If you’re a food lover in the UK, you can’t really escape Yotam Ottolenghi. If you’ve been to a dinner party at any point since his eponymous cookbook debuted in 2008, you’ll probably have eaten his food. You would have asked your host what was being served, and you’d have received a single-word answer: “Ottolenghi”.
press release PRESS RELEASE. Victoria, Seychelles 7 Apr 2023 – Bitget, the leading crypto derivatives exchange and copy trading platform, has announced a new round of launchpad listing featuring GoSleep (ZZZ), the leading Web3 sleep and healthy living reward app on Arbitrum. The launchpad tickets for ZZZ token will be allocated on Apr 17, with
Postfinance, one of Switzerland’s largest retail banks, will offer customers access to major cryptocurrencies and related services. The state-owned financial institution will be using the banking platform developed by the Swiss-licensed digital asset bank Sygnum. Postfinance Partners With Sygnum to Provide Digital Asset Products and Services The financial services unit of the national postal service
South Korean prosecutors have identified 414.5 billion won ($314.2 million) in illicit assets associated with Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon and his associates. Out of the $314 million identified illicit assets, prosecutors have linked about 91.4 billion won ($69 million) of the specified amount to Kwon. Although Kwon amassed millions, none of the assets tied
Israeli jets bombed targets linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, after militants in the two territories fired a volley of rockets at Israel. Israel’s military said it hit several targets, including tunnels and weapons manufacturing sites, in the blockaded coastal strip in the early hours of Friday
The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter In response to America’s Inflation Reduction Act, Europe is scrambling to accelerate its own green industrial policy. Some, like Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organization and associate of Emmanuel Macron, would like to see Europe leading a green free-trading bloc
A British business registered to a terraced house in a north London suburb appears to have arranged the sale of about $1.2bn of electronics into Russia since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine at the start of 2022. Mykines Corporation LLP, a company based in the London borough of Enfield, is listed in Russian records
The saga of the Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange and the repayment of its creditors continues, as the company released a new statement as to what to expect now that its registration window has closed. On April 7, the former exchange released a statement from its rehabilitation trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi saying the deadline for creditors to provide
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has acknowledged the push that China is making to dethrone the dollar as a reserve currency. In a post published on Truth Social, Trump stated that if this comes to happen, it would be the biggest defeat in the history of the U.S. in the last 200 years. Donald Trump
Bitcoin (BTC) stuck to a narrow trading range into April 7 as crypto analysts awaited the week’s main United States macroeconomic data. $30,000 or $25,000 for Bitcoin? Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView confirmed another day’s ranging around $28,000 for BTC/USD. The pair had shunned volatility over most of the week, but now faced
The U.S. luxury brand Ralph Lauren has said customers can now pay via crypto at its Miami Design District location. The store has also been designated the luxury brand’s focal point for Web3 promotions. Bitcoin, ethereum, and polygon are among the cryptocurrencies that are accepted at Ralph Lauren’s new store in Miami. Miami Store Ralph
Peter Schiff, economist and known gold bug, believes that the current price uptick that gold is currently experiencing will extend in the future, surprising stock traders. Schiff stated that gold stocks were the new tech stocks and that Wall Street’s indifference regarding these would lead to massive market capitulation. Peter Schiff Warns of Gold Rally:
Auditors who think robust regulation of their sector is disproportionate deserve “the world’s smallest violin,” the head of the UK accounting watchdog has said. Sir Jon Thompson, chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council, told a private industry meeting earlier this year that close scrutiny was appropriate for auditors who earn hundreds of thousands of
A new protocol that allows Ethereum validators and stakers to “re-stake” their assets onto other emerging networks has just launched on testnet. The mainnet launch of the EigenLayer protocol is not expected until Q3 however, and testing will be phased in three stages to onboard various participants into the ecosystem. The first stage is using
BlackRock has started paying back investors stuck in its £3.5bn UK Property fund since early last year, even as outflows from commercial real estate funds continue and regulators warn that some funds may struggle to meet redemption requests. The US-based fund group has begun partially repaying institutional investors who made withdrawal requests as far back
Mention “fabulous Fab” in markets circles these days, and you’ll show your age. Probably only those on the far side of their mid-30s recall the Goldman Sachs banker whose jokey email came to epitomise Wall Street’s poor behaviour in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Fab is back — or rather, the regulations inspired
When we lose God, what should we do? Go shopping? Easter seems like a good time to ponder this question. The decline of organised religion in the west is one of the most striking trends of our age. But it leaves a gap. I will be going to church this Sunday, despite not believing in
An army marches on its stomach, Napoleon is supposed to have said, and to ensure that some of Ukraine’s finest soldiers can do just that, Zhenya Mykhailenko is cooking up a storm. At a clandestine kitchen near the front line, five special forces soldiers gathered around a fridge packed with freshly prepared meals. They wore
LetterOne, the investment group backed by Russian oligarchs who are under sanctions, has launched a legal challenge to overturn the decision taken by the UK government on national security grounds to force the sale of its broadband business Upp. The claim for a judicial review will be a test for the UK’s National Security and
On April 6, 2023, Bitcoin’s difficulty rose 2.23% higher at block height 784,224, touching another all-time high. It’s the fourth consecutive difficulty increase on the Bitcoin network since Feb. 24, and the protocol’s current difficulty is 47.89 trillion, which is only 2.11 trillion away from reaching the 50 trillion range. Bitcoin Difficulty Jumps 2.23% Higher
The financial and advertising regulators of the United Kingdom have teamed up to send a warning to social media “finfluencers” telling them to stop promoting illegal “get rich quick” schemes or face law enforcement. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Advertising Standards Authority (ACA) made reference to cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in its