Personal Finance & Investing
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Financial Services’ next AI risk is the workflow nobody can explain
Financial firms need end-to-end workflow visibility to scale agentic AI
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Popular investment event to move away from Yorkshire
UKREiiF will move from Leeds to Liverpool in 2028, after its final Royal Armouries event from May 18 to 20, 2027, as the major UK investment forum expands.
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London stocks up as soft US jobs report eases rate fears
The FTSE 100 index ended up 33.68 points, 0.3%, at 10,461.95.
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Earn £150 in interest with October’s best savings accounts and cash ISAs
As inflation continues to rise, savers should ensure they cash is earning interest at a higher rate
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Patients could ‘opt out of care’ over NHS Palantir fears, councillors warned
PATIENTS could ‘lose trust and opt out of care’ over concerns about the use of US technology firm Palantir’s data platform in the NHS, councillors have been warned.
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The Nvidia Shield Pro is getting a 50% price hike due to the AI component crisis — I sure hope Nvidia can work out who's responsible for this
The standard Shield is dropped, and the Pro gets a huge price hike. If only Nvidia knew who was responsible for making GPUs and memory so expensive
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G7 to release up to 100m barrels of emergency oil and diesel reserves
Leaders agree a coordinated drawdown within four months as rising prices put pressure on households and economies
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'Crippling’ £2-a-litre diesel adds £350,000 to North East firm's fuel bill in a year
Peter Scott, a director of family-run Teesside firm Scott Bros, has called diesel hitting £2 a litre for the first time “crippling”, estimating that its increase has added £350,000 to the firm's fuel bill.
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Thousands could lose key disability benefits in welfare changes
The plans risk reigniting tensions with backbench Labour MPs over welfare spending
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Farmers shrinking their businesses over Labour's inheritance tax, poll reveals
The CLA polling, which had some 700 respondents, found that some people are trying to reduce the value of their businesses to avoid unaffordable inheritance tax bills.
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Disorganised households estimate they pay an extra £801 per year on bills
Energy prices go up this week – and households who are disorganised with their bills reckon it costs them £801 a year, according to research.
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What does it say about Labour’s tax policy when farmers are allowing their business to deteriorate?
One of the biggest mistakes that the Sir Keir Starmer government made was the introduction of the family farm tax.
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Arsonist who set fire to bin outide York hotel will have to pay £880
An arsonist faces a bill of more than £880 after he set fire to a York city centre bin.
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Confidence about the economy is in short supply despite a relatively solid job market
The official numbers show that the U.S. job market has proven sturdy in the face of one shock after another – President Donald Trump’s trade wars, persistent inflation, high interest rates, a conflict with Iran that has sent gasoline prices rocketing and squeezed family budgets
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Disorganised households estimate they pay an extra £801 per year on bills
Energy prices go up this week – and households who are disorganised with their bills reckon it costs them £801 a year, according to research.
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Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago
Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago, despite ongoing economic pressures.
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Disorganised households estimate they pay an extra £801 per year on bills
Energy prices go up this week – and households who are disorganised with their bills reckon it costs them £801 a year, according to research.
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When cheaper hosting costs more
Why low-cost hosting can create higher long-term costs
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Government's fiscal devolution plans could widen regional inequalities, IFS says
Nayors will start retaining business rates and a small proportion of income tax over the coming years.
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Major fashion retailer returns to UK high street 2 years after administration
Ted Baker is opening a new standalone store, which comes after it closed all 46 of its branches following its collapse into administration back in 2024.
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Arsonist who set fire to bin outide York hotel will have to pay £880
An arsonist faces a bill of more than £880 after he set fire to a York city centre bin.
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Former York care home to be demolished for 36 affordable homes
Former care home site Willow House, in Walmgate, is being cleared to make way for 36 affordable council homes.
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North Yorkshire residents asked to help shape council spending priorities
North Yorkshire Council has launched a public consultation to help shape its financial plans and service priorities for the year.
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Minister says UK has ‘diverse’ diesel supply after Trump threatens to cut Europe off
The UK joined crisis talks with Brussels to discuss the possible need to release their emergency stocks
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No free-to-use cash machine would be 'dreadful' for Hawes
A report recommends that a free ATM should be provided for the Yorkshire Dales town.
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Former York care home to be demolished for 36 affordable homes
Former care home site Willow House, in Walmgate, is being cleared to make way for 36 affordable council homes.
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Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago
Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago, despite ongoing economic pressures.
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Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago
Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago, despite ongoing economic pressures.
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Tech skills gaps are costing UK businesses around £380,000 a year — and it's even worse in cybersecurity
Tech and security leaders are worried about the skills gap
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Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago
Brits are feeling more confident with their money than they were two years ago, despite ongoing economic pressures.
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Fund manager makes senior promotions to drive growth in the North East
FW Capital promotes Joanne Whitfield to managing director for England and Lindsey McMenamin to fund director, boosting SME finance across the North East.
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Experts issue warning over scam ‘energy-saving devices’ which could cause fires
Products claiming to lower energy costs have failed standard safety testing, new investigation reveals
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Major fashion retailer returns to UK high street 2 years after administration
Ted Baker is opening a new standalone store, which comes after it closed all 46 of its branches following its collapse into administration back in 2024.
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Disorganised households estimate they pay an extra £801 per year on bills
Energy prices go up this week – and households who are disorganised with their bills reckon it costs them £801 a year, according to research.
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Asian shares mixed after global bond sell-off deepens and ahead of US jobs data
Asian shares are mixed after a global bond sell-off deepened
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North Yorkshire residents asked to help shape council spending priorities
North Yorkshire Council has launched a public consultation to help shape its financial plans and service priorities for the year.
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Iowa lawmakers to vote on raising tax incentive cap for a $15B steel plant
Iowa lawmakers are set to return to the Statehouse Friday to consider expanding state tax incentives
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G20 trade talks yield little progress while tensions simmer
G20 trade ministers have failed to agree on curbing the flooding of global markets with overproduced, underpriced goods
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Thames Water apologises after blunder sees £145,000 taken from customer’s account
Teacher Adam Bainbridge discovered early on Thursday morning that a payment of £145,562 to Thames Water had been debited from his bank account
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She sounded panicked, she was trying to boil an egg - now she can't return home
Maureen Knowles, 75, is unable to return home and is facing thousands of pounds in repair costs
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Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk
The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site
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Crypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery
The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.
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Why Gen Z are opting out of workplace pensions
A growing number of people are opting out of these schemes due to cost-of-living pressures.
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Mapped: Britain’s ‘10 most and least affordable’ places to buy a home
Lloyds says the average UK home costs about 7.3 times average earnings, the lowest it has been since 2015
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DWP state pensioners under 77 can get extra £965.20 payment
Some pensioners may have received two scheduled State Pension payments in September
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Councillors considering refusing permission to build 230 homes warned of “multiple six figures” for wrong decision
Councillors considering refusing a developer permission to build 230 homes were warned by a planning chief it could cost the authority “multiple six figures” if they get their decision wrong.
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Much-loved North Yorkshire pub to close for 5 weeks for 'full transformation'
The much-loved Tap on the Tutt in Boroughbridge is to close for over five weeks to undergo a “full transformation.”
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Carney pitches oil pipeline as a response to US-Canada trade war
A west coast pipeline project is the first to be fast-tracked and will be a major test of Carney's promise to global investors.
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Renew Holdings: Yorkshire-based engineering services firm set for record profits
Yorkshire-based engineering services group Renew Holdings has said it expects to achieve record revenue and profits for the year.
