1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (722+ words) Angela Rayner has warned Reform UK that its record £72m fundraising haul from two cryptocurrency billionaires could be caught by retrospective rules being pushed through parliament. The housing secretary said new restrictions on political donations from Britons living abroad, or those…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (558+ words) Apple and Google have defended their child safety records after the government said it would force tech giants to block under-18s from sending or viewing nude images on smartphones. The Silicon Valley pair told City AM they had made progress…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (266+ words) City AM In December 2009, ratings agency Fitch downgraded Greek sovereign debt from A- to BBB+ following a dramatic few weeks in which the state of the country’s public finances were laid bare. By February, riot police in Athens were firing stun…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (320+ words) Cast your eye over Nigel Farage’s CV and you realise he is a man who never seems far from danger. At the start of his career in 1982 he joined the notorious US investment bank Drexel as a commodities trader. Drexel…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (151+ words) Andy Burnham has said an uplift in defence spending will not come “at the expense” of benefits. During Prime Minister’s Questions, Burnham said “national security can’t come at the expense of social security” in response to attacks from Tory leader…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (451+ words) Replit, the $9bn (£6.64bn) US AI coding start-up, has picked London for its first international office as the capital continues to attract some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing AI companies. The San Francisco-based company has opened in King’s Cross and will use London…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (665+ words) Christopher Rokos was Britain’s third largest individual taxpayer last year, handing over an estimated £330m. Now he’s moved to Greece and no British government seems to have a plan to replace that revenue, says Damian Pudner So, Chris Rokos is off…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (266+ words) Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports are among the most-impacted after a “technical issue” grounded scores of flights across the UK. Britain’s air traffic control service, Nats, said just before 2pm it was investigating a fault which had delayed departures across…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (468+ words) The UK is at risk of its booming financial services industry being governed overseas after lagging behind international rivals in digital asset innovation, a new report has warned. Banking industry body UK Finance has issued a rallying call to policymakers…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (473+ words) Tokenisation will reshape market infrastructure whatever we do – the question is whether the UK wants to shape it or adapt to decisions made elsewhere, writes Bob Wigley The UK has entered a new phase in the tokenisation of capital markets....