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Savings rates are on the rise but even if you do find a best buy, dont get complacent because theres inflation is running at steam.

After slashing payouts as the Covid crisis hit, companies are now bringing back their dividends.  Dividends from UK-listed firms jumped a 51.2 per cent to £25.7bn between March and June, according to the latest UK Dividend Monitor from Link Group. This beat its expectations but the total payout remains a sixth below its pre-pandemic average levels. Mining and banking accounted for two-thirds of the increase, according to the report, while the oil sector acted as a brake. However, oil big guns...

Personalized menopause platform Vira Health raises £1.5M from LocalGlobe, MMC Ventures A new trend is emerging in the world of startups and, to many, it couldn’t have come too soon. Why are there so few women in senior roles? Women going through menopause are commonly known to drop out of leadership roles, for instance. In the UK, menopause is responsible for about 14 million lost working days and 1 million premature career exits, according to research. Indeed, we only just reported on the n...

Soldo, the leading European pay and spend automation fintech closes record $180m Series C funding round led by Temasek USA - English Share this article - The investment round is the largest to date in the spend management category - The Series C funding will be used to accelerate international expansion and product development LONDON, July 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Soldo, the leading European pay and spend automation platform, today announces that it has closed a $180m oversubscribed Series C f...

Soldo raises $180M for its business expense management platform Expense management has long been a pain point for employees and accounting departments: for many, tracking and parsing how money is spent on behalf of a company is just too bogged down in legacy software ill-equipped to handle more modern demands. Today, a U.K. startup building solutions to bring the process into the 21st century is announcing a major round of funding to double down on its growth. Soldo, which provides a platform t...

Soldo Closes Record $180 Million Series C Funding Round July 21, 2021 @ 2:00 am By JD Alois Solda has raised $180 million in a Series C funding round led by Singapore-based Temasek. The European pay and spend automation platform reports that the investment round is the largest in its category to date. The funding round included new investors Sunley House Capital, Advent International’s crossover fund, and Citi Ventures. Existing investors also participated including Accel, Battery Ventures, D...

Everybody thinks they have a book in them, is the old saying, but I reckon nowadays theres a new version of that: Everybody thinks they have a business in them.

Now Ive re-emerged blinking into the sunlight after the countrys third lockdown, its time for the resumption of one of my favourite forms of newsgathering: looking at adverts on the tube.

The team dig into the statistics, deliver a theory on how much you might need to hold to bag at least one prize a year, and look at whether Premium Bonds are worth having.

Argonaut Capitals Barry Norris says this year will be better for old economy company, value and commodities investors and one asset that could be hit hard is cryptocurrency.