'I'm amazed as this is a super-rich person. We're not talking about someone who is on his uppers'

The German carmaker asks new UK customers to agree a possible 10% price rise for post-Brexit deliveries.

German car firm wants 'clarity on future relations between the UK and the EU'

Addiction experts say time lag is being exploited to circumvent bank limits PayPal has been accused of letting problem gamblers spend up to £150,000 a day, prompting concerns that addicts are using the online payment system to circumvent bank limits. MPs and gambling experts called for the company to be more responsible to stop people racking up huge debts that could force them into bankruptcy.

SFO alleges Maroun Semaan was complicit in six counts of multi-million dollar scheme The co-founder of the oil company Petrofac has been posthumously accused of taking part in a scheme to pay multi-million dollar bribes to secure contracts. The Serious Fraud Office’s allegations against Maroun Semaan,

Fears of no-deal Brexit prompt 50 firms with UK operations to seek to use EU regulators The threat of a no-deal Brexit has prompted a slew of chemicals companies to move regulatory approvals from the UK to the EU to protect their ability to do business legally. More than 50 British chemicals companies with operations in the UK have applied to use EU regulators for critical authorisations that will become worthless if there is no transition arrangement following 29 March, the planned date of Brexit, according to data provided to the Guardian by the European commission.

The trouble, sadly, is that it often takes a hefty clobbering for companies to start behaving in a more ethically responsible manner.

The company has signed up Stuart Delivery – a subsidiary of French postal giant La Poste – to operate Zoom which promises grocery orders to the doorstep within the hour.

Tenants and others who found unusual ways to keep a roof over their head in an era of record costsRenting a property in the UK can be a bleak business. The average monthly rent rose to £932 last month and in London it is even more expensive at £1,588, according to new figures. It is of little surprise then that more young people are choosing to stay in the family home. Recent research showed nearly a million more young adults live with their parents than was the case two decades ago. The proportion of people aged 20 to 34 who live with their parents has risen from 19% in 1997 to 25% in 2017 – some 3.4 million people, according to the thinktank Civitas. With spiralling rents leaving many people with barely any disposable income, let alone the means to save towards a deposit, some are now choosing alternatives.

Even a great aeronautical achievement like a superjumbo can be brought low by the vagaries of economics When Concorde ceased commercial flights in 2003, it marked a peculiar moment in the history of human technological endeavour. When it comes to inventions that improve our lives, we are used to a linear trajectory. Medicines enhance life expectancy, vehicles become more efficient and reliable, computers more powerful and user-friendly.

Many lenders may report decent results this week. But this is no time for long-suffering shareholders to relaxThere is an old Lloyds Bank television commercial featuring those darlings of the 1980s sitcom, Jan Francis and Nigel Havers. Francis’s character has just bought a house from Havers and the ad has the pair bumping into each other at the supermarket checkout. The encounter prompts Francis to give Havers a few unsolicited personal finance lessons, by explaining how her new Lloyds banking card means she has to write fewer cheques (it’s debatable whether the ad is dated more by the plot or the actors).