Financial Planning

Thames Water and the regulator Ofwat have refused to be drawn on speculation fines will be cut in a bid to reduce the debt burdens facing the company and ultimately …

Rishi Sunak has pledged to scrap what he called “rip-off degrees” in favour of creating 100,000 more apprenticeships per year, in his latest general election policy announcement. The Prime Minister …

Lenders have been increasing their use of the Bank of England’s short-term lending facility over the past few weeks. Last week, investors borrowed over £16bn from the Bank’s short-term repo …

Hackney’s Labour transport councillor has denied a partnership between his charity and Lime constitutes a conflict of interest, ahead of a looming decision on whether the electric bike firm’s contract …

Small business support leaders have named access to finance, taxes, and sustainability support as some of their core areas of hope for pro-business policies ahead of the general election on …

Anglo American has rejected a request from BHP to extend a takeover deadline today in a move that could blow apart the potential mining mega-merger. After BHP requested an extension …

The FTSE 100 looked set to throw Ocado out of its shopping basket on Wednesday following a plunge in the value of the online retailer’s shares. Ocado’s valuation dropped from …

St James’s Place is expected to fall out of the FTSE 100 after ten years in London’s main index. The wealth manager, along with Ocado, is expected to be replaced …

Europe and the US’s top online food delivery companies have collectively lost over $20bn (£15.6bn) in operating losses over the past seven years as the stocks languish. Following the pandemic-induced …

A Cambridge-based firm that can extract gold and precious metals from old circuit boards for electronic devices is mulling an initial public offering. Bioscope Technologies, which uses micro-organisms to draw …