Corporate bond links income and capital to inflation

Timely relaunch allows savers to keep pace with the rising cost of living

More options for savers seeking real returns

Bond pays out 105 per cent on RPI

First big energy supplier to pass on lower wholesale costs

Forbearance and federal support programmes disguise how badly Americans have been hit

Pound dips following UK chancellor’s hard Brexit remarks

Tickets website has to navigate an overhaul of UK rail’s supporting infrastructure

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

Loss would be a blow to London market and unpalatable to some UK-based fund managers

Smart meter group’s IPO boosts hopes of fundraising uptick after lacklustre 2019

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

Spanish and Italian bans on short selling follow US Federal Reserve’s liquidity injection

Pressure rises on investors to blacklist companies associated with Brazilian deforestation

Treasury also licenses Chevron to operate in crisis-hit nation for a further 3 months

Money matters are a surprise hit on the photo-sharing app

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

Treasury reduces charge for removing cash from tax-free accounts for under-40s

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Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter

Move boosts chemicals group’s growing sports investment portfolio

Amid charges of greenwashing from activists, the private company is investing in football, cycling and other ventures

Demand surges as hospitals require more medical oxygen for coronavirus patients on ventilators

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 […]

“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 […]

Private lawsuits are a vital tool for upholding standards in the free market system

Many zombie companies will fail, no matter how much is sprayed around by the Fed

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world’s most valued startups (ByteDance), continues to grow rapidly despite suspicion from the U.S. as more people look for ways to keep themselves entertained amid the coronavirus pandemic. The global app and its Chinese version, called Douyin, have amassed over 2 billion downloads […]

Researchers at NYU have identified hundreds of groups of Instagram users, some with thousands of members, that systematically exchange likes and comments in order to game the service’s algorithms and boost visibility. In the process, they also trained machine learning agents to identify whether a post has been juiced in this way. “Pods,” as they’ve […]

Facebook has a new connectivity app called Discover to help those who can’t afford to get online access information on the web. The service, available through mobile web and Android app, allows users to visit any website in text format (no video, images, audio and other elements that eat up large amounts of data) and […]

In spite of their protected status under international laws, pangolins remain one of the most trafficked animals in the world — and at least some of that trade is taking place right out in the open on Facebook . A new report from tech watchdog group the Tech Transparency Project details how Facebook users are […]

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners said on Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms, joining social conglomerate Facebook and Silver Lake that have also made bets on the Indian telecom giant in recent weeks. The planned announcement, which would give the U.S.-headquartered software-focused buyout firm Vista Equity Partners a 2.32% stake in […]

After months of testing, Facebook’s redesign is finally official. Announced last year at F8, the more minimalist approach to its desktop design has been rolled out in waves. In March, the company added an option to try out the new version. Users could switch back and leave feedback for why they had done so. This […]

The problem with bad data is that it lures us into believing false truths

From Brexit to fiscal policy, the EU’s largest member states have seen the mainstream wrongfooted

The UK should not agree to proposals to stagger the talks, with fish as part of the first course

The continent could become a playground of conflicting US, Chinese and Russian interests

Investment strategies have failed to prepare the country for the technology shock

Without a co-ordinated response, national stimulus policies will end up increasing imbalances

Saudis alleged to have hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone

Donald Trump plans to reopen US for business despite coronavirus

Some big moves in the payments platform space: Ant Financial Group, the owner of China’s Alipay payment platform, has announced it’s taking a minority stake in Swedish payments platform Klarna . Klarna has a strong European presence and a flagship product that lets shoppers buy now and pay later in interest-free installments (typically 14 or […]

Doxzoo proudly says on its website that your “documents are in safe hands.” But for some time, that wasn’t true. The U.K. printing company left its customer files on a cloud storage bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services, without a password. Anyone who knew the easy-to-guess bucket name could access the massive trove of customer […]

At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach. The company today announced that it will now offer card issuing services directly to businesses to let them in turn make credit cards for customers tailored to specific purposes. Alongside that, it’s going […]

Traditionally dominated by big players like Adobe and Autodesk, the world of design has been flush with a newer wave of startups that are creating collaboration spaces and new cloud-based tools designed to address the needs of creatives. Today, two of those players are combining. Dribbble, an online community for designers that lets them post […]