British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated the Diwali timeline for a draft India-United Kingdom free trade agreement (FTA), declaring that the proposed trade deal with New Delhi would be the biggest yet in the post-Brexit context.

BNP Paribas officials told the Dutch government that they are interested in buying state-owned lender ABN Amro. The first major cross-border deal with the combination of France’s biggest bank by market capitalisation and the third-largest bank...

Starling Bank, a start-up, founded by Anne Boden in 2014, has agreed to acquire a mortgage book worth about £500mn as the digital challenger attempts to broaden its assets beyond Covid-19 loans. It is buying the loan portfolio from specialist...

Like many central banks around the world, the Bank of England is grappling with a surge in inflation triggered by the stimulus-aided rebound from the coronavirus pandemic, supply-chain disruptions, and soaring energy prices.

Every spring thousands of seasonal workers come to harvest the UK's soft fruits, but this year they're coming. Before Brexit many people came from Poland, Romania and Bulgaria to harvest UK's fruits. Now, UK growers are employing people from...

There will be major disruption in Britain's train services in June and July as drivers are planning to join thousands of other rail workers on strike. Aslef, Britain's trade union for train drivers, announced strikes at three companies over...

The UK is currently in the grip of an “employment crisis”- there are 1.3 million job vacancies, and for the first time, there are not enough people looking for work to fill them. This is partly due to Brexit: it has “contributed to the exodus...

Rising petrol and diesel prices are putting pressure on household budgets, with energy bills and food prices also now at multi-year highs. The RAC motoring group called it "a truly dark day" as the cost of filling a 55-litre tank reached £100.27...