VCs invest record $6.5 billion in crypto as demand keeps growing November 8, 2021 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin started last week at around $62,000 and slowly dropped to retest the $60,000 mark, from which it bounced off to now trade at $66,000
Disney+ to offer discount on subscription service to boost audience November 8, 2021 With its second birthday coming up Disney+ is dropping the price of its subscription service to $1.99 for a month as it seeks to grow its subscriber base. The offer will begin today and will be valid until next week for new and eligible returning subscribers in the United States and some other countries according [...]
Senior Tory MP Geoffrey Cox starts £400k-a-year job at City law firm November 8, 2021 Senior Tory Geoffrey Cox has revealed he has started a £400,000-a-year job at a City law firm as parliament prepares to discuss whether MPs should be able to have lucrative second jobs. Cox, a former attorney general, started his new role at multinational law firm Withers LLP on 1 November and will be working 41 [...]
Ethereum sets new record high as US mayors compete for Bitcoin pay November 8, 2021 It’s been a strong start to the week for the Bitcoin price, which is up around six per cent over the past 24 hours to just below $66k.
Bitcoin ETF may have driven hype and price – but is it for you? November 8, 2021 Bitcoin ETFs are, according to Crypto AM columnist Nigel Green, an important milestone in the mass adoption of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies - but are they for you?
Climate change and the humble auditor – CityAM : CityAM November 8, 2021 The relevance of climate change to world leaders, Royals, activists, Leonardo DiCaprio, chief execs and both former, and current central bank heads, is largely understood, by their presence at Cop26, to be of paramount importance. But what on earth auditors have to do with climate change, is rather more perplexing. One explanation is that audit [...]
Whitehall needs stronger independent regulator, says former top civil servant November 8, 2021 The UK Civil Service is an unaccountable “closed shop” and there needs to be stronger independent regulation of Whitehall, according to a former top mandarin. Lord Nick Macpherson, former permanent secretary at the Treasury, said there needs to be a “dramatic overhaul of the appointments system” to end the era of “personal patronage” in Whitehall. [...]
Labour to pile more pressure on Boris Johnson as Paterson sleaze saga rolls on November 7, 2021 More pressure will be piled onto Boris Johnson tomorrow over the Conservatives’ record on sleaze and corruption as the scandal over Owen Paterson’s lobbying activities rolls on. There will be a debate in parliament that will see Labour given an opportunity to hammer the government over the saga, which saw Paterson resign on Thursday. Labour [...]
West Ham in wonderland and Alisson in blunderland as Hammers stun Liverpool November 7, 2021 Almost two years into his second coming at West Ham United, David Moyes has never had it so good. This afternoon they ended Liverpool’s 25-match unbeaten run with a 3-2 victory that lifted them above the Reds into third place. No wonder Moyes was beaming amid the bubbles at full-time. What’s equally impressive is the [...]
EU could rip up Brexit trade deal if UK suspends NI Protocol, Simon Coveney warns November 7, 2021 Brussels could rip up the post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal if Boris Johnson suspends the Northern Ireland Protocol, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has warned. This would result in an effective no-deal Brexit as trade barriers would be immediately erected between the UK and the EU. Coveney today said the Brexit Withdrawal agreement, which contains the [...]