Category: News

Competition and Markets Authority says competition in current accounts and small business lending is not working

The annual rate of inflation in the UK increased in June to 1.9 per cent, data released today by the Office for National Statistics showed.

Sixty per cent of UK SMEs are now experiencing late payments, with the average SME waiting for £38,186 in overdue payments.

Businesses are facing the risk of significant additional costs – potentially billions of pounds – and a threat to their very existence from tribunal cases challenging the normal calculation of holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations (WTR).

Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne has announced that he will step down after the current series of the hit BBC show due to ‘other business commitments’

On 10th July, the UK faces the largest one-day strike over pay by public sector workers since 2010. Up to a million local government workers, civil servants, teachers, passport staff, health workers and firefighters plan to strike.

The divergent attitudes between Britain’s large companies and small firms towards investment, despite widespread confidence in the economic recovery, is revealed in a series of reports released today.

Female entrepreneurs following in the footsteps of Jo Malone MBE, Hilary Devey CBE, Kelly Hoppen MBE and Cath Kidston MBE are being sought as the 2014 NatWest everywoman Awards open for entry.

As many as two thirds of Britons employed in workplaces where they have access to highly sensitive and confidential information have admitted that they use their mobile phones to update social media profiles whilst at their desk, according to new research.

British consumers exploit cheap car finance deals to buy models with lower running costs as sales rise 10.6% in first half of 2014

We’re much better off than we were in 1975 and each successive cohort has been better off.

House prices in London have jumped by the highest amount in 27 years, as the capital’s property market continues to pull away from the rest of the country.

Interest rates will not recover to their pre-crisis levels because “things have changed,” the Governor of the Bank of England said on Friday.

East Anglia’s leading enterprise agency is urging businesses in the region to access free, impartial support and funding of up to £25k.