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UK business chiefs unite to combat workplace antisemitism as Met chief warns jews ‘not safe’ in London
JCB chairman Lord Bamford warns ministers face public revolt over £333bn welfare bill
Treasury orders review into bank branch closures as small firms count the cost
Tate & Lyle weighs £2.7bn approach from US rival Ingredion
ebay rebuffs GameStop’s surprise $55.5bn swoop
National Grid commits record £70bn to power the next decade of energy networks
UK economy defies gloom with surprise March growth as Iran war clouds outlook
Meta dealt blow by EU court in landmark ruling on publisher payments
Oil stocks drain at record pace as Iran war chokes global supply
Wayve lands government deal in race to put Britain in the self-driving fast lane

Amy Ingham

Amy is a newly qualified journalist specialising in business journalism at Business Matters with responsibility for news content for what is now the UK’s largest print and online source of current business news.

NatWest, the UK's largest business bank with 1.5 million business customers, is set to provide expedited access to loans of up to £250,000 within 24 hours of application, in response to increasing competition from alternative lenders.

Treasury orders review into bank branch closures as small firms count the cost

15 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The 150-year-old British sweeteners and ingredients group Tate & Lyle has confirmed it is in advanced discussions with the American food science giant Ingredion over a possible £2.7 billion cash takeover, a move that, if completed, would lift another household name off the London market and forge a transatlantic ingredients heavyweight valued at more than $10 billion (£8 billion).

Tate & Lyle weighs £2.7bn approach from US rival Ingredion

15 May 202614 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

For most small and medium-sized British exporters, the painful moment is rarely the order itself. It is the phone call a few days later, when the bank politely points out that the working capital required to fulfil it sits stubbornly the wrong side of an agreed credit ceiling. A career-defining contract becomes, almost overnight, a balance-sheet problem.

Hertfordshire Pharma lands £2.3m Saudi contracts after UKEF steps in to plug working capital gap

15 May 202614 May 2026 Get Funded, In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

President Donald Trump’s decision to raise US tariffs to 15 per cent has drawn sharp warnings from British business leaders, who say the move risks harming thousands of UK exporters and slowing global economic growth.

Many British exporters chasing US tariff refunds may end up with nothing

14 May 202614 May 2026 Finance, In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

GameStop, the American video game chain that became the standard-bearer of the 2021 meme stock frenzy, has stunned Wall Street with an unsolicited $55.5bn (£40.9bn) cash-and-stock offer for the online marketplace eBay, an audacious reverse takeover that would see a company worth roughly a quarter of its target attempt to swallow it whole.

ebay rebuffs GameStop’s surprise $55.5bn swoop

14 May 2026 Get Funded, News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Rachel Reeves touched down in Washington on Tuesday carrying an unwelcome piece of luggage: the International Monetary Fund's verdict that Britain is the biggest economic casualty of the Iran war among the world's wealthiest nations.

UK economy defies gloom with surprise March growth as Iran war clouds outlook

14 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Global oil stockpiles are emptying at the fastest pace ever recorded as the war in the Middle East tips the world into a deepening supply deficit, in a development that threatens to derail the recovery of Britain's small and medium-sized businesses just as they were beginning to find their footing.

Oil stocks drain at record pace as Iran war chokes global supply

14 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

GB News Radio has emerged as the fastest-growing network station in the country, with the latest RAJAR figures showing a 21 per cent surge in year-on-year reach that has pushed the upstart broadcaster decisively ahead of its closest commercial rivals.

GB News radio outpaces rivals with fastest growth on the UK airwaves

14 May 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, is in advanced talks to pump $500 million (£400m) into Wayve, a UK-based self-driving car start-up.

Wayve lands government deal in race to put Britain in the self-driving fast lane

13 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Sir Jim Ratcliffe has thrown his Ineos Grenadier into one of the most coveted defence procurement contests of the decade, gunning for a Ministry of Defence contract worth an initial £900 million to replace the British Army's ageing fleet of Land Rovers.

Ratcliffe’s Grenadier rolls into battle for MoD’s £900m Land Rover replacement

13 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Few retailers wear their politics quite so visibly as Alan Roper. Stand the managing director of Blue Diamond, the UK’s leading garden centre group, with 54 destination sites across Britain and the Channel Islands, in front of a microphone and the easy West Country charm gives way to something rather more pointed.

Alan Roper: ‘wage and tax policy has stripped £12.6m out of our profits’

12 May 2026 Entrepreneurs Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Britain's best-loved purveyor of sausage rolls is finally packing its bags for the Costas.

Greggs takes the sausage roll abroad with Tenerife debut

12 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Britain's second-hand electric vehicle market has shifted into a higher gear, with sales of used battery-electric cars climbing to a record high in the opening quarter of the year as buyers wrestling with stubbornly high pump prices reassess the cost of motoring.

Used electric car sales accelerate to record quarter as motorists seek shelter from forecourt pain

12 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Getting a large sum of money can be overwhelming no matter where it is from. You might feel excited or sad and have many questions: What should I do first? Can I retire? How can I use this wisely?

SME funded launches one-stop finance platform to plug funding gap for britain’s builders and manufacturers

11 May 202611 May 2026 Get Funded Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Construction is an industry worth $13 trillion globally, yet it remains one of the least profitable on earth. Margins of between 1 and 4 per cent are the norm, and the commercial fate of most projects is sealed long before a single foundation is poured. That uncomfortable truth has just attracted serious capital.

ProcurePro lands $11m to drag construction’s $13 trillion supply chain out of the spreadsheet era

11 May 2026 Get Funded Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Britain’s biggest business organisations have closed ranks against a wave of antisemitism sweeping the country, with 40 trade bodies and employer groups signing a joint letter pledging to root out anti-Jewish prejudice from the nation’s workplaces.

UK business chiefs unite to combat workplace antisemitism as Met chief warns jews ‘not safe’ in London

Forty UK business organisations led by the BCC and CBI sign a joint letter pledging zero tolerance of workplace antisemitism, as Met chief Sir Mark Rowley warns MPs that Jews are ‘not currently safe’ in London.

JCB chairman Lord Bamford warns ministers face public revolt over £333bn welfare bill

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