Business

Nationwide Building Society has agreed terms for a takeover of Virgin Money in a £2.9bn deal that would create a larger rival to the...

The chancellor has unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points: • National insurance contributions for employees are being cut from 10%...

National insurance has been cut by a further 2p, so workers will pay 8% of their earnings between £12,570 and £50,270, instead of the...

The Coventry Building Society has enlisted the Wall Street behemoth JP Morgan to strengthen its proposed takeover of the Co-operative Bank. Sky News has...

Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader, has fired a fresh salvo at the chancellor’s plans to offload a chunk of the government’s stake in...

Young drivers with automatic-only licences face paying £760 more for car insurance than those who can also drive a manual vehicle, according to new...

Jeremy Hunt has promised to help families with “permanent cuts” in tax ahead of today’s budget. The chancellor, who is expected to announce a...

Graduates in their 20s are earning less in real terms than they were before the 2008 financial crash, and are £1,200 worse off than...

Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads suffered widespread problems on Tuesday afternoon, with users locked out of their accounts and pages failing to load properly. ...

Rishi Sunak has declined to say whether he has confidence in the chief executive of the crisis-hit Post Office, Nick Read, following confirmation of...

Labour will inherit the worst economic situation of any incoming government since the Second World War, Rachel Reeves warned today, accusing the Conservative Party...

How many pairs of cufflinks could £1bn buy? That was the question being asked by City wags after that sum of money was wiped...

Bitcoin has hit $60,000 for the first time since November 2021 – putting the cryptocurrency in touching distance of a new record high. One...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede, the former chancellor, is to take on the chairmanship of Railsr, a British-based fintech which was last year rescued from...

MPs have raised concerns over the treatment of small businesses by major banks after figures showed more than 140,000 accounts were shut down by...

The ousted Post Office chairman has insisted it was the company’s current chief executive who was the subject of an internal investigation, not him....

Former sub-postmaster and lead campaigner Alan Bates has called for the Post Office to be sold to the likes of Amazon for £1 as...

Jeremy Hunt has held talks with the boss of Shein, the Chinese-founded fast fashion giant, in a bid to persuade the company to commit...

The investment firm which owns Waterstones has returned with a second offer for Currys, the electrical goods chain, amid investor hopes of a rare...