The UK government borrowed £18.3bn in August, according to the Office for National Statistics, which is £3.5bn more than the...
Finance
Business banking, lending, cash flow, investment and the financial decisions that keep companies running.
The UK ten-year gilt yield rose to 5.25% on 1 September. It has not been that high since 2008. The...
There were 53,756 UK businesses in critical financial distress in the second quarter of 2026, a rise of 9.0% on...
There is a particular kind of results day that is harder to interpret than a miss. Aviva delivered one in...
Roughly three-quarters of Britain's private sector businesses employ nobody at all. That single official statistic explains why a survey about...
The most revealing number in the latest research on late payment is not the size of the debt. It is...
Around 90,000 bankers, lawyers and accountants could work somewhere other than London by 2031. The same analysis says that is...
Funding Circle made more profit in six months than it made in the whole of last year. Pre-tax profit for...
Lloyds Banking Group reported a statutory profit before tax of £4.3 billion for the six months to 30 June 2026, against...
