Category: News

The number of information security breaches affecting UK businesses has decreased over the last year but the scale and cost of individual breaches has almost doubled.

The latest round of UK bank stress tests will check on the ability of lenders to withstand a major fall in house prices

Over one million small businesses across the country will be able to access significant savings with the new Employment Allowance, which came into force this April.

In a bid to help fast-track the government’s banking referral ambition, top funders have offered to place the alternativebusinessfunding.co.uk portal under neutral and independent management.

UK ad spend rose to £17.9bn last year and recovery is set to continue with a 5.5% increase this year and a 6.5% uplift in 2015

London firms’ optimism about the economy has soared to its highest level since the end of 2010.

Royal Bank of Scotland wanted to ask shareholder approval to pay bonuses twice the size of salaries

Government borrowing totalled £107.7bn in the fiscal year to end-March, just below the target outlined in last month’s budget.

Business optimism among manufacturers saw its sharpest improvement since 1973, on the back of strong growth in orders at home and abroad. That’s according to the latest CBI quarterly Industrial Trends Survey.

Despite positive news on the UK economy, the continuing culture of late payment remains a concern for many small businesses according to the latest research from the national small business group, the Forum of Private Business.

The Interest Rate Hedging Products scandal has not received anywhere near the level of coverage as the fallout from banks’ mis-selling of PPI policies, but that is largely because the full extent of the chaos caused by IRHPs is only slowly coming to light.

A report into Royal Bank of Scotland’s treatment of troubled small and medium sized companies has found no evidence the bank deliberately set out to defraud its own customers.

Employers are being urged to think carefully before turning to their payroll provider for auto enrolment assistance.

A new survey has revealed that one in five UK employees fear losing their job in the next six months.

Many young people are expressing an interest in having a business mentor when they first start out and a massive 40 per cent said they would want Lord Sugar to be their mentor.