Hunt overrules Bank of England to push ahead with plans for Big Bang 2.0
He added: “Phoenix plans to invest £40bn to £50bn in illiquid assets and sustainable investments over the next five years...
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Bank of England is ‘dragging its feet’ on cutting EU red tape
The PRA last week launched its latest consultation on reducing the burden around reporting and administrative requirements for Solvency 2. ...
How Britain’s electric car revolution took a wrong turn
“We recently launched our first home battery, and while we’re excited about the product, we would have preferred to source...
Working from home with poor broadband ‘costs the UK economy billions of pounds’
People working from home with poor broadband have cost the economy billions, new research has found. Digital disruption costs the...
Homeowners turn to 35-year mortgages
The average two-year fixed mortgage rate was 6.45pc on Friday, up from 2.34pc at the beginning of December 2021. The...
NHS will cease to exist if we only ever throw taxpayers’ money at it, warns Labour
Labour has warned that ministers cannot keep just throwing “ever increasing taxpayers’ money” at the NHS, as the party called...
First-time buyers need to quadruple deposits to beat mortgage mayhem
First-time buyers must now quadruple their deposits to get onto the housing ladder as mortgage rates stick at 6.5pc, new...
‘Will we be ready by 2030 to ban petrol engines? That’s not a long time off’
Rees-Mogg, who was leading a review of public bodies before his promotion to run the business department last September, also...
How to invest when the dollar is king
Some of the steepest declines in equity markets this year have come from the US market, particularly in growth sectors...
Nurses could quit NHS to make more money assessing people for benefits, experts warn as strike looms
Nurses could leave the NHS to make more money assessing people’s eligibility for benefits, experts warn, as 300,000 of them...
