Last minute Christmas gifts: Now you can easily give bitcoin thanks to two British entrepreneurs December 21, 2017 Who isn’t running around looking for last minute stocking fillers at this time of year? That was the situation one entrepreneurial couple found themselves in when they decided upon bitcoin as the perfect present. But one problem Laurence Kemball-Cook and Louise Doherty stumbled upon was how difficult it is to buy for someone not entrenched [...]
Housebuilder share prices: McCarthy & Stone share price falls along with Berkeley Group, Persimmon, Barratt and others on leasehold crackdown December 21, 2017 Housebuilders were hit hard this morning after the government revealed new rules cracking down on leasehold practices described by communities secretary Sajid Javid as “feudal”. Shares in FTSE 250-listed McCarty & Stone, which specialises in retirement homes, fell 10.3 per cent to 152.3p on the news. Meanwhile, on the FTSE 100, Berkeley Group fell 1.5 [...]
Carillion share price: Behind the scenes of the construction giant’s annus horribilis December 21, 2017 Troubled construction giant Carillion hit the headlines again yesterday after it announced its interim chief executive Keith Cochrane will be replaced almost three months earlier than planned. When Andrew Davies, who was set to take over on 2 April 2018, starts on 22 January, he will become the company’s third chief executive in six months. [...]
Data is only half the GDPR story, watch your software like a hawk December 21, 2017 Apprehension around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been focused on the best practice for handling data, but companies cannot afford to overlook how personal data is processed by software applications. As the most comprehensive data privacy standard to date, its introduction in May 2018 will present significant challenges for every organisation processing EU [...]
AI and experiments – let’s make 2018 Britain’s year of innovation December 21, 2017 It has been a rather frustrating year for those interested in hearing from the government on a long-term vision for the British economy. With most of the year dominated by Brexit negotiations – plus a mid-year pause for a surprise election – it took 11 months for a roadmap for UK growth to be set [...]
There’s more to GDPR than just fines December 21, 2017 From Yahoo’s admission that all three billion of its users’ accounts had been compromised, to the massive hack that exposed the data of 57m Uber customers and drivers, a number of high profile data breaches have hit the headlines in 2017. And lest we forget, the massive fallout from consumer credit reporting agency Equifax is [...]
DEBATE: Will Donald Trump’s overhaul of the US tax code be beneficial to the American economy? December 21, 2017 Will Trump’s overhaul of the US tax code be beneficial to the American economy? David Hawkins, managing director of Cliveden Family Office and former board member of Republicans Overseas, says YES. The Trump administration’s competitiveness agenda implements the greatest reform to personal, small business and corporate taxation in the US since 1986. Not since Ronald [...]
Leasehold ban: Fresh government plans crack down on “feudal” leasehold practices December 21, 2017 Communities secretary Sajid Javid will today announce new plans to cut out unfair and abusive practices within the leasehold system, including a ban on leaseholds for almost all new build houses. Changes will also be made so that ground rents on new long leases for both houses and flats are set to zero and to [...]
Many Brits are concerned about immigration – but that’s no reason to pull up the drawbridge December 21, 2017 Immigration has long been at the forefront of the public’s political concerns, with survey data and focus groups consistently reflecting a discomfort with the number of people arriving in the UK. Such sentiments were behind a Conservative pledge to cut net immigration to under 100,000 per annum (originally made in the party’s 2010 election manifesto), [...]
Bristol City 2, Manchester United 1: Jose Mourinho brands giant-killers “lucky” as holders exit Carabao Cup December 20, 2017 Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho branded Bristol City “lucky” after the Championship high-flyers stunned the tournament holders to reach the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup. An injury-time strike from midfielder Korey Smith ensured City reached the last four of the League Cup for the first time since the 1988-89 campaign, and they will now face [...]