Finance

Almost a fifth of UK adults aged 50 and over believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted their retirement plans, or may do, a new study by Co-op Insurance has uncovered.

Universal Credit (UC) rules should be revamped so that renters can receive insurance payouts with no deduction to their benefits, a new report from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has suggested.

Alan Forrest shares the importance of model risk management in the banking sector

Income from workplace pensions in the UK has risen by more than third in just 10 years, analysis by financial services firm Equiniti has revealed.

Pension schemes at the UK's 100 largest listed companies were in their best financial position for 20 years at the start of the coronavirus crisis, research by Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) has found.

Blockchain technology and the trading of bitcoin were introduced in October 2008 in the famous paper by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Ian Collier and the Cashless Society Working party suggest the UK government look beyond protecting cash and instead leapfrog the vulnerable into the digital economy

How can cryptocurrency be stolen or insured when it has no physical existence? Nick Furneaux explains.

Central bank digital currencies would radically transform the way our financial systems work. Orla Ward and Ian Collier of the Cashless Society working party examine their potential.