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Peer-to-peer lender Zopa gets licence to launch challenger bank
Peer-to-peer lender Zopa has received a banking licence from the City watchdog as it aims to compete with high street stalwarts.
Thursday 5 November 2026
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Peer-to-peer lender Zopa has received a banking licence from the City watchdog as it aims to compete with high street stalwarts.
Britain’s construction sector expanded ahead of expectations in November, despite Brexit worries continuing to hold back business confi..
Sir Martin Sorrell’s marketing communications venture secured second acquisition after 150 million US dollar deal for US firm MightyHive
Wickes owner Travis Perkins is to offload its plumbing & heating division and extend cost-cutting programme as targets savings of £30 million
Southern Railway and Thameslink network GTR has been hit with sanctions that will see no profit this year and pay £15 million improvements
Plumbing supplier Ferguson has reported a rise in first-quarter revenue and profit, driven by growth in the US.
Powers given to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to tackle tax avoidance and evasion are “disproportionate” and undermine the rule of law.
There has been a five-fold increase in visits to a website from people seeking information about pension scams, following launch of campaign
Young people whose parents have property wealth are now nearly three times as likely to be home-owners by the age of 30 compared with t..
Nearly a third of people who took out debt to pay for last Christmas took up to seven months to clear what they owed, a survey…
A record £1 in every £3 of non-food purchases were made online in November. Aggressive promotional activity retailers pushed sales
Brexit: Ministers may have broken rules by not publishing legal advice - Speaker
The head of the City watchdog has denied he was under political pressure to ask banks to slow down the pace of their Brexit relocation ..
Mike Ashley has called for a new tax on revenues from online retailing to help revive ailing town centres.
The recruitment sector has a “critical role in helping the government to achieve its target of getting one million more disabled people in work as soon…