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Stephen Bibby will succeed him as head of capital markets in Scotland READ SOURCE...

HSBC has slashed its forecasts for future wholesale gas prices in response to mild weather in Europe – raising hopes of a sharp decline in household energy bills.The bank cut its 2023 forecasts for the price of gas traded in...

India's foreign exchange reserves fell by $1.268 billion in the first week of the year to $561.583 billion.Foreign currency assets, the major component of reserves, fell by $1.747 billion while reserves held in gold rose $461 million, Reserve Bank of...

Completion times for applications to update the land register are ranging from minutes to eight months, according to Land Registry's latest performance update. To highlight the sheer scale of the number of applications Land Registry deals with on a daily...

Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai’s London-based international legal team have revealed they received rape and death threats which they allege were orchestrated by the Beijing authorities.  Lai, 75, who is a British citizen, has been...

January is the month of beginnings. It is that time of the year when we assess our lifestyle, chalk out life plans and goals, look at finances, work towards building new habits, etc. Of all the aspirations, money management is...

A solicitor currently serving 12 years’ imprisonment has been struck off the roll for his previous contempt of court. The SRA alleged that Stephen David Jones acted in contempt by breaching several court orders from March 2019 issued by Mr...

The beginning of 2022 saw both the crypto market cap and the non-fungible token (NFT) market reaching incredibly healthy status. Crypto reached a strong $2.5 trillion in value, and NFTs peaked after 2021’s exponential growth.As in previous crypto bull markets,...

Gamza Khanzadaev AI project on Cardano, SingularityNET, unveils ADA plans after its token AGIX soars 150% in 2023 SingularityNET, the artificial intelligence project being developed on Cardano, has unveiled plans to enable cross-chain interoperability on Ethereum and Cardano. The platform's...

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One of the few firms to emerge from the wreckage of Metamorph has vowed to do everything it can to stay in business. Parrott & Coales, based in Aylesbury, is one of three firms owned by the Metamorph Group which...

Ros Atkins explains how the crisis in the NHS connects to long-term issues within social care. READ SOURCE...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsA US Supreme Court hearing that challenges the liability shield protecting Big Tech companies like...

EY has acquired eBorn Consulting Private Limited, a SAP solutions provider, to strengthen its technology consulting practice as client demand for tech transformation services has increased multifold after the Covid-19 pandemic. In the last four years, the firm has aggressively...

A report published this week reveals unexplained sightings from US Navy and Army pilots (Credit: Getty)The US government says it has received over 350 new reports of UFOs since March 2021, and can’t explain half of them. These reports, mostly...

The computer scientist who claims to have invented the bitcoin digital currency has indicated that he will contest a criminal contempt charge over the alleged breach of an embargo on a libel judgment. In a directions hearing yesterday, counsel for...

Wacl has introduced patrons and defined five areas for change in the communications industry. READ SOURCE...

In their first year of existence, a third of apps (32%) carry security flaws, and by the age of five, this number grows to more than two-thirds (70%), new research has found. A new report from Veracode found businesses need to...

European stocks edged higher and Wall Street futures slipped on Friday after US inflation eased further in December, boosting the chances of a smaller interest rate rise when the Federal Reserve meets later this month. The regional Stoxx Europe 600...

A 36-year-old woman from Thane city was allegedly cheated of Rs 22.67 lakh by a person who had befriended her on Facebook, police said on Friday. A case in this regard was registered on Thursday, said an official. The woman,...

BEIJING -- China's auto sales rose 9.5% last year as electric vehicle purchases nearly doubled, but demand in the global industry's biggest market slumped in December, foreshadowing weaker growth this year, a trade group reported Thursday.Sales of SUVs, sedans and...

Marianne Daly has turned to an ancient staple to help the women of west Belfast weather the cost of living crisis: lentils.At the Footprints Women’s Centre she teaches her students that the legume, one of humanity’s oldest sources of food,...

The Conservative backbencher Andrew Bridgen was never the most glittering star in the political firmament. You might recall him from such hits as wrongly suggesting that any English person could ask for an Irish passport post-Brexit, or posting a raunchy...

The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine PRO, Bitcoin Magazine's premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now.Although it...

A Hong Kong investor filed a $100mn claim against Chinese developer Kaisa, signalling the mounting legal pressure on real estate companies that defaulted on their international debts last year during a sector-wide liquidity crisis. In a filing in New York,...

Inflation Cools, Industrial Growth Bounces Back In twin relief for India’s economy, retail inflation eased more than expected to a 12-month low in December while industrial growth swung to a five-month high in November from a contraction in the preceding...

New federal court rules barring media from accessing documents until the first directions hearing have been labelled “utterly disgraceful” and a breach of the concept of “open” justice.Enacted in mid-December by federal court judges without consulting the media and published...

Commercial aircraft maker Airbus is testing a suite of new automated technology that has the potential to improve the safety and efficiency of flying. According to Airbus, the autonomous technology, which has been...

Why does chocolate feel so good? Well, it’s all down to how it’s lubricated by fat and saliva, a team of engineers has revealed. The researchers studied the processes in play when chocolate melts in the mouth, changing from a...

Gilt mutual funds are likely to offer superior returns in 2023 as the RBI is likely to pause rate hikes soon, believe mutual fund advisors. Gilt funds have the potential to offer double-digit returns in a falling interest rate scenario....