Finance

The Bank of England’s 3.75% hold offers no simple reassurance for borrowers or businesses. Higher energy costs, market rates and cautious demand still require close attention.

A rise in remote company formation matters less as a registration statistic than as evidence of growing demand for accountants, legal advisers and compliance providers.

Insurance and technology leaders will meet in New York to examine the governance, infrastructure and operating questions surrounding agentic AI.

The CMA’s latest heating-oil redress scheme exposes a wider commercial weakness: pricing systems built for normal trading can fail customers precisely when certainty matters most.

Westminster’s reporting overhaul promises less paperwork. The commercial consequence is a sharper test of whether companies can produce reliable, connected and reusable evidence.

The return of higher inflation is being driven by household energy costs rather than a broad revival in price pressure. Commercial teams need sharper demand signals.

The FCA’s latest findings show that AI has overtaken familiar media as a trusted investment research tool. Financial firms must respond at the point curiosity begins.

New ONS analysis suggests that conventional measures miss much of the infrastructure supporting AI, cloud services and data-intensive business models.