Barclays to buy ING Direct’s UK retail banking business
Barclays has struck a deal to buy ING Direct’s UK retail banking business.
UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5%
The Bank of England has kept UK interest rates at 0.5%
West Coast Main Line deal scrapped after contract flaws discovered
The decision to award the UK’s multi-billion-pound West Coast Main Line rail franchise to FirstGroup has been scrapped by the UK government.
Pension auto-enrolment starts for the UK’s largest firms
Auto-enrolment (automatic enrolment) into a workplace pensions starts today (1 October 2012) for companies with 120,000 or more staff.
Automatic enrolment set to double private pension income
Automatic enrolment (often referred to as auto-enrolment) could almost double private pension income (also referred to as personal pension income)