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Best Dividend Stocks to Buy When Markets Crash

Last Updated: March 27, 2020

Dividend stocks that have outperformed broader markets over the years present attractive buying opportunities as the panic selling amid coronavirus outbreak across the world has […]

Marks & Spencer and other firms scrap dividends to save cash during pandemic

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: March 20, 2020

A flurry of the UK’s biggest firms suspended dividends in a battle to shore up their balance sheets as business volumes collapse due to the […]

Interview: Starling boss Anne Boden says digital banks ‘have to show they can make a profit’

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: March 16, 2020

The most famous woman in British fintech bustles into a City meeting room on the sixth floor of the bank she built. At five foot, […]

Funding Circle cuts jobs and sees losses widen

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: March 12, 2020

Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle saw full-year losses widen after booking substantial losses in its German and Dutch markets. The FTSE 250 firm posted an £84.2m […]

Budget 2020 Highlights – What the Chancellor’s £100bn spending binge means for you

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: March 11, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak rewrote a decade of Conservative austerity policy in his Budget and pledged to borrow £125bn as he set out plans to tackle […]

Walmart holds talks to sell stake in Asda

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: February 26, 2020

US retail giant Walmart said it is in talks to sell a majority stake in its UK arm Asda, the supermarket it failed to sell […]

Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy online brokerage ETrade for $13bn

Morgan Stanley agrees $13bn swoop for ETrade

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy online trading brokerage ETrade for $13bn, in the biggest takeover by a major American bank since the 2008 financial […]

Hanging up on Huawei: Polls across the West label Chinese telecom ‘untrustworthy’

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: February 14, 2020

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has been barred from contracts worth billions and seen the public perception of its brand crash across four countries across three […]

Germany’s N26 shuts UK banking operation, Blames Brexit

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: February 14, 2020

German digital bank N26 said it will close its UK operation, blaming Britain leaving the European Union. The Berlin-based challenger bank said it would close […]

Revolut launches 360-degree view of customer finances for first time

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: February 10, 2020

Revolut said customers will now be able to see all their financial accounts inside its banking app – promising them a 360-degree view of their […]