We are delighted to announce that we are finalising a new round of financing in the Business First brand that will allow us to achieve our ambition of making Business First a leading business media property [...]

We now know that a cap on bankers’ bonuses will be imposed by our European friends, against the UK’s wishes. Whilst our government has seen some very welcome recent successes in Europe, I fear [...]

From a recent letter to the FT: “Sir, Robert Skidelsky and Marcus Miller (Letters, February 27) consider that the Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Hayek offered a “counsel of despair” in the Great Depression. Next, [...]

The 2013 Finance Bill will shortly introduce major changes to the treatment of non-UK domiciled individuals who own, or wish to purchase, valuable UK property through offshore structures. These structures, termed ‘non-natural persons’, include [...]

In difficult times, businesses need to use their resources far more carefully in the bid to secure new clients, generate sales growth and deliver tangible ROIs. Throwing a load of marketing spend at the [...]

There are very few areas of business where the contribution of one man is universally regarded as having been critical to an industry’s growth and success. In the case of factoring, that man is [...]

Rags to riches may be a tired cliché in the world of business, but sometimes it is the only phrase that works. Rory Ross meets a man who in his lifetime has made a [...]

It is a little over ten years since Argentina defaulted on its debt, the culmination of decades of economic mismanagement . Since then, the country’s fortunes have been improving steadily. Yet for all its [...]

The near-universally admired Olympics Opening Ceremony highlighted Britain’s rural and industrial heritage, the NHS and Britain’s dynamic culture, past and present. Nick Barron says that, of the four, culture is by far the most important, particularly for London. [...]

Ruby McGregor-Smith is CEO of MITIE, the £2bn facilities company. Did she get there despite her refusal to conform to other people’s expectations, or because of it? Nick Peters reports. In the box-ticking, pigeon-holing age [...]