NatWest has reported a better-than-expected surge in half-year profits as the taxpayer-backed lender reels from the Nigel Farage de-banking debacle. At the end...
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British towns have lost 6,000 retail outlets over the past five years, though the vacancy rate has improved in some settings, figures show. The biggest 650...
Coutts chief executive Peter Flavel will stand down over his handling of Nigel Farage’s accounts. In a statement from the new NatWest chief executive, it...
The parent company of British Gas has revealed half-year profits for its UK household supply arm are up by almost 900%. Centrica said that underlying earnings...
Shell has revealed a big fall in the second quarter of its financial year, largely due to energy prices plunging from their Russia-Ukraine war peak. The oil...
Tech giant Meta is the latest company to beat Wall Street revenue expectations as the number of people using its platforms grew, but Metaverse losses mounted...
The Federal Reserve – the US central bank known as the Fed – has recommenced its programme of interest rate increases and has not ruled out further...
NatWest chief executive Dame Alison Rose has resigned after admitting to being the source of an inaccurate story about Nigel Farage’s bank account. Her...
Jeremy Hunt has said he has “significant concerns” about how NatWest’s chief executive handled the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank...
Microsoft has beaten Wall Street expectations, posting better than expected revenues as its cloud computing and office software business grew amid increasing...
NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has admitted she made a “serious error of judgement” when she discussed Nigel Farage’s Coutts bank accounts...
City AM, the London-based business newspaper, is close to calling in administrators after a weeks-long search for a buyer failed to produce a solvent deal. Sky...
The company behind many popular consumer brands including Marmite and Magnum ice creams has revealed a surge in profits, as the UK’s competition...
British mobile operator Virgin Media O2 has announced plans to lay off up to 2,000 employees by the end of the year. The telecoms giant reportedly started to...
The BBC has issued an apology to Nigel Farage over a story on the closure of his Coutts bank account, “which turned out not to be accurate”. In a...
Raging wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes have sparked the evacuation of around 2,000 tourists from its resorts. The Greek government said it had...
