Budgeting stories

UK households under strain as survey finds finances worsening, bill payments missed and £23 billion in support still unclaimed.

Payhawk survey finds 45% of self-described AI leaders in finance lack minimum use rules, exposing a wider gap between ambition and control.

Dig adds Ideal World Co-founder Paul Wright to its board as the savings platform pushes into consumer tech and digital shopping.

European workers embrace AI on the job, but most fear personal data is being used to train tools and many have already seen errors.

UK households face GBP £6.85 billion in higher essential bills from April as council tax, water and telecoms costs climb, Uswitch warns.

Spendesk appoints Quentin Vigneau as Chief Product Officer and Alan Wright as Chief Technical Officer as it expands AI plans after first full year of profit.

Kong hires veteran finance chief Bruce Felt, whose record of steering three software groups to IPOs bolsters its expansion in API and AI tools.

Starling launches an in-app agentic AI assistant for personal accounts, claiming a UK first in conversational money management tools.

UK credit card spending drops in January while missed and repeat payments rise, signalling persistent strain on household finances.

Multiverse launches CompactifAI API portal, giving dev and ops teams self-serve access to compressed LLMs with tighter control and insight.

Many 'AI-ready' finance teams lack basic rules and trusted data, leaving advanced tools underused in core processes, research finds.

AI 'leaders' in finance rush to pilots but lack rules, data and governance to scale tools into core, high‑accountability workflows.

IMP Software has unveiled IMP Finance, a MAT-first unified platform aiming to streamline budgeting, purchasing, workforce planning and finance.

LivTech hires Ron Kozlin as CFO and Andrew Goode as VP of Development to steer its fast-growing senior care software business.

On International Women's Day 2026, Give to Gain calls for women's financial knowledge and autonomy to be treated as a fundamental right.

Manchester's mid-sized firms are stalling investment and expansion, citing volatile costs, policy shifts and tougher access to finance.

UK firms ramp up travel and AI investment in 2025, even as advertising spend plunges 28%, signalling a sharper focus on productivity.

CFOs shift from hiring to hardware, funnelling bigger budgets into tech, AI and sales while HR, headcount and pay growth lose momentum.

CFOs are funnelling 2026 budgets into tech, AI and sales, while easing back on hiring, HR spending and rapid pay growth.

AI fintech Cleo stages UK comeback with a waitlisted app, betting its chatty budgeting assistant can ease mounting money anxiety.