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Riskiest payments should be slowed to stop fraud, says Nationwide
Nationwide Building Society sets up a fraud checking hotline, but says wider changes are need to halt fraud.

Grant Thornton fined £4m for Patisserie Valerie scandal
The accountancy firm has been fined £4m for audit failings of bust cake chain Patisserie Valerie

UK house prices forecast to rise by up to 3.5% a year between 2022 and 2024
Summer 2021 marked peak growth but race for space will continue, says estate agent Hamptons A second wave of demand for more space will keep driving house prices across Great Britain higher, with values set to rise by up to 3.5% a year between 2022 and 2024, a forecast claims.

China Evergrande: What the company's debt crisis means for the world
The property giant has missed an interest payment deadline, fuelling concerns that it will collapse.

‘We’ve signed Ronaldo’: could other banks follow Goldman Sachs to Birmingham?
As the bank hires nearly 100 staff in the city, the region’s mayor hopes to attract more big firms Investment bankers are rarely compared to football stars. But when the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, formally welcomed Goldman Sachs to Birmingham this month, he likened its arrival to one of

Passive investment blamed for inflating stock market bubble
Research suggests index funds have insulated US equities from threat of a sustained bear market

PwC advised DWS on sustainability while investigating greenwashing claims
Probe that dismissed concerns may have suffered from conflict of interest, whistleblower says