Business

For many leaders, digital transformation has long been something to tackle when time allowed, after the next funding round, after the next product launch, after the next operational fire was put out. Marcin Pichur, Docuware,…

For many small businesses, workforce technology is like that. When it works properly, nobody notices it. When it doesn’t, it can quickly become the centre of the working day. And if you don’t have a…

The United Arab Emirates has announced it is to withdraw from Opec and the wider Opec+ alliance after nearly six decades of membership, in a move that analysts warn could herald the unravelling of the…

The Tony Blair Institute has called on ministers to pull an “emergency handbrake” on Britain’s runaway sickness benefits bill, urging Whitehall to strip cash entitlements from claimants with mild depression, ADHD and other conditions the…

The lurid purple shopfronts that ushered a generation of British teenagers into their first ear piercing have, quite literally, gone dark. Claire’s Accessories has confirmed the closure of all 154 of its standalone stores in…

British founders are being urged to think twice before accepting cheques from investors lured by tax breaks, after fresh analysis revealed that companies relying on the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and the Seed Enterprise Investment…

Lloyds Banking Group has cemented its position as the most complained-about name in British financial services, racking up more grievances with the City regulator than any other lender during the second half of 2025, as…

Santander has doubled the financial firepower it commits to the University of Sunderland each year, signing a renewed partnership agreement that will channel £100,000 annually into scholarships, bursaries and start-up grants until the 2026-2027 academic…

A British artificial intelligence company founded by one of the architects of fintech unicorn Tide has written to every Member of Parliament warning that the political debate over children’s smartphone use has descended into a…

Grosvenor, the property company controlled by the Duke of Westminster, has broken ground on a £40m repositioning of The Hive in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, in a move that takes the group’s directly managed flexible workspace…