Opening the Building Societies Association (BSA) Annual Conference at The Sage, Gateshead today, Robin Fieth, BSA Chief Executive will say to delegates that a lack of trust still pervades modern society, whether in banking, taxation, international relations or domestic politics.  But research shows that the building society movement stands out as one of the most trusted part of the financial services sector.

Seven months after the BSA published its first interim report on the issues being faced by borrowers in their forties and fifties onwards, well over half of the UK’s building societies will now lend to borrowers up to or over the age of 80.

Trade union GMB slams the Government for creating an economy ‘built on the insecurity of the workforce.’

Britain’s building societies are well placed to help stem the nation's personal debt crisis at a grassroots level with better financial education for young people, according to a new report by the charity, MyBnk.  

EU nationals, who may have lived in Britain for a few days or a few decades, are unable to vote in the 23 June referendum.

The Government has published a White Paper which includes proposals on the future of Innovate UK.

Research conducted by the charity Independent Age shows vast inequalities among pensioners, with 950,000 over-75s living below the poverty line. 

As the much anticipated Anti-Corruption Summit kicks off, Melanie Mylvaganam, Policy Analyst at the Bar Council, explains how the Bar guards against money laundering and terrorism financing in the UK.

Ed Miliband's former adviser, Lord Wood of Anfield, writes that with just six weeks to go until the European Referendum, debate should be 'based on differences of philosophy, purpose and policies' not knocking lumps out of political opponents.

Ahead of his debate today, Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop explains to PoliticsHome why it’s in the industry’s interest to slow down the process of selling Tata Steel.

Since the government began enforcing the National Minimum Wage in April 1999, HM Revenue & Customs has identified £68 million in arrears for over 313,000 workers, according to today’s report from the National Audit Office. The number of workers identified as being owed arrears in 2015-16 was 58,000 compared to 26,000 in 2014-15.

The report ‘Britain at Work 2016’ by reputation management consultancy Lansons and insight agency Opinium reveals that around a quarter of UK employees, equivalent to 6 million people, have taken time off work in the last 12 months due to stress brought about as a consequence of doing their job.

The global internet community is set to introduce a new and more sophisticated level of internet security and Bacs is again warning businesses to act now to avoid losing access to vital payment services when internet security changes from 13 June 2016.

- ƒTotal consumer spending increases by +2.5% year-on-year in April

- ƒƒE-commerce growth rate of +8.4% year-on-year but face-to-face expenditure is broadly flat (+0.2% year-on-year)

- ƒƒClothing and footwear sees biggest fall in year-on-year spending since September 2014

A new £1.2 million fund has been set up to help small and innovative UK firms to work with international businesses, seek out new global markets and supply chains, innovation agency Innovate UK announced today.

New research has found that Brexit could cause a pay cut across the country – and especially in London.

The Trade Union Bill has received parliamentary approval (Royal Assent) and becomes the Trade Union Act 2016.

The Enterprise Bill has now received parliamentary approval (Royal Assent) and becomes the Enterprise Act.

The Building Societies Association welcomes the new 'diversity objective' outlined in the Bank of England & Financial Services Act for improving competition and resilience in financial services, but urges MPs to help monitor its impact.

Unite, the UK’s biggest union, is today calling on the government to scrap plans to replace NHS bursaries with loans amid warnings that it will cause workforce crisis and turmoil within the NHS.

Labour MP Andrew Gwynne talks to PoliticsHome about closing a loophole in nineteenth-century taxi licensing laws which currently enables previous offenders to drive cabs unchecked. 

Financial education for the next generation, and a new ethical marketplace for lending, are required to halt the ‘massive’ growth in debt among self-employed, low earners and students, says ACCA.

Less than half of businesses know who their most profitable customers are and two thirds of businesses admit to not measuring the profitability of their channels to market

£1.6 billion has been lent by responsible finance providers over the past 10 years according to our new report published today.