Over 16,000 customers seeking compensation for British Airways data breach January 13, 2021 More than 16,000 people are seeking compensation from British Airways (BA) over a data breach in 2018, lawyers for the victims said today. In September 2018, the UK’s flag carrier revealed that the personal details of 420,000 customers – including names, debit and credit card numbers, addresses and email addresses – had been stolen. Now [...]
We need more crypto companies to IPO to increase digital asset scrutiny and adoption January 6, 2021 As a publicly listed digital asset trading business, the recent announcement of Coinbase’s IPO has naturally put a spotlight on us at Voyager Digital and we welcome their move as it will improve trust, transparency and above all, adoption of digital assets. It is imperative that the crypto asset space ups its game as there’s [...]
Sustainability investing: what does the future look like? January 5, 2021 ‘Future of Sustainability in Investment Management: From Ideas to Reality’ is a newly published CFA Institute report. The 60-page publication was informed by the views of more than 7,000 industry participants, including 3,500+ retail investors, 920+ asset owners and 3,050+ investment practitioners. Research included virtual roundtables across 31 markets. Here we summarise its findings. The [...]
Network International taps Mastercard executive as new boss January 5, 2021 Payments processor Network International has hired a top Mastercard executive as its new chief executive following the departure of Simon Haslam. Nandan Mer, who currently serves as Mastercard’s strategy head for international markets, will take up the role on 1 February. It comes after Haslam announced plans to retire at the end of the month [...]
Exclusive – Bank of America’s diversity chief urges City firms to ‘do more’ in 2021 January 1, 2021 The City of London and the government recently launched a joint taskforce in order to tackle the lack of class diversity in the UK’s financial services sector as it is often argued the Square Mile needs to do better at diversity and inclusion. So will there be a step change in 2021? City A.M. sat [...]
Sportspeople have never had so much power. In 2021 they will continue to change the way they are defined December 29, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has been the dominant theme of 2020 for the entire global population and its impact on the world of sport – its events, competitions, clubs and athletes – has been equally transformative. But, as Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote states, out of adversity comes opportunity. And as we look ahead to the sporting [...]
Chris Tremlett: Why Zak Crawley’s double century was my cricket highlight of 2020 December 22, 2020 How a player starts their international career can be defining, so my cricket highlight of 2020 was a young man laying down a marker. Zak Crawley’s double century for England in the third Test against the West Indies during the summer was really impressive. A performance like that should fill the 22-year-old Kent batsman with [...]
Xbox Series X: A powerhouse machine with bags of potential December 18, 2020 There was a time when the launch of a new games console represented a gigantic leap forward – when gamers could expect to see and play titles in ways they hadn’t even conceived. The jump from Nintendo’s SNES to the N64, for instance, ushered in the era of 3D gaming, changing the course of the [...]
Pornhub removes 80% of its videos following Mastercard rebuttal December 16, 2020 Mastercard has said it will cut ties and block the use of its cards on Pornhub after they found that the website allowed for unlawful content to be uploaded onto the site. More than 10m (80 per cent) videos have been removed from the website, following an investigation from the New York Times which claimed [...]
Cold turkey: Ministers face pressure to scrap ‘rash’ Christmas relaxation of rules December 15, 2020 The government is facing mounting pressure to rethink its decision to relax coronavirus restrictions for five days over Christmas over fears it will lead to a third national lockdown. In their first joint editorial for more than 100 years, the British Medical Journal and Health Service Journal today said the government should U-turn on its [...]