Receive free UK banks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK banks news every morning. The UK’s top financial regulator has promised further work on bank account closures as a fierce backlash erupted over its initial assessment that politicians were not being denied access to services because of
Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. What is the economic future of China? Will it become a high-income economy and so, inevitably, the largest in the world for an extended period, or will it be stuck in the “middle
This week, Cointelegraph reporter Joe Hall takes podcast listeners back to school — Bitcoin (BTC) school. On the latest episode of Decentralize with Cointelegraph, listeners can indulge in interview snippets, soundbites and pearls of wisdom from the likes of Blockstream CEO Adam Back and Tether chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino, as well as professionals in cybersecurity and from Chainalysis.
The Carnival Miracle cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line is docked at Pier 27 in San Francisco, Sept. 30, 2022. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Carnival, Royal Caribbean— The cruise lines both gained about 2% after being upgraded by Truist. The Wall Street firm moved
Receive free Politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Politics news every morning. At least he doesn’t have to podcast. The king’s ransom he made at Bain Capital will ensure that. Whatever disappointments, indignities and mortal threats US politics has visited on Mitt Romney, his retirement needn’t be
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau ignited a firestorm on Monday when he told parliament that authorities were investigating whether “agents” of New Delhi were behind the June killing of a prominent diaspora Sikh activist in a Vancouver suburb. The allegations over the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, if corroborated by evidence, would put the world’s
As the weather gets cooler and daylight hours get shorter, our thoughts start turning toward the holidays. (There are only 65 days to Thanksgiving, after all!) That inevitably gets us pondering our holiday hosting plans. How many guests should we invite to our table? What should we serve? Do we need to make any changes
Receive free Global economic growth updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global economic growth news every morning. Central banks should hold interest rates at their current high levels or raise them further to defeat inflation, the OECD said, despite “increasingly visible” signs of economic strains and protectionism across
Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. Crude oil prices rose in morning trade on Tuesday, stretching investors’ nerves over the impact of inflation as a host of central banks prepare to announce their latest moves on interest rates. Brent crude, the
Bitcoin (BTC) could see fresh upside volatility as BTC price strength revisits key levels, a classic metric suggests. In an X post on Sep. 18, John Bollinger, creator of the Bollinger Bands volatility indicator, said that Bitcoin was positioned for a breakout decision. Bitcoin Bollinger Bands eye start of “walk up” After hitting new September
Receive free Canada updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Canada news every morning. Canada’s prime minister has said there are “credible allegations” that India’s government was involved in the fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia, citing intelligence from national security services. Justin Trudeau on
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange CoinEx has revealed that compromised private keys allowed hackers to steal over $70 million of tokens, while the team looks to open lines of communication to claw back funds. CoinEx representatives unpacked the finer details of their continuing investigation to Cointelegraph as the team works to build and deploy a new
When bailiffs threatened to change her locks out of the blue, Elizabeth’s first thought was to ring her landlord for help. But it turned out the landlord had not paid his mortgage so the single mother of three was evicted and placed in temporary accommodation by the local council in Oldham, just outside Manchester. “It’s
Receive free UK employment updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK employment news every morning. Whenever I do investigative reporting about companies that treat workers badly, there is usually someone who asks, “Why don’t they just leave then? No one is forcing them to work there, are they?”
When Sarah Cardell announced in August that a takeover she had blocked just four months earlier would be investigated afresh, she was at pains to stress that it “was not a green light” for the controversial deal. The head of the Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s competition regulator, said the announcement was a response
The lawyer responsible for laundering $400 million from the OneCoin fraud has been denied a motion seeking a new trial, despite a prosecution witness having perjured themselves in the trial against him in 2019. According to a Sept. 18 report from Bloomberg, 54-year-old lawyer Mark Scott argued that he didn’t know OneCoin was a fraudulent
You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player Here’s a puzzle for you. The UK’s capital city is one of the world’s most important financial hubs, and yet many Britons find their own money matters are blighted by poor maths. I can’t tell you the amount of times I get the, well, I couldn’t
Sir Keir Starmer has promised to try to get a “much better” Brexit deal for the UK if he wins the general election expected next year. But although the leader of the UK’s opposition Labour party described the deal negotiated by then prime minister Boris Johnson in 2020 as “far too thin”, he has ruled
Cosmos-native layer-1 blockchain Canto has become the latest chain to migrate to Ethereum as a layer 2 zero-knowledge rollup, after another layer-1 blockchain, Astar, announced similar plans moving from the Polkadot ecosystem to Ethereum. Canto is a permissionless general-purpose blockchain, which is Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible with aims to onboard the traditional financial sector to
Receive free UK labour disputes updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK labour disputes news every morning. Doctors and nurses in England could be forced to work during strikes under government plans to introduce minimum service levels to protect patient safety, health secretary Steve Barclay has announced. Ministers
Receive free Metropolitan Police Service UK updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Metropolitan Police Service UK news every morning. About 1,600 Metropolitan Police officers and staff are being investigated for alleged violence against women or sexual abuse, figures that expose the historic failure of London’s police force to