Business

Zopa, one of Britain's biggest digital financial services providers, is in talks with investors about a £100m capital injection that will put it on course to become the country's latest fintech 'unicorn'.

The UK's former cyber security chief has raised the alarm over the sale of a Welsh microchip manufacturer to a Chinese-backed company.

Taxpayers will spend decades exposed to financial risks from the government's coronavirus spending, according to a committee of MPs.

The newly listed owner of Burger King's UK operations has begun drawing up plans for a sale of the business next year in a bet on an accelerated recovery of Britain's pandemic-hit restaurant industry.

People in frontline roles such as police, fire and the Border Force, will be able to avoid quarantine - regardless of vaccine status - if they are a close contact of a positive COVID case, as the government expands workplace testing in England.

The UK's economic bounce-back has slowed sharply partly thanks to the impact of the "pingdemic" causing workers to isolate, according to a key business survey.

Hotels and restaurants face a summer of closures after their workers were not included in quarantine exemptions, the government has been told.

Two of London's main Tube lines are shut this weekend and there are changes to other services as 300 staff self-isolate.

Unilever's ex-boss has said business leaders have an "obligation to speak up" after his former company became embroiled in a row with Israel over its Ben & Jerry's business.

Under sweltering skies in Norfolk, the harvest is coming in.