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Barclays is set to announce profits for the first three months of the year of £2bn this week as it attempts to convince investors its financial performance merits the £17.7m compensation package it has controversially awarded chief executive, Bob Diamond.
Bob Diamond’s tax bill is just the tip of the iceberg.
Britain should rein in salaries at Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds as anger over bankers’ pay mounted ahead of their annual general meetings.
Condé Nast can now check ZipList off its shopping list as the magazine giant has announced that it has acquired ZipList, a digital shopping list and recipe service for $14Million.
Employers could be made to pay Revenue & Customs in order to trade after the taxman was awarded new powers last week.
Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond should not get any bonus at all, according to a shareholders advisory group.
More money printing by the Bank of England could hurt Britain’s recovery by pushing up the cost of Government borrowing, the head of the Debt Management Office (DMO) has warned.
The rising cost of stamps is set to add millions of pounds to the cost of sending cheques in the post as it becomes the more expensive payment option.
Britain will likely avoid sliding back into recession this year, thanks to solid growth in overseas markets, but the the government needs to do more to intice banks to lend into a weak economy, the British Chambers of Commerce said Tuesday.
Teaming up with the government, Web giant creates a sprawling campus to support early-stage companies.
10,000 small business merchants take their ads to Twitter this week.
The number of employees who called in sick yesterday is treble the count for the whole of last week
