Insurer is well placed to manage pandemic-related losses

German regulator looks at group’s statements ahead of KPMG special audit report

Horseman Capital’s Russell Clark has sold his holdings in government bonds

Sobering up after the crisis will require changes to tax laws, bonuses and pensions

Details of historic borrowing plans send government bond yields higher

Coveted top-quality rating hanging by a thread as Moody’s decision looms

Regional trading blocs would better align mutual interests and provide stability

Turmoil in commodity market slashes state colleges’ revenues

French energy group makes emissions pledge as first-quarter profits drop 35%

The Adventurous Investor senses there could be future value in spinout specialists

An esoteric choice they may be for private investors, but if you’re selective they can add value

I’ve drawn up a list of badly beaten-up stocks worthy of a punt

New Sipp dealing account has no annual management fee

More options for savers seeking real returns

New current account offers 3 per cent interest and cashback on bills

The four-year bond will pay 7.5%

Small businesses hope the fast-track credit scheme will be a lifeline

Covid-19 pandemic increases problems for retirement schemes already in deficit

Cash from successful claims could reach bank accounts by end of the month

More than £1bn ploughed into equity vehicles after decisive Conservative victory

Lansdowne, Odey and Wadhwani among those betting on a revival of UK equities

Optimism, not pessimism, could spark future takeover offers for UK investment houses

Pressure rises on investors to blacklist companies associated with Brazilian deforestation

Ireland’s richest man O’Brien faces struggle to refinance former cash cow’s debt pile

Pledges to donate Covid-19 test kits pour in from groups including Vale and Petrobras

Brazilian group alleges tycoon’s family-controlled mining arm fraudulently funnelled $500m into Manhattan real estate

New rules allow savings to go straight into an Isa without affecting the annual allowance

Bank blames low-interest environment and impact of banking regulation

Young people may face many challenges, but they also have many wealth creation opportunities

As interest rates fall, more savings banks rely on the lure of cash prizes

Over 400,000 teenagers will be eligible to claim funds from later this year

Surprise measures on pensions and investing for children lay in the chancellor’s red box

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With the disastrous purchase of Monsanto and plummeting shares, some question if it is time to break up the German group

German chemicals group faces surge in plaintiffs alleging cancer link to Roundup

Products vital to combat coronavirus could become more expensive and scarce

At the start of the year, it looked like Europe would be in for a “Summer E-Scooters / E-Bike War,” as both regional startups and U.S.-backed unicorns vied for the pockets of city commuters. Consolidation came when German startup Circ was taken over by U.S. competitor Bird at the start of the year. Still on […]

Like other accelerators, Techstars, a network of more than 40 corporate and geographically targeted startup bootcamps, has had to bring its marquee demo day events online. Over the last two weeks of April, industry-focused accelerators working with startups building businesses around mobility technologies (broadly) and the future of the home joined programs in Abu Dhabi, […]

Banked, a London-based fintech using open banking to enable account-to-account payments at checkout (and beyond), has raised £2.35 million in further seed funding. The round was led by Force Over Mass, with participation from previous investors Backed and Acrew Capital, along with a number of high-net-worth individuals, such as Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed.com). It […]

VC fund Runa Capital was launched with $135 million in 2010, and is perhaps best known for its investment into NGINX, which powers many web sites today. In more recent years it has participated or led investments into startups such as Zipdrug ($10.8 million); Rollbar this year ($11 million); and Monedo (for €20 million). HQ’d […]

Countingup, the business current account that “automates” your accounting, has raised £4 million in self-described bridge funding. Leading the round is ING Ventures, with co-investment from Triple Point, CVentures, and BiG Start Ventures. Founded by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, and now boasting 20,000 business customers, Countingup’s long term vision […]

Cuckoo Internet is a new U.K. startup that aims to disrupt the U.K. broadband market. It has now raised £470,000 in seed funding, which includes funding from work.fund, a new Silicon Valley fund operator fund led by Bart Macdonald (Sapling founder). Other investors include Lorin van Nuland (early investor in Betterment), Edward Campbell-Harris (Bulb early […]

“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]

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Corporate accountants could have a significant impact on green issues

Byju’s, an education learning startup in India that has seen a surge in its popularity in recent weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak, is in talks to raise as much as $400 million in fresh capital at a $10 billion valuation, said three people familiar with the matter. The additional capital would be part of the […]

This week we continue to look at how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting the world of apps, plus the use of live-streaming apps as fundraising tools and more.

You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . Poynter Institute, a non-profit organization that supports journalism, today launched a bot on the Facebook -owned service that will allow people across the globe to debunk over 4,000 hoaxes surrounding the pandemic such as whether the infectious disease originated in […]