The global internet community is set to introduce a new and more sophisticated level of internet security and Bacs is again warning businesses to act now to avoid losing access to vital payment services when internet security changes from 13 June 2016.

- ƒTotal consumer spending increases by +2.5% year-on-year in April

- ƒƒE-commerce growth rate of +8.4% year-on-year but face-to-face expenditure is broadly flat (+0.2% year-on-year)

- ƒƒClothing and footwear sees biggest fall in year-on-year spending since September 2014

A new £1.2 million fund has been set up to help small and innovative UK firms to work with international businesses, seek out new global markets and supply chains, innovation agency Innovate UK announced today.

New research has found that Brexit could cause a pay cut across the country – and especially in London.

The Trade Union Bill has received parliamentary approval (Royal Assent) and becomes the Trade Union Act 2016.

The Enterprise Bill has now received parliamentary approval (Royal Assent) and becomes the Enterprise Act.

The Building Societies Association welcomes the new 'diversity objective' outlined in the Bank of England & Financial Services Act for improving competition and resilience in financial services, but urges MPs to help monitor its impact.

Unite, the UK’s biggest union, is today calling on the government to scrap plans to replace NHS bursaries with loans amid warnings that it will cause workforce crisis and turmoil within the NHS.

Labour MP Andrew Gwynne talks to PoliticsHome about closing a loophole in nineteenth-century taxi licensing laws which currently enables previous offenders to drive cabs unchecked. 

Financial education for the next generation, and a new ethical marketplace for lending, are required to halt the ‘massive’ growth in debt among self-employed, low earners and students, says ACCA.

Less than half of businesses know who their most profitable customers are and two thirds of businesses admit to not measuring the profitability of their channels to market

£1.6 billion has been lent by responsible finance providers over the past 10 years according to our new report published today.

Once again we are witnessing working class people in Scotland being thrown on to the scrap heap by ruthless employer who clearly put profit before people says GMB Scotland

GMB, the union for shipyard workers, has commented on the announcement from Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead that it intends to make 98 workers redundant.

Salaries for small building firms are soaring as a result of the growing skills shortage, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

Speaking to PoliticsHome, Labour MP Chris Matheson slams the Government for “piling misery upon misfortune” in its relentless plunder of disability benefits.

The Investment Association today publishes its monthly statistics for authorised investment funds for March 2016 which show:

Our Members do not want this taskforce to be a toothless tiger so GMB must be involved

 

Trade unions have slammed British Gas for unnecessary job losses, while its ‘top brass’ continues to enjoy multi-million pound pay packages.

British Gas’ decision to axe 684 office jobs, including the company’s Oldbury operation in the West Midlands, has been met with dismay by Unite, the country’s largest union, which called for the site to remain open.

Exports of premium beef and lamb cuts to the West Indies present a significant opportunity for the industry, according to AHDB Beef & Lamb.

This announcement is further evidence of the way British Gas now sees staff as pawns to be sacrificed when it suits says GMB.

Latest quarterly global survey from ACCA and IMA shows businesses less optimistic in Q1 16/17 than at any other time in the past four years

Santander's Head of International, John Carroll, talks to PoliticsHome’s Central Lobby about how the public and private sector can foster more export opportunities for UK firms.