Finance

Insiders possess a significant advantage that enables them to profit from memecoins, while retail investors endure the majority of the losses.

The Bank of England has maintained the UK’s base rate at 4.5%, aligning with the expectations of many economists.

The cost of passport applications will increase - again - next month.

A major high street bank is closing more than a fifth of its branches across the UK.

Shoes, coffee pods and celebrity cut-outs – these are just some of the things that civil servants have been splashing taxpayers’ cash on with special credit cards.

A number of major retailers have stopped taking cash in some or all of their stores, sparking backlash from a pro-cash campaign group, who say they are ’letting down the public’

In response to complaints about electricity theft, authorities conducted raids on three abandoned houses and discovered remotely controlled mining operations.

A record five million UK tax payers now fall into the highest rate tax bracket figures have revealed - as fears grow over the potential of Reeves’ April mini-budget.

Donald Trump has doubled planned tariffs on imports of Canadian steel and aluminium from 25% to 50%.

The payments crash at the European Central Bank last week resulted in delayed salaries and welfare funds for thousands of people. It could have been much worse.

A primary contributor by the name of TCB cautioned that Thorchain might encounter a crisis if the network is perceived as a facilitator of money laundering.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau billed taxpayers for $157,642 in household food expenses over a two-year period, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

The US bank intended to send $280, but no funds were transferred due to a ’fat finger’ mistake.

Argentine President Javier Milei — nicknamed El Loco (“the Madman”) for his radical right-wing politics — is looking at a possible impeachment over a cryptocurrency scandal now that the memecoin he advertised has collapsed.

According to data from the Student Loans Company, some former students in England overpaid on their loans more than five years ago and have still not claimed their refunds.

Bitcoin dropped below $90,000 to its lowest since November 18 on Tuesday, as market nerves over U.S. tariffs reinforced the blow to crypto investor confidence from last week’s $1.5 billion hack of ether from the Bybit exchange.

The High Court in Ireland approved the appointment of provisional liquidators on Thursday as New Look seeks to wind down its Irish operations following several years of "sustained losses and challenging market conditions."

Generous Brits wishing to give money and belongings to loved ones before they pass away have been encouraged to familiarize themselves with the government’s inheritance tax (IHT) rules.

According to Martin Lewis, 80% of households in England, Scotland and Wales currently overpay for energy — and in the coming months, it’s only going to get worse.