Companies agreed a record number of office moves in London last year but took less space than pre-Covid levels as groups continued to reduce their footprint and adapt to hybrid working. Office tenants signed nearly 600 new leases over 5,000 sq ft in 2022, according to data from real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield, the
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It starts with drugs, says John. Paramilitaries in his working-class area near Belfast control the trade. Young teenagers go to them for weed and cocaine, but soon they are hooked and have racked up a “strap”, or debt. They struggle to pay because they can’t get a job until they are 16, so they are
The UK is no longer investigating two of the three initial allegations against Mikhail Fridman four months after arresting the sanctioned Russian oligarch at his London mansion. The National Crime Agency, which tasked over 50 officers to raid Fridman’s multimillion home in north London in December, has stopped probing the 58-year-old businessman on suspicion of
Ethereum mainnet Archive Node service, ArchiveNode.io, said it will be shutting down, claiming that the project has been a success. On April 4, ArchiveNode.io announced it was “sunsetting” its services after more than three years of providing free Ethereum mainnet Archive Node services to developers, students, and researchers. An Ethereum Archive Node is an instance
Bitcoin (BTC) is “untouchable” despite ongoing regulatory pressures in the crypto sector and those who don’t have some crypto exposure are “seriously silly” according to Bloomberg’s senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone. During an April 3 stream with crypto podcaster Scott Melker, McGlone argued that unlike other cryptocurrencies such as Ether (ETH), Bitcoin couldn’t be killed
The storied mansion where former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy stayed following the assassination in 1963 of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, is listed for $26.5 million. She bought the 18th-century residence in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., known as the Baker House, to be her personal home, but decided to relocate a year
A senior People’s Bank of China (PBOC) official has urged regulators to consider cryptocurrency risks and fraud that could lead to bank failures when innovating regulation. The Chinese official highlighted the recent collapse of U.S. banks that provided services to crypto customers as an example. “The regulation philosophy, technology, and capability must be upgraded to
A new decentralized layer has been added on top of Ethereum to make smart accounts possible with the introduction of ERC-4337 and account abstraction — but infrastructure providers suggest it may be tricky to participate profitably right now. ERC-4337, commonly called “smart accounts” or “account abstraction” was deployed on the Ethereum mainnet on March 1.
The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are exploring ways to decrease their countries’ dependence on the U.S. dollar and promote the use of local currencies in trade settlements. “We must remember the sanctions imposed by the US on Russia,” said Indonesian President Joko Widodo. ASEAN Countries
JPMorgan Chase executives allegedly joked about Jeffrey Epstein’s interest in young girls while the disgraced financier was a client of the US banking giant, lawyers for the US Virgin Islands have claimed in a new court filing. The accusation is part of an expanding lawsuit brought by the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a
Ron Paul, a former U.S. representative and member of the Libertarian Party, has addressed recent events directed to undermine the influence of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency in international markets. Paul believes that even if this does happen, it will probably take more time than some predictions are saying. Ron Paul Analyzes Fall
Imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has not yet received a consular visit from American officials, but official human rights monitors affiliated with the Russian government say he is reading Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman while in pretrial detention at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison. In the first account of his condition in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison
Lord Lawson of Blaby, who has died at the age of 91, was one of the most consequential and longest-serving British chancellors of the 20th century, playing a pivotal role in Margaret Thatcher’s free-market revolution. Revered by the Tory right and an inspiration to current prime minister Rishi Sunak, Nigel Lawson pushed through a vigorous
The water industry regulator has fined just one privatised utility for breaching regulations designed to prevent sewage spills in England since the rules came into force almost 30 years ago, according to official data. Despite hundreds of thousands of sewage spills into rivers and coastal waters in recent years, Ofwat’s only fine for breaching the
INX has launched its first securities token issued by a public company, according to an Apr. 3 announcement from the tokenization platform. Public company shares on the blockchain?Witness the future in action!Proud to team up with @Greenbriarcorp to tokenize its GEBRF traditional shares in an industry-first!https://t.co/sS4p5MIwa3 — INX (@INX_Group) April 3, 2023 The new token
Nigel Lawson, the long-serving Conservative chancellor whose radical tax-cutting Budgets of the late 1980s inspired a Tory generation, has died at the age of 91. Lord Lawson was an iconic figure for the Tory right and Rishi Sunak, prime minister, led the tributes to a man whose economic policies underpinned the Thatcher revolution. “One of
Blackstone clients asked to pull $4.5bn from a closely followed real estate fund in March, even as the firm’s executives were promoting investment opportunities in the sector that they said would arise from US economic turbulence. Withdrawal requests at the $70bn fund, called Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, rose 15 per cent in
On Monday, Twitter users noticed that the traditional blue bird logo had been replaced by a cartoon picture of Doge. Meanwhile, the leading meme coin cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, jumped 23% higher against the U.S. dollar after the logo change. Twitter Bird Logo Changes to Doge Twitter has updated its logo, replacing it with a picture of
Cryptocurrency markets have been trading within an unusually tight 5% range since March 17 as conflicting forces continue to pressure the sector. Consequently, in the past 7 days, the total market capitalization gained 3.8%, which was driven mainly by Bitcoin’s (BTC) 3.6% price increase and Ether’s (ETH) 5% gain. On March 27, the Commodity Futures
In this article HOOD SBNY SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A woman leaves a Signature Bank branch on March 13, 2023 in New York City. The bank was closed by regulators Sunday. Leonardo Munoz | View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images The sudden failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
Municipals were firmer in spots to kick off the week, while U.S. Treasury yields fell and equities ended mixed. Triple-A yields fell one to four basis points Monday while USTs were stronger by up to 10 basis points to close the session. The two-year muni-Treasury ratio was at 60%, the three-year at 61%, the five-year