Philip Hammond is facing a £12bn hole in the public finances this year after changes to the way student loans are treated on the government’s books, reflecting that many will never be repaid. In a stroke of the pen from the Office for National Stati...
Charging more for parking could save the environment, ease congestion and inject energy back into the high street. But how? The Guardian's Peter Walker explains that we've been thinking about parking all wrong: it's not a right, but rather an over-s...
Shares on Wall Street fell in early trading on Friday, as global markets headed for their longest losing streak in five years. New York’s Nasdaq index lost 2.5% after the opening bell in the wake of a poor set of tech results on Thursday, continuing...
An amateur share trader from France who racked up a €10m (£8.8m) profit using a British brokerage’s platform he initially thought was a training system is suing the company after it seized his earnings. Harouna Traoré had opened a €20,000 account wi...
Indians can now heave a sigh of aid. They will now withdraw extra of their very own cash, parked in their very own financial institution accounts. The nation's federal financial institution has raised the withdrawal restrict from ATMs to Rs 10,000 (...
India just took its next major step in becoming a cashless society. IDFC Bank has launched an app called Aadhaar Pay that aims to help millions of its citizens without a smartphone to pay for their purchases digitally with just their fingerprint. M...