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BUSINESS LIVE: Aviva buys Probitas; Hipgnosis portfolio worth minimize

Among the businesses with studies and buying and selling updates right this moment are Aviva, Clarkson, THG, Vertu Motors, Wizz Air, Hipgnosis Songs Fund, AstraZeneca, Halma and Intertek Group.

CBI requires mileage allowance ‘stealth tax’ to be scrapped in Budget

The CBI has known as for a mileage allowance ‘stealth tax’ to be scrapped in Wednesday’s Budget after figures urged it was inflicting some workers to refuse to take their vehicles on enterprise journeys.

Approved Mileage Allowance Payments (AMAP) permit corporations to reimburse round two million employees for utilizing their vehicles or vans for enterprise journeys with out incurring any further taxes.

Banks set to report 1m instances of fraud in a 12 months

The variety of studies about suspected fraud filed by banks is ready to hit a million a 12 months for the primary time, the Mail can reveal.

Fraud is one motive people or corporations might have their account forcibly shut down, in any other case generally known as being ‘debanked’.

The FTSE 100 Index opened at 7682.50

The pound at 8am was 1.2677 {dollars} in comparison with 1.2651 {dollars} on the earlier shut.