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The business groups’ big ideas, from payroll savings schemes to making big tech compensate for fraud on its platforms

Group wants big tech social media firms to pay up to £40m a year to reimburse customers after years of shouldering cost of fraud

Disclosure of the identities of firms under investigation by FCA could be in the public interest

The prospect of home loan rates staying high for longer is not the tonic for lenders’ financial results it once was

Fellow peers were left struggling to work out if he was joking or not...

Chancellor hints at tax-free plan for budget as part of efforts to revive country’s stock market

Charity set up by Martin Lewis says up to 1.3m people forced to cut back on food, energy and even medicine

Around 5 million households have seen their mortgage interest rate change since the Bank of England base rate started to rise in late 2021. Over the course of the 2023 alone, the base rate increased from 3.5% to 5.25%, surpassing economists’ expectations and pushing mortgage rates to the highest levels…

But potential cuts to interest rates, as well as lower house prices in some locations, could provide house hunters with new opportunities.