Vanquis Banking Group has swung to an annual loss and slashed its dividend after the specialist lender saw a jump in impairment charges following a profit warning for 2024 earlier…
A project to build a 500km electricity “superhighway” cable linking Scotland and Yorkshire is to receive £3.4bn in funding, Ofgem has announced. The Eastern Green Link 2, hailed as the…
Pan-African financial services group Old Mutual have seen profits surge 35 per cent last year due to “exceptional sales growth”. The London-listed group, which is Africa’s largest insurer by assets, revealed that profits totalled…
Endeavour Mining, the gold outfit which gave former boss Sebastian de Montessus his marching orders earlier this year after identifying unknown payments in the accounts, has this morning said the…
The BBC director-general’s announcement that the broadcaster will launch “two new brands” has sparked criticism of its “overreach” and “assault on commercial journalism”. Speaking at the Royal Television Society on…
Although the word ‘alcoholic’ may conjure a particular stereotypical image, professional middle-aged women in their 40s and 50s are being highlighted as being more prone to addiction. British women are…
Barracking the Garrick for excluding women isn’t exactly clubbable – how about some healthy competition instead? Asks James Price Is the male-only Garrick Club a posh creche for old dinosaurs…
With the public sector no more efficient than it was in the late 1990s, it’s time to start seriously scrutinising our public services, writes Paul Ormerod There’s no shortage of…
Angry investors in Aim-listed Bidstack are preparing regulatory complaints and plotting legal action after the company’s top brass bought the firm out of administration last week. Bidstack, which sells in-game…
Sadiq Khan has pledged to get 1,300 more neighbourhood police officers, PCSOs and special constables on London’s streets, if he is reelected to City Hall. The Labour mayor, who is…