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A decision on whether to introduce a so-called 'Britcoin' digital pound is to be made by 2025, the Treasury has announced, as a consultation paper has found one is "likely to be needed in the future".

The bosses of Britain's biggest housebuilders will hold talks with the chancellor this week as they face a multibillion-pound bill in the form of several new levies.

Administrators have selected a rival battery start-up based in Australia as preferred bidder for collapsed Britishvolt.

The bosses of Britain's leading commercial banks - Barclays, NatWest, HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group - appear before the Treasury select committee of MPs on Tuesday.

A member of the Bank of England committee that sets Bank rate has urged her colleagues to stay the course in the battle against inflation, warning against the prospect of a "policy boogie" ahead.

Gousto, the meal-kit delivery service, has cut its valuation after raising tens of millions of pounds in additional funding to steer it through a volatile economic period.

The German automotive giant BMW is in talks with the government about a £75m funding package that would secure production of electric Minis at its Oxfordshire plant.

People have been urged to delete TikTok from their phones, with the chair of Britain's foreign affairs committee warning that "we are being naive" about the threat posed by the app.

Netflix has said that updated measures to crack down on password sharing were posted by mistake.

Google looks set to unveil how it plans to rival the wildly successful ChatGPT AI, possibly within days.