Richard Tyler

The banking association calls for billions in taxpayer-funded grants to be handed out through £5,000 vouchers to support the drive for net zero and boost job creation

UK Export Finance will expand its backing for small businesses to 1,000 a year

Neil Bellamy, bank’s head of technology said deal shows potential that unlocking value from IP and intangible assets could have for the UK economy

The impact investor is rebranding because those making a social difference have an obligation to make the money grow, says Sir Ronald Cohen

A new regime of checks at the border take effect on Tuesday and many hauliers are worried

Todd Swift, owner of the Black Spring Press Group, says it is getting harder for independent publishers to remain viable amid fierce competition

The phasing out of third-party cookies on Google Chrome means the likes of Bauer and Future are having to come up with alternative models

Big firms criticised by education secretary Gillian Keegan over bid to use apprentice cash for up-skilling staff

Bank tests an online credit approval process in response to the growth of alternative lenders

It had been estimated that 26,000 businesses stall their growth to avoid the tax

Uncertainty over the future of Britain’s flagship small firms loan guarantee scheme is causing lenders in deprived communities to warn that funding is being frozen.The state guarantee scheme — known

A government food initiative that could improve the quality of school and hospital meals has awarded a £100 million contract to the procurement arm of the catering giant Sodexo.The deal by the Cabinet

Key industry figures are hopeful that Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget next week can build on momentum across a range of industries

The benefit consultancy AON joins others in listing Yurtle as a preferred supplier of insurance for people in work who are primary care providers

The tech giant says prediction is taking over from precision in online advertising

UK Export Finance insures overseas contracts and provides guarantees on loans linked to exports but has capacity to do a lot more, says its chief executive Tim Reid

Unlimited tax break was part of a 2014 push for a more “John Lewis economy”, but this year’s budget is likely include measures such as banning offshore trusts

Retailers are facing a “pivotal juncture” this year as more merge their physical and online operations and try to tackle the unsustainable cost of home deliveries and returns, an industry report

Marks & Spencer joins calls for apprenticeship levy reform, with high costs and lack of guidance cited by businesses as main barriers to taking on trainees

The crime fiction writer Sophie Hannah planted the idea for CMR Surgical during a chance conversation in a mezzo soprano’s home in Cambridge