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

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

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

UK-based education company is still more value trap than takeover candidate

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

Production costs to rise by 61% when industry invests in carbon capture

Shares in security software maker dropped sharply after revelations of data harvesting

Price in local currencies of commodities such as copper and coffee has surged

Mauricio Leyva to advise German family company on expanding beverages arm

Ambitious plans for renewable energy rarely feature in government strategy

From coffee to copper, exporters enjoy higher profits

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

State-owned oil group faces risk of further rating downgrades and grapples with output woes

The former Fox CEO commits millions to battle against disinformation

This inaugural ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth rate reveals the dominance of the US and technology — the top-ranked company this year is an augmented reality and video game developer

Technology bolsters US dominance of the list, but coronavirus fallout looms large

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

Finding a good credit card deal when you’re older is more difficult

Withdrawal fees soar to £104m and banks save £120m in ATM shake-up

Advisers warn the widening landscape is confusing investors and preventing people from saving

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

Current rates from the state-owned savings bank

In today’s news: UK warns it would be ‘irresponsible’ to discuss easing lockdown. Spain sets out plan to lift its own tough measures. Donald Trump signals a halt to his daily media briefings as US death toll accelerates.

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Concern over use of chemicals drives research into alternatives

Deal to create one of world’s biggest chemicals groups beset by management clashes

US flavouring group seeks first-mover advantage with purchase of nutrition venture

Move boosts chemicals group’s growing sports investment portfolio

Cheap shale gas has fed an investment boom in products that often end up as waste. Has the petrochemicals industry miscalculated?

AskRobin, an Estonia-founded fintech that operates a financial services marketplace for “underbanked” customers in Latin America, has picked up $1.7 million in funding. The seed round is backed by VC funds Change Ventures, Vereeni Early Stage Fund, BENE Asia Capital, and Lemonade Stand. In addition, a number of tech entrepreneurs from Estonia participated, such as […]

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 […]

The last time America sold war bonds they were essentially a tax on savers

Under lockdown, vulnerable families are imprisoned in a cage of terror, stress and abuse

As US health workers suffer from inadequate protection, there are signs of a shifting world order

WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]

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 […]

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

It would be the underlying law and EU treaty that needs changing, not the ruling

TV debate vacates centre ground

COP25 attempts to confront climate change

Donald Trump plans to reopen US for business despite coronavirus

Governments scramble for coronavirus tests

Donald Trump pulls support from the World Health Organization

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 […]

Google is reportedly on the verge of stepping up their hardware game in a way that follows the example set by Apple, with custom-designed silicon powering future smartphones. Axios reports that Google is readying its own in-house processors for use in future Pixel devices, including both phones and eventually Chromebooks, too. Google’s efforts around its […]

In its first-quarter earnings report today, Samsung said it expects the COVID-19 pandemic to continue impacting its business for the rest of the year, cutting into sales for smartphones and TVs, but increasing demand for PCs, servers and memory chips as people continue to work or study from home. Samsung’s results for the first-quarter of […]

A lot of restaurants have shuttered in the wake of stay-at-home guidance and government orders for non-essential businesses to close down, so a startup called Cheetah that provided a wholesale delivery service for them pivoted to selling to consumers, and now it’s raised a round of funding, both to expand its business and to help […]

Amazon has been one of the biggest names synonymous with how the consumer masses are experiencing life under lockdown: its site lets you buy anything from soup to nuts, from books to baking pans for all your sourdough; and via its streaming services, it gives you many ways to stay entertained. But it can also […]

On the heels of a spate of reports over the weekend, today Intel confirmed its latest move to grow its automotive division. The chip giant is acquiring Moovit, an Israeli startup previously backed by Intel that analyses urban traffic patterns and provides transportation recommendations with a specific focus on public transit. The deal values Moovit at […]