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Serious Fraud Office admits it threw £12m at failed prosecution of senior Barclays bankers By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 13 March 2020 | Updated: 09:36 GMT, 14 March 2020 The Serious Fraud Office has admitted it spent £12.2million on its failed prosecution of senior Barclays bankers – up to £3million … Read more
Banks withdraw savings accounts after base rate is slashed to a joint record low of 0.25% By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 13 March 2020 | Updated: 09:18 GMT, 14 March 2020 Banks and building societies have rushed to pull more than 25 savings accounts, dealing another blow to long-suffering savers. … Read more
Banks withdraw savings accounts after base rate is slashed to a joint record low of 0.25% By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 13 March 2020 | Updated: 21:59 GMT, 13 March 2020 Banks and building societies have rushed to pull more than 25 savings accounts, dealing another blow to long-suffering savers. … Read more
ECB fires a blank: Shares go further into freefall after Lagarde says ‘non’ to rate cut By Ruth Sunderland Business Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 23:07 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 00:24 GMT, 13 March 2020 Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, dashed hopes of an interest rate cut to fight … Read more
The Student Loans Company has a £28.5million pot of money belonging to university graduates which they can claim hundreds of pounds from. Between 2009-10 and 2017-18, the Government body in charge of student finance took £308million more in repayments than it should have, according to reports. While the SLC said it had contacted everyone due … Read more
In his first Budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak today announced a wave of coronavirus-battling measures It was a Budget that was supposed to be about the Boris Bounce, but instead the Chancellor ended up trying to contain coronavirus. Battling the effects of a coronavirus outbreak and the UK’s attempts to stop it … Read more
Rishi Sunak has launched a £175billion productivity revolution to push through the Government’s agenda to ‘level up’ the economy. The Chancellor claimed to have received unprecedented backing from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for his huge increase in public investment over the next five years. Delivering his Budget, he said: ‘The OBR has … Read more
Chancellor’s £32bn hit for big business as tax cut is cancelled to free up cash for the coronavirus fightback By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:08 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 22:08 GMT, 11 March 2020 There was a sting in the tail for British businesses as large corporations were told to … Read more
Bank fires up £290bn virus fighting fund: Interest rates are cut to record low of 0.25% By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 March 2020 The Bank of England led a double-barrelled response to the coronavirus crisis as it unveiled an emergency package to … Read more
BUDGET 2020 LIVE: The latest analysis, reaction and verdicts on the Chancellor’s speech – and what it means for you Rishi Sunak delivers his maiden Budget speech at 12.30pm Base rate has been cut to 0.25% today as coronavirus stock market panic bites Follow the latest build-up, the speech itself and the aftermath with our … Read more