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Vodafone launches Vantage Towers float and pledges hefty dividend payouts

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Buy now, pay later schemes ‘fastest-growing online payment method in UK’

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Start-up businesses invited to join challenge to tackle poverty premium

Women in board roles

Women on FTSE boards soar 50%, but more needed in leadership roles – report

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Spotify says streaming must stay affordable to avoid ‘pushing’ people to piracy

Spotify

Music streaming giants ‘open’ to alternative ways for paying artists

SimplyCook

Nestle gobbles up UK recipe kit business SimplyCook

Coronavirus

Travel companies and shop landlords gain on hopes of end to lockdown

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Surge in holiday bookings following road map to end lockdown

Spending Review

Chancellor urged to consider corporation tax rise and public sector pay freeze

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Car firms ‘paddling furiously’ to maintain post-Brexit supply chains

Piccadilly Circus, London

Retail sales dive and expectations hit record low in shutdown

HSBC sign outside branch

HSBC improves on expectations as profits drop 34% to £6.2 billion

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Nearly £20m of fraud prevented in 2020 by banking industry-funded police unit

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Jobless rate hits 5.1% but data shows ‘early signs’ of stability

Heathrow hotels

Pandemic travel crisis drags Holiday Inn owner IHG into the red

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House sales 24.1% higher in January than same month a year earlier

Amanda Blanc

Aviva continues international withdrawal with £2.8bn sale of French business