Business

PROVIDENT Financial makes small, short-term loans to lower income borrowers. But where payday rivals such as Wonga have boomed in the digital age, “Provi” has been around since 1880. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

PARENTS are facing soaring childcare costs as the Government’s controversial business rates review heaps financial pressure on nurseries, research has shown. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

THE Government is set to unveil new safeguards that it claims will prevent privately owned firms from collapsing, such as BHS, as part of its long- awaited crackdown on corporate excess. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

PREMIER League football clubs are on track to break the £1.38billion transfer spending record for an entire season, new figures from accountancy giant Deloitte show. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

AMAZON is to offer students a six-month free trial of its Prime Student subscription service, ahead of the start of the new academic year. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

LEADING homeware retailer Lakeland is seeing sales of food preserving products soar, and detects there’s more to the spike than it being peak season for pickling and jam making. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

BRITISH surf brand Finisterre is pioneering a design project to develop the world’s first wetsuits made from discarded synthetic rubber ones. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

THE pound lifted against the euro on Friday, ahead of a crucial speech by the European Central Bank president Mario Draghi at the Jackson Hole symposium. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

THE owner of Frankie & Benny’s is expected to report another fall in profits next week, with chief executive Andy McCue expected to outline the progress of turnaround efforts. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed

THE pound is weakening this morning versus the Australian dollar ahead of this evening’s key speeches from US and Eurozone central bankers and the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium. Daily Express :: City and Business Feed