Rachel Reeves is about to make pension saving a bit more expensive. The chancellor’s planning to cap salary sacrifice schemes in her November Budget—a move that could raise £2bn a year but leave workers and employers footing the bill.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly eyeing a significant hike to dividend tax rates in this year’s Budget, and investors aren’t going to like it.

The UK labour market just handed the Bank of England exactly what it needed to justify another interest rate cut.

Your Friday night pint might be about to get pricier. Again. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering another alcohol duty increase—this time by 4.5%—to help plug a £30bn budget hole.

What if your bank could send money to someone else’s bank instantly, at 3am on a Sunday, without using SWIFT? That’s the reality JPMorgan and DBS Bank are building. The two financial giants are developing an interoperability framework that’ll let institutional clients move tokenised deposits across different blockchain networks in real time.

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Rightmove just wiped £1bn off its market value in a single morning. The culprit? A hefty £60m AI spending spree that’s got investors running for the hills.

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UK investors are hitting the exit button on equities—and fast. A record-breaking £7.3bn fled equity funds in the four months to the end of October, with £3.6bn vanishing in October alone. What’s driving this mass exodus?

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