Chief Jon Lewis admits outsourcer has ‘more to do and requires more investment’ than expected

Private equity firms in separate discussions to back coronavirus-hit Serie A

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

German regulator looks at group’s statements ahead of KPMG special audit report

JPMorgan data show about one in four loans was behind on payments last month

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

Latest proposal accused of being misleading over environmental risk

Coronavirus exposes nation’s post-Fukushima vulnerability

For some analysts the industrial metal looks cheap, even given the Covid-19 slowdown

The Adventurous Investor senses there could be future value in spinout specialists

It is the deepest, broadest, most liquid market for larger global businesses

Online broker is revamping its charging structure

1% cashback for mortgage customers with 123 account

Forbearance and federal support programmes disguise how badly Americans have been hit

Key markets simmering during the thin trading sessions around year-end

Pound dips following UK chancellor’s hard Brexit remarks

Outbreak ripples across US, European and Asian equity markets

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

As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback 

Listed businesses have been conspicuously slow in estimating disruption to operations

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

The default product of anxious idleness has been sidelined during pandemic

Finding a good credit card deal when you’re older is more difficult

Lockdown presents a golden educational opportunity, particularly if you work in investment

Products vital to combat coronavirus could become more expensive and scarce

AskRobin, an Estonia-founded fintech that operates a financial services marketplace for “underbanked” customers in Latin America, has picked up $1.7 million in funding. The seed round is backed by VC funds Change Ventures, Vereeni Early Stage Fund, BENE Asia Capital, and Lemonade Stand. In addition, a number of tech entrepreneurs from Estonia participated, such as […]

A number of UK entrepreneurs have banded together to survey Angels about their investment strategy. The initiative comes in the wake of the UK government’s “Future Fund” for startups, which has been criticized as being inadequate for the needs of Angel and Seed-stage startups. The group hopes the survey will give the UK early-stage investment […]

The last time America sold war bonds they were essentially a tax on savers

Many zombie companies will fail, no matter how much is sprayed around by the Fed

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]

The coronavirus pandemic is significantly slowing the growth of Facebook’s ads business, but investors seem pleased with the company’s performance in Q1 after Facebook released its earnings report Wednesday. The company beat Wall Street expectations on revenues, sharing that they had made $17.74 billion while falling short on earnings per share at $1.71. The company […]

For many college seniors, school is a time for self-exploration, considering options, leisurely contemplating the future. Yet that’s rarely the case for computer engineering students who either attend the world’s best universities or rise to the very top of their classes. Almost immediately after choosing their courses during the first week of school, they typically […]

The problem with bad data is that it lures us into believing false truths

Doxzoo proudly says on its website that your “documents are in safe hands.” But for some time, that wasn’t true. The U.K. printing company left its customer files on a cloud storage bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services, without a password. Anyone who knew the easy-to-guess bucket name could access the massive trove of customer […]

As coronavirus-hit financial markets continue to flip-flop in the wake of bad news followed by pockets of hope, a startup that aims to introduce ordinary consumers to investing has raised a big round of funding. New York-based Stash, which provides a mobile-first route to managing money through investment — as well as retirement, custodial and […]

With unemployment growing at a worrying rate, we’re seeing a lot more people finding themselves in hot water when it comes to their finances. Today a startup that’s built a platform to help identify and help those users when they find themselves unable to make payments is announcing a very large growth round of funding […]

Brent crude slips back below $30 a barrel after a six-day run of gains

Equities rise but some Treasury yields hit record lows as investors weigh economic outlook

Currency seen as safe haven from eurozone debt crisis

Investors seek safe haven from stock market volatility

HMRC has sent an email saying that my tax code has changed

Britain has less margin for error because it is zigging to everyone else’s zag

A lot of startups have answered the call for more personal protective equipment (PPE) and other essentials to support healthcare workers in their efforts to curb the spread and impact of COVID-19. One of those is direct-to-consumer 3D-printed eyewear brand Fitz, which is employing its custom-fit glasses technology to build protective, prescription specs for front-line […]

You can easily read optimism in the stock market. Ask around the private markets, however, and you'll hear a very different narrative.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s stock price was “too high” in his opinion, immediately sending shares into a free fall and in possible violation of an agreement reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year. Tesla shares fell nearly 12% in the half hour following his stock price tweets […]

Investing for good gains traction, but the yields on oil stocks remain compelling