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Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, is not given to emotional outbursts or shooting from the hip.

More families are setting up trusts to avoid paying inheritance tax, figures from HMRC suggest.

John Healey, the defence secretary, has held urgent talks with the boss of Leonardo, the Italian defence contractor, amid fears for thousands of jobs at a military helicopter factory in Somerset.

The housebuilder Barratt Redrow, Heathrow Airport and the outsourcing giant Mitie are among a group of businesses backing the launch of a coalition aimed at tackling barriers to investment in local areas across Britain.

The Bank of England has held interest rates at 3.75% but signalled that further cuts are now "likely" later in the year as inflation falls back to the Bank's 2% target faster than expected.

The Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates was short on action but strong on signals that a rate cut this spring is now more likely than not.

NatWest will close more than 30 bank branches this year and next.

A wealth platform which targets professionals whose finances are becoming increasingly complex is raising nearly £8m from a syndicate of investors.

US newspaper The Washington Post is making a third of its staff redundant, bosses at the title have said.

The London-listed company which wants to extract one of the world's largest tungsten deposits from a site in Devon is in talks with investors to raise tens of millions of pounds from a share sale.

Barclays and NatWest will this week fire the next shots in the battle to acquire Evelyn Partners, one of the UK's biggest wealth managers.

The FTSE-100 oil giant Shell is close to unveiling a revamped boardroom pay policy which would see its boss handed a multimillion-pound annual pay incentive.

Food and drink giant Nestle has recalled a further batch of its SMA baby formula due to concerns about the presence of a vomit-inducing toxin.

An automated foreign exchange risk management platform which protects clients against volatile currency markets will this week announce a funding injection of almost $25m.

Our Money team interview top chefs from around the UK every month, hearing about their cheap food hacks, views on the industry and more.

The bosses of English football's new watchdog will next week pitch up to a summit of the game's most powerful clubs as they await the outcome of the probe into alleged financial improprieties at Manchester City.

The UK's information watchdog will investigate reports that Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has been used to generate sexual imagery of children.

The world's second-largest economy and major electric car maker is to ban hidden door handles, a common feature on electric vehicles (EVs).

A financial and property technology business which integrates elements of the homebuying process has clinched a $25m funding injection as it seeks to accelerate its expansion.

SpaceX has announced it has acquired artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a deal that that brings together two companies owned by Elon Musk.