News

• Chancellor u-turns on national insurance hike plans (CityAM)
• Debbie Wosskow stands down from Sharing Economy UK, which now joins CBI (Real Business)
• The majority of gig-economy workers want employment rights such as holiday and sick pay - but they're still happy (CityAM on CIPD polling)
• One in five SMEs miss new business opportunities due to lack of finance (Fresh Business Thinking on Aldermore polling)
• Not accepting card payments costs SMEs £23,000 each year (Elite Business on Expert Market polling)

Opinion

• Business rates rise is the biggest scandal of Philip Hammond's budget (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
• Shoreditch startups face the same fate as the artists before them (Toby Kress, Head of Accelerator London)
• Why businesses should embrace the Apprenticeship Levy (Frances Dickens, founder, Astus Group)
• High growth can't paper over the culture cracks (Hugo Burge, CEO, Momondo Group)
• Fintechs have a solution post-Brexit - now we must embrace the uncertainty (Cameron Stevens, chief executive, Prodigy Finance)
• The false idols: Silicon Valley's unicorns aren't to be emulated (Francois Badenhorst, deputy editor, Business Zone)

Features

• Business Zone: The pregnancy trap: women business owners face uphill battle
• BQ: How we made PCA Predict such a success (profile of CFE Fellow Guy Mucklow)
• Tech City News: Five UK firms disrupting the insurance sector