The ECB’s asset purchases are vital to the stability of the eurozone

Alternative providers fear it will harm competition in market for loans to small business

Deka Investment urges chairman to act quickly to end crisis of confidence in payments group after special audit

Commission warns pandemic will wipe out growth in all member states and result in an uneven recovery

Insurer is well placed to manage pandemic-related losses

Company pledges two ships and two islands as collateral in upsized refinancing plan

Coveted top-quality rating hanging by a thread as Moody’s decision looms

Two- and five-year yields hit record lows as futures investors anticipate negative rates

With no productive use of liquidity, money is going into market speculation driving recovery in asset prices

Companies are seeking to tap whatever sources of affordable funding are available

Price wars and coronavirus have disrupted the sector, possibly moving peak demand even closer 

Latest proposal accused of being misleading over environmental risk

Promises of huge growth are yet to materialise — but there’s huge potential

A new exchange traded commodity holds several advantages

Scottish Power has launched a new energy plan that allows customers to fix their bills

NetSaver easy access account pays 3.16 per cent on savings

Pension funds need to spend less time on ESG and get back to basics

As numbers and statistics come to the fore, can we boost national numeracy?

UK-based education company is still more value trap than takeover candidate

Tickets website has to navigate an overhaul of UK rail’s supporting infrastructure

Production costs to rise by 61% when industry invests in carbon capture

Shares in security software maker dropped sharply after revelations of data harvesting

Loss would be a blow to London market and unpalatable to some UK-based fund managers

Smart meter group’s IPO boosts hopes of fundraising uptick after lacklustre 2019

Music royalties specialist has done well in a strong market for alt investment trusts

Listed businesses have been conspicuously slow in estimating disruption to operations

Market is full of cautionary tales about investors betting on familiar stocks

Spanish and Italian bans on short selling follow US Federal Reserve’s liquidity injection

Competitive landscape is unclear as food delivery becomes a utility

The default product of anxious idleness has been sidelined during pandemic

Brazilian prosecutors also accuse miner and safety group of environmental crimes

Investor group led by the CofE launches database to track tailings dams after Brazil disaster

Young people may face many challenges, but they also have many wealth creation opportunities

As interest rates fall, more savings banks rely on the lure of cash prizes

Advisers warn the widening landscape is confusing investors and preventing people from saving

Puny interest rates have dented the tax sheltering properties of cash Isas for most 

Surprise measures on pensions and investing for children lay in the chancellor’s red box

How to navigate government help schemes, the benefits system, redundancy pay and help from banks

Treasury reduces charge for removing cash from tax-free accounts for under-40s

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

The US private sector shed a record 20m jobs in April as coronavirus lockdowns and the resulting closure of non-essential businesses led to historic joblessness

Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster

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Products vital to combat coronavirus could become more expensive and scarce

Zeitgold has raised a Series B round of $29.2 million (€27 million). Overall, the company has raised more than $54 million (€50 million). The company is building a software platform for small companies to automate bookkeeping as much as possible. Vintage Investment Partners is leading today’s round with existing investors Battery Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, […]

Meet Kairn, a new startup coming out of stealth today with a sneak peek of what the company has been working on. As Wunderlist shuts down, Kairn wants to prove that there’s still room for an innovative task-management service. “We’re building a task manager that is smart and focused on capturing tasks,” co-founder and CEO […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]