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The company made its debut on the London Stock Exchange this morning and within 15 minutes the share price had jumped by 310 per cent to 20.50p.

Fears on the one hand that tech and other growth stocks are overvalued and on the other that we are due to see rising inflation, has hit the Nasdaq and the big tech funds, dividing the market quite starkly.

Rishi Sunak is reportedly considering freezing the lifetime allowance, the total amount you can pay into a pension and still get tax relief, at £1,073,100 for the rest of this parliament.

The luxury carmaker recorded a £466million pre-tax loss in 2020 compared to a £119.6million loss the year before as it sold about 2,000 fewer cars.

Serco is not among Britain’s best-loved companies. But for all its faults, though, it does not deserve to be traduced by Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner (pictured).

IAG’s revenues collapsed by 69 per cent from £22.2billion to £6.8billion over the period as the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic hit the company hard.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras will be added to the 27-mile motorway that’s used by around 50,000 drivers daily.

This is Money takes a look at how much each streaming provider is charging their customers and how much prices have increased in the last few years.

Edmund Wood created the rum after being inspired by a trip to Bordeaux and thinking about childhood chocolate favourites leading to the creation of his Belgrove brand.

There are two beneficiaries, my sister and her daughter who is also the executor. Do you think it is possible for me to make a claim for a share of the will? If so what do I do?

Our fixed-rate mortgage ends in April – should we reduce our term from 25 years to 20, or is it better to start overpaying each month in the long-run?

Behavioural investing looks at the ways people risking their money often fall into psychological traps. It pays to keep them in mind when buying, selling and holding.

Just one per cent of travel insurance policies will cover you for cancellation of a trip if there is another lockdown, new research has revealed.

In a wide ranging report on how to improve the UK’s fintech sector, Ron Kalifa (pictured) urged bosses at The Old Lady to embrace the new asset class rather than dismiss them as a dangerous fad.

The UK’s third-largest supermarket said the changes had been driven by the ‘structural shift’ towards online food shopping during the pandemic.

The company first made a bid for the public markets in 2018, but pulled the £1.5bn float blaming market conditions. It has hired JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley for a second attempt.

The City rumour mill has been churning out this speculation out for a while – and both companies’ swift ‘no comment’ responses to Bloomberg reports did little to dampen investors’ enthusiasm.

Serco chief executive Rupert Soames (pictured) came out fighting yesterday, saying that despite a ‘bumpy start’ the NHS Test and Trace scheme was now a ‘remarkable success’.

The Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme for big firms will also be shut. But the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme will morph into a ‘recovery loan’ scheme.

Thor Bjorgolfsson (pictured), who counts film director Guy Ritchie as a good friend and who takes holidays with the Beckhams, was a major shareholder in Landsbanki, the bank behind Icesave.

Some 22 per cent of home buyers blame bad credit for having their property purchase thwarted. Experian’s John Webb and the Mortgage Advice Bureau’s Brian Murphy explain how to fix it

Around 750,000 buyers in England are set to benefit from the stamp duty holiday since it was launched last year, saving them but costing the Treasury nearly £5billion, according to the findings.

The cryptocurrency exchange group has made a regulatory filing to go public via the Nasdaq stock exchange, bringing it one step closer in its mission to bring about mainstream endorsement.

The zero-emissions car is less than three metres long, seats up to four people, has a claimed range of 106 miles and can be charged from a 240V mains socket.

The energy giant has closed down its app today after it was revealed hackers had accessed multiple customer accounts.

The new Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo shape is essentially a more rufty-tufty shooting brake, fastback or estate version of the highly successful Taycan saloon – or a blend of all three.

The greener petrol is designed to cut vehicle emissions but will likely increase fuel bills slightly for owners of newer cars – and hike running costs for older vehicles that can’t use it at all.

Joining the £1m club is an impossible dream for many, but investing in Isas might make it easier than you think. There are 579 investors

Speaking at a conference last night, Solomon said the culture and ethos of Goldman Sachs meant permanent home-working was not an option for the business or its staff.

We had been working on the basis that there was no way we would benefit from the stamp duty holiday, but I have now read that it could be extended for three months.

Figures for 2019 show that two million Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) were issued to drivers caught on 800 cameras driving in bus lanes across the country.

Sales of homes bought off-plan reached a six-year low in 2020 as landlords left the market – although there are signs home owners may be warming up to the idea of buying a home before it is fully built.

Fuel consumption for the new V8 is revealed as a miserly 19.5mpg with emissions of CO2 coming in at a mighty 327g/km.

The Chancellor should use next week’s Budget to simplify the Isa system and scrap the trend of having one for ‘almost every day of the week’, savings industry experts have said.

Consumers could be owed a collective £482.5million in damages from multibillion-dollar tech giant Qualcomm, according to the consumer body.

The Isa is a fantastic saving and investing invention but it also needs a radical change, because it’s not up to scratch anymore.

A car drove into my garden wall, demolishing a section. It was then revealed another car had got into him, leading to the crash. But now neither insurer is paying up for the damage. What can I do?

An eye-opening new report from the payment processor Worldpay found so-called ‘mobile wallet’ payments were used for just under a third of all online transactions in 2020.

There are a number of important factors to take into account when choosing how best to boost retirement savings with taxpayer handouts, says financial expert Kay Ingram.

Having been shut down since March 2020, the live events industry has launched a campaign, #GovCantSeeUs, urging the Government to act now to save businesses and livelihoods.

Antonio Horta-Osorio, who took over as Lloyds chief exec in 2011, is set to leave at the end of April. And although his pay last year was £1m less than in 2019, it took his rewards in the job to £59.5m.

Morrissey, chief executive at Newton Investment Management for 15 years, said: ‘I am religious and I believe in redemption but he should not be returning to the same thing he just did.’

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey (pictured) is fearful that the EU is prepared to exert pressure on locally based financial firms to shift derivatives deals out of London to Continental centres.

Dame Alison Carnwath (pictured) has previously served on the boards of FTSE titans including BP and Barclays, and is currently a senior non-executive director at Zurich Insurance.

Shopping centre-landlords were in hot demand yesterday – with Birmingham Bullring (pictured) -owner Hammerson climbing almost to the top of the FTSE 250 last night.

Craig Wright (pictured), an Australian computer scientist who lives in Surrey, lost his bitcoin after hackers broke their way into his personal computer, and stole ‘keys’ to two accounts.

Royal Bank of Scotland’s vast Gogarburn complex outside of Edinburgh, widely viewed as a monument to the vanity of former chief exec Fred Goodwin, is now playing host to a food bank.

Chatbots have become increasingly common as firms struggle to keep up with a surge in enquiries from customers during the pandemic, at a time when many have fewer staff manning their call centres.

Unlike her colleagues in the photograph, Debbie McGinty (far left) has had to keep working because she was excluded from the NHS pension scheme when she went into practice nursing.

Just 25 will be produced, each with a price of £3.1million, and caries the name of one of Formula One’s most talented and courageous drivers, the late Niki Lauda.

Disinfectants Dettol and Lysol grew robustly, entering 41 new markets as customers became more conscious about protecting their health.

TSB has launched a new cashback-paying current account with a monthly fee which wipes out 60 per cent of what its holders can earn.

Open-ended property funds suffered in 2020 as shops and offices shut their doors during the pandemic – but trusts investing in warehouses and supermarkets proved popular.

It’s new KiaCharge s ‘one-stop shop’ system gives drivers of its cars access to 13,900 UK charging points at which to recharge their pure electric or plug-in petrol-electric hybrid vehicles.

If young adults ever needed a windfall, it’s now. Even a modest sum could provide a vital financial safety net – or at the very least, fund some much -deserved fun when we’re finally allowed out.

The schemes are expected to account for 10 per cent of UK online spending by 2024, the research predicts. The global report was compiled by payment processing technology provider Worldpay.

When it comes to treating customers with complete disdain, I’d like to present the telecoms companies with this year’s Oscar. I spent a couple of hours negotiating a new two-year deal with BT.

This month Netflix users will pay an extra £12 a year for a standard price plan and £24 more for its premium price plan, which allows you to use the streaming service on up to four devices at once.

Teenagers are sitting on £400m in childhood savings they may not know exist. Around 200,000 Child Trust Funds are still waiting to be claimed – with an average of £2,000 in each, figures reveal.

The society’s Loyalty Regular Saver, launched yesterday, runs for 12 months but allows you limited access to your money. You can make withdrawals during the term on one day only.

Most banks and building societies move your cash into an easy access account when your bond matures. But some reinvest your money in new fixed bonds which pay as little as 0.1 per cent.

In October 2019, eight of us booked a cottage in Somerset costing £1,200 for a short break from March 24, 2020. One of our group booked for all of us and we each gave him our £300 share.

What does Joanna Coles, (pictured) a former women’s magazine editor, have in common with US sports star Alex Rodriguez, tycoon Sir Richard Branson and Martin Luther King III?

Boris Johnson’s slow coach to Covid-19 freedom day on June 21 is cautious.It is seen by critics as eroding Britain’s hard won vaccination advantage. Yet in its own way it is bold.

The likes of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust have been in demand in the last year from retail shareholders who prefer not to buy into firms such as Apple, Facebook and Netflix directly.

Simon Peckham (pictured) said the Birmingham factory had lost more than £100m in a decade and was shedding more business because of the switch towards electric vehicles.

As Goldman Sachs said the UK economy was ‘well positioned for a near-term rebound’, the pound rose above $1.41 for the first time since April 2018 and topped €1.16 for the first time since March last year.

HSBC said it would reduce the office space it occupies by 40 per cent to cut costs and allow staff to work from home more often. It is feared the move could be highly damaging to many local economies.

While the PM’s plan includes the reopening of shops and hairdressers in April – along with pubs and restaurants serving outdoors – advice to work from home will last until at least June 21.

you’ve ever wanted to check on who’s in your house, turn up the central heating or prepare the TV, all from the comfort of your car when you’re still on the move, Mercedes-Benz has now got the answer.

The Ioniq 5 is a bold new family-size crossover to be launched under the Korean manufacturer’s ‘Ioniq’ EV sub-brand this summer.

Two thirds of UK businesses say they are optimistic about their prospects of growth in 2021, with younger business owners the most upbeat about the immediate future.

Property transactions in the UK took a tumble in January for the first time in nine months according to HMRC data, in the latest sign the pandemic-fuelled market boom is coming to an end.

A ‘technical issue’ which affected the Treasury-backed bank for most of yesterday meant many of its 25m savers were locked out, while customer services could not help over the phone either.

An increasingly popular economic idea holds that countries that issue their own currency shouldn’t worry about deficits and should pursue full employment.

Nearly three million more drivers have let their car insurance auto-renew so far this year compared to the same point of 2020 adding £2.1bn collectively to bills, GoCompare estimates.

With high profile backers including Michael Sheen and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, credit unions have long been applauded for their co-operative membership model.

The fuel would not require any modifications to a car and make existing motors as clean as electric cars, taking into account the carbon footprint from production and supply.

Young renters have been hit financially by the pandemic. With hefty deposits often a barrier to moving, companies are now offering to secure their tenancies for them – in exchange for a fee.

HSBC have not sent me a cheque, nor have they refunded me through my bank account. What should happen in this situation and how can I get them to give me my money back?

Opening a travel agent in the midst of a global pandemic may seem like a brave move but that is exactly what Sunny Heart Travel is doing.

Of all the payment options on offer, including pre-paying online, contactless smartphone transactions and using bank cards, the study found that 75% of all parking payments are made using coins.

Hubert Zanier, 47, took over his favourite cafe in 2019 when it went into administration. Little did he know, he’d have to save it again when Covid hit. Now he’s tackling Brexit.

Jean-Sebastien Jacques made £7.2m in 2020 – the most in a single year since he became chief executive in 2016. The bumper pay packet came even as his cash bonus was docked.

Melrose’s Simon Peckham will face Parliament’s business committee after his company was accused of going back on ‘the spirit’ of promises made when it bought the engineer three years ago.

Tom Hayes, a former UBS trader, served five-and-a-half years in jail. He was labelled the ‘ringmaster’ of an international conspiracy to move bank interest rates, technically known as Libor.

It said 777s that are fitted with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines should stop flying as US regulators decide rules around how often they should be inspected.

It said that after buying the Vauxhall Vivaro-e vans, 3,000 of its 12,000-strong fleet will be all-electric. Parent company Centrica has vowed to make all of its vehicles electric by 2025.

If investors approve the £3.8billion offer from Allied Universal, then command and control of the world’s largest security company, employing 530,000 people, would pass to the Pennsylvania firm.

The lender, which is slimming down its European and US operations, said Ewen Stevenson will take on responsibility for the bank’s transformation and mergers and acquisitions.

Jay-Z purchased Armand de Brignac seven years ago. And the 51-year-old, real name Shawn Carter, announced that half the business will be sold to the luxuries brand

Shops, hairdressers and gyms will be among the first to benefit from April 12 – when pubs and restaurants will also be able to run an ‘al fresco April’.

US giant Allied Universal is poised to buy the British security company for 245p-per-share, or £3.8billion, pending shareholder approval. Allied’s victory followed a three-month bidding war.

Non-essential shops, hairdressers and pubs with outdoor seating will be allowed to reopen no sooner than 12 April, while restaurants, pubs and hotels will be able to reopen from 17 May.

Having run the Climate Assets fund for the past 11 years, investment house Quilter Cheviot is not new to investing in environmentally-friendly companies.

Looking across the market, Midas has selected ten stocks that should benefit as the threat of Covid-19 recedes and life begins to return to normal.

What’s close to home, but also a good way to play the emerging opportunities in the green economy? Savannah Resources provides one possible answer.

The controversial EU Vnuk law, which requires insurance on private land for a wide range of vehicles, has been scrapped, the Government announced.

Britain’s capital rose to the number one position in Schroders’ Global Cities Index from second place last year thanks to scoring highly on environmental and social factors.

Three and Vodafone join EE and BT Mobile by announcing pay monthly and Sim-only customers will soon see an increase to their bills.

The Virgin Red scheme encourages people to visit its website or download the phone app – and buy goods and services offered by a number of online shops.

The Government has been forced to address plans to begin charging aspiring first-time buyers their own money to raid their house deposits if they run into financial difficulty.

The number of cohabiting couples submitting joint mortgage applications rose by 60 per cent in 2020. We explain what you need to ask each other before taking the plunge

Litigation firm Harcus Parker has amassed more than 6,000 investors to sue Link Financial Services, which shuttered Woodford’s £3.7billion Equity Income fund in 2019.

Nearly a fifth of members of the elite index have either restarted dividends or declared their intention to do so. Russ Mould of AJ Bell runs through the top payers, and the likelihood they will stay on course.

Interest-only mortgages have become something of a taboo ever since the 2008 crash. But could they be a short-term fix for homeowners hit financially by Covid, or is taking one out too much of a risk?

I was divorced in 2012. My ex-husband was 65 in 2013. When I claimed my state pension it did not occur to me to use his pension contributions to enhance my pension.

Interactive investors has revealed that among the 731 pots of a million pounds or more that are held with it, closed-ended funds account for 54 per cent of the average portfolio.

Senior executives at Stellantis, Vauxhall’s parent company, will decide the future of the plant, marking a critical moment for Britain’s post-Brexit manufacturing.

The Financial Conduct Authority has a lamentable record of letting down consumers and small firms, whilst failing to hold to account the likes of Neil Woodford for the losses they inflict.

The Centre for Policy Studies said the number of transactions rose from 132,090 between April and June, to 316,300 in the final quarter of 2020. It wants the new threshold to stay.

The Topshop owner was put into administration on November 30 – hours before a change in insolvency laws would have bumped HMRC up ahead of other unsecured creditors.

Chairman Dame Sharon White has already closed eight stores and cut 2,800 jobs. The mutual, which has 42 stores, is set to announce further closures, pending negotiations with landlords.

Steve Rowe said the ‘seismic upheaval’ caused by the pandemic would lead to thousands more lost jobs unless the ‘unbearable yoke’ of business rates is slashed.

Lloyds chief Antonio Horta-Osorio will this week preside over his final set of annual results before leaving the saddle at the Black Horse bank.

Guy Hands is boss of Terra Firma, the firm he set up in 2002, which has inked billions of pounds in deals, including buying and selling Odeon and William Hill.

The relaunch will be exclusive to the Asos website and the company hopes continued demand for the brand will attract large numbers of shoppers.

Fiercely private discount retailer Home Bargains paid its billionaire owner a £15.8million dividend – but declined to say yesterday whether it has accepted a business rates holiday worth twice that amount.

Groups representing insurers, banks and asset managers will urge the Government to cut red tape and offer low taxes.

While the vaccine offers huge hope, it isn’t the whole picture when it comes to getting the economy firing again., says CBI president, Lord Bilimoria.

High street giant Marks & Spencer is set to kickstart a once-in-a-generation overhaul of its clothing strategy by offering a string of top fashion brands alongside its own ranges.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the company has already begun renegotiations over the terms of the loan, which it raised from the Bank of England last spring.

When Catriona Oliphant got a phone call warning her there had been fraudulent activity on her and her elderly mother’s bank accounts, the timing could not have been worse.

Italian heiress Camilla de Bourbon is set to pay a £2million fine tomorrow as part of a bitter inheritance dispute over her mother’s €250million (£216million) trust fund.

Lord Bilimoria, president of the Confederation of British Industry, urged Boris Johnson to extend Government funding for the scheme beyond next month’s cut-off.

After almost 12 months of hunkering down as Covid-19 raged, economic recovery is on the way. Not just in the UK, but globally. Here, we identify some of the investment funds that could shine in the future.

Parents need to think ahead and make arrangements for what should happen to the property in their wills – and ideally let everyone know in advance – or risk a messy legal battle.

I have £70,000 in investment bonds with Quinshaw Group, which you wrote about recently. When Quinshaw went into liquidation, I was told my money would be returned.

The booklet, written by Personal Finance editor Jeff Prestridge, provides plenty of sound advice on how to build a financial fortress for retirement.

Lloyd’s of London is seeking an archivist to examine its vast trove of goods obtained over more than three centuries, including paintings, furniture, swords and silverware.

It took songwriter Eliot Kennedy just an hour to write 1996 hit song Say You’ll Be There for the Spice Girls – netting him more than £1million. He spoke to Donna Ferguson.

The task for Rishi Sunak when he presents the Budget on Wednesday week will be to keep the momentum going. How can he meet that challenge?

Much to the chagrin of most of his former investors, fund manager Neil Woodford is on the comeback trail. Or so he hopes.

Rishi Sunak blamed the delay on economic uncertainty, but critics damned the ‘feeble excuse’, saying the decision ‘exposed the Treasury’s lack of ideas’.

As the Treasury makes its final budget decisions, it should be buoyed by the fact that, for all the damage Covid has done to shops, education, hospitality and business, tax receipts are holding up.

According to reports, the business could float with a valuation of around £5billion, making it one of the largest and fastest tech IPOs in recent years. The firm was launched 15 months ago.

The lender said it would hand out 3p per share, in a welcome move for pension funds and savers who have been starved of income after the Bank of England imposed a ban on payouts last year.

Sterling rose as high as $1.4035 – a level last seen in April 2018 – having fallen below $1.15 last year. Confidence in the economy has been growing since the turn of the year.

While investors who entrusted the disgraced stock-picker with their savings have lost more than £1billion, the once-feted fund manager will be rebuilding his career from Marlow Place.

The French handbag and silk scarf maker said sales rose 16 per cent between October and December, considerably better than its luxury goods rivals.

Although there has been debate about how long this trend will last, Segro boss David Sleath believes spending habits have ‘potentially changed irrevocably’.

At present, private equity players may have as much as £1.7trillion of ‘dry powder’ in the form of ready cash to spend, with UK firms seen as alluringly cheap.

If we think that, despite all the bad news, the global economy will soon be improving after last year’s horror show, then we should be buying commodities.

Analysts expect the airlines conglomerate to post a loss of £4.9billion. This compares with profits of £2.6billion in 2019. The City’s main questions will be around current trading and what happens next.

Twice a year a report surfaces that names and shames underperforming investment funds, and managers ‘live in fear of being included in the kennel of shame’, according to its authors.

Insurers are expected to pay out up to £2.5billion for UK insurance claims relating to Covid-19, new research has revealed.

The German supermarket giant has eight modules with factsheets and videos hosted by one of only 408 Masters of Wine in the world, Sam Caporn.

Demand for rented rooms in London has plummeted while smaller towns such as Ipswich and Warrington are seeing huge increases, as the effects of the pandemic continue to take hold.

Investors piled this week into stocks exposed to the hot investment sectors, namely Bitcoin, COVID-19 and cannabis.

Since the stamp duty holiday came in last summer, there has been a property market mini-boom despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.