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Customers of the PayAsUGym on-demand work out service have been warned to cancel their credit cards and change their passwords after it was revealed the site had suffered a cyber attack.

More businesses are struggling to pay their tax bills, as the amount of overdue corporation tax owed to the taxman continues to rise.

Anyone who buys a drone in future in the UK may have to register it and take a safety test. That could be the outcome of a government consultation on strict new drone safety rules. The BBC reports that there could also be tougher penalties for anyone who flies a drone in a no-fly zone, […]

Committee proposes ‘nuclear deterrent’ to stop companies trying to avoid responsibilities to pension schemes

The London Stock Exchange Group has entered exclusive discussions with rival Euronext over the sale of its French clearing business.

Banks could appeal to the European Court of Justice on the basis that they have a right to ‘legal certainty’.

Lloyds Banking Group is to buy consumer credit card business MBNA from Bank of America in a £1.9bn deal.

The UK’s banks are still vulnerable to a “toxic cocktail” of risks for which the taxpayer may have to foot the bill, according to the head of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC).

Dublin government argues it should be allowed to choose how much it levies on foreign companies.

Britain’s science and technology industries are expected to lead another leap in hiring next year, in another vote of confidence in the economy following the Brexit vote, according to the Confederation of British Industry.

Thousands of workers will launch a wave of strikes this week, hitting postal services, rail companies and airlines in the run-up to Christmas.

A top group of MPs has made fresh demands that Sir Philip Green dig deep to plug the gap in BHS’ pension fund as new figures reveal the magnitude of the shortfall.

Pharmaceutical firm challenged over price rise for hydrocortisone tablets from 70p to £88 per tablet, costing NHS tens of millions of pounds extra each year.

Tesco’s former commercial boss Kevin Grace has been told that he will not face charges from the Serious Fraud Office over the £326m accounting scandal that threw the supermarket into crisis and cost him his job.

Banks must do more to tackle scams where people are tricked into transferring money to a fraudster, the regulator has said.