Octopus Group founder: Financial services is still the least trusted industry in the world August 29, 2024 Every week, Charlie Conchie sits down with the biggest movers and shakers in financial services, tech and fintech. This week, it's Octopus Group co-founder and CEO Simon Rogerson
Britain needs to rediscover the joy of risk and reward March 8, 2023 This time next week, no doubt, your fingernails will be bitten to the quick in anticipation of Jeremy Hunt’s budget. Should you be able to wait no longer, we offer you our best informed prediction: don’t get too excited. In some ways, a muted ‘fiscal event’ sums up Britain and Westminster at the moment. There [...]
Network Rail told to shape up as watchdog warns it is in ‘sustained decline’ July 13, 2023 There has been a “sustained decline” in Network Rail’s performance over the last year, with delays worsening and a worsening of its infrastructure, the sector’s watchdog has said. Network Rail, which oversees Britain’s rail infrastructure system, “missed” many of its yearly targets and has overseen an increase in delays in all five of its regions, [...]
Letters: Failure at the high street bank September 5, 2022 [Re: Fintech lenders have failed to educate FCA on financial crime, August 23] The knowledge gap between financial regulators and digital banks is no surprise. Traditional financial institutions’ largely ineffective financial crime protections make mutual understandings between regulators and providers a rare occurrence. So, when digital banks are called out for their lack of transparency, [...]
London rents surge to record high of more than £2,500 as experts warn of no let up in sight April 28, 2023 London rents have surged to their highest level on record and experts have warned there is little sign of the capital’s housing market improving any time soon, fresh figures out today reveal. The cost per month of renting a property in London climbed 14 per cent over the last year to £2,501, according to search [...]
Energy security hopes belong in wonderland unless Britain builds again July 17, 2023 The government needs to speed up the approval and construction of energy projects if it has any hopes of supply security and net zero.
How the Internet of Things is taking tech into the future September 13, 2022 IoT’s importance as a technology trend this year and into the future is the role it plays in the successes of other technologies.
Skills shortages? London continues to see fewest apprenticeship starts per 1,000 December 18, 2023 London has continued to see the fewest apprenticeship starts by population of any region in the UK, amid warnings of a “recruitment crisis” facing the city.
NASA calls off plans for second attempt at Artemis 1 rocket launch September 3, 2022 NASA has scrapped plans for a second go at launching the Artemis 1 rocket following a hydrogen tank leak. The US space agency faced obstacles in the way of technical and weather issues on its first attempt to send the rocket to space last week. Now, engineers at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center have advised that [...]
Virgin Atlantic: Supporting Heathrow’s expansion ‘difficult’ unless quality service provided November 21, 2022 Supporting Heathrow’s expansion will be difficult until the west London hub can provide a quality service to airlines and passengers, according to Virgin Atlantic’s boss Shai Weiss. The airport’s expansion plans – which include building a third runway – were backed by former Prime Minister Liz Truss as well as then-transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan. “[The [...]