Banks

Funding Circle and Atom Bank Partner to Provide Funding to UK SMEs

Funding Circle, a UK SME lending platform, and Atom bank, the UK app-based bank, have joined forces in a lending partnership that will offer up to approximately £150million in funding to small […]

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Economy

The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought

Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the element. Obese people experience discrimination in many parts of their lives, and the workplace […]

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Banks

Financial Institutions Embrace Generative AI: A New Frontier in Financial Services

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining ground in the financial services sector, with nearly three-quarters of financial firms actively piloting this transformative technology, a study has revealed. Research conducted by UK Finance […]

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Сryptocurrencies

Crypto Calamity? Industry Reacts as Binance CEO Pleads Guilty to Charges and SEC Sues Kraken

The past week appears to have dealt numerous heavy blows to the crypto industry as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged popular crypto trading platform Kraken as an unregistered securities exchange, […]

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Economy

How will America’s economy fare in 2024? Don’t ask a forecaster

Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the element. November brings with it the beginning of the end of the year. The […]

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Special EU envoy says US sanctions are worsening Cuba’s human rights crisis – JURIST

EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore, co-chaired the EU-Cuba human rights dialogue in Cuba, on Thursday. Gilmore stated that the agenda “recognised the impact of the [US] embargo, and called […]

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Economy

Another crypto boss falls

Fictional money, a shot at inordinate riches and a good chance of landing in jail at some point. That, in a nutshell, is the popular board game of Monopoly. But it describes […]

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Сryptocurrencies

Mastercard and Feedzai Combat Crypto Fraud as AML Challenges Remain

Feedzai, the financial crime and risk management solution, and global payments technology company Mastercard are combining technologies to increase crypto fraud protection for hundreds of millions of consumers. An estimated 40 per […]

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Thailand cabinet approves bill to recognize same-sex marriages – JURIST

The Prime Minister of Thailand announced Tuesday that his cabinet approved a bill to provide legal recognition to same-sex marriages. According to Thai media, government spokesperson Karom Polpornklang provided details about the […]

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Banks

Plum and Finder Explore Global Interest Rates, as UK Banks Fail to Keep Savings Accounts Up to Speed

Many of the largest banks in the UK appear to be low-balling the interest rates offered on their easy-access savings accounts – with them also significantly lower than in other European countries; […]

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Germany expert commission releases report recommending legalization of early-stage abortion and amended laws for later-term pregnancies – JURIST

The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine in Germany on Monday submitted a final report recommending the legalization of abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the country.The German […]

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Australia judge rules in defamation trial that former government adviser raped a colleague in parliament – JURIST

Australia Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that former government adviser Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in a Parliament House office on Monday. The judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit Lehrmann brought against […]

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Poland classifies attack on humanitarian aid workers as murder, demands Israeli cooperation in investigation – JURIST

The Polish government on Friday labeled the death of Polish aid worker Damian Soból as murder, following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) serving in […]

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Amnesty International urges immediate investigation into war crimes in Merawi, Ethiopia – JURIST

Amnesty International asserted Friday that African and global human rights bodies must urgently investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) in the town of Merawi, Amhara region, […]

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