in the coming weeks and months

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Grocery delivery giant Getir in talks about radical restructuring

Posted by April 13, 2024

Getir, one of the world's largest grocery delivery platforms, is in talks about a radical restructuring just two years after it was valued at near

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Brexit has saved Britain from Brussels’ worst blunder yet

Posted by April 13, 2024

It was hailed by its cheerleaders as the moment when the EU transformed itself into a genuine fiscal union, issuing its own bon

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UK growth uptick fuels hopes of recession exit

Posted by April 13, 2024

LONDON: Britain’s economy grew for the second straight month in February, official data showed on Friday, boosting recovery hopes after it fell into recession

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Bank of England forecasts undermined by out-of-date methods, report finds

Posted by April 12, 2024

The Bank of England’s recent record of forecasting inflation and the path of interest rates was undermined by out-of-date methods and a failure to communicate

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Ian King Business Podcast: GDP, motor finance and BP

Posted by April 12, 2024

Newly-released figures suggest the UK will be out of its technical recession early this year, following two quarters in a row of negative growth i

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‘It’s a sun trap’: climate crisis brings boomtime for British…

Posted by April 12, 2024

“We’ve never had frost here,” says Adrian Pike, gesturing across rows of vines just starting to show signs of tiny buds in the weak Kent spring sunshine.W

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Shrewsbury businesswoman set to walk down red carpet after UK…

Posted by April 12, 2024

Bianca Perrett, owner of the mobile business Enchanting Aesthetics in Shrewsbury, has been named as a finalist in the UK Hair and Beauty Awards.She has been sho

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