Crypto plummets as Binance pauses Bitcoin withdrawals and Celsius stops redemptions June 13, 2022 Major cryptocurrencies plunged on Monday after Binance halted Bitcoin withdrawals and Celsius suspended all redemptions. Bitcoin dropped over 18% while ether fell more than 20% on Monday afternoon after Binance , the world’s largest crypto exchange, suspended Bitcoin withdrawals. The suspension came after crypto lender Celsius announced it would halt withdrawals, swaps, and transfers between [...]
Klarna boss questions Apple competitive practices after buy-now pay-later move June 12, 2022 The boss of fintech giant Klarna has questioned the competitive practices of Apple after the tech behemoth announced it would push into the buy-now pay-later space this week.
Another one: Zopa Bank enters buy-now pay-later space June 8, 2022 Digital bank Zopa has entered the highly competitive buy-now pay-later (BNPL) space, following suit of tech giant Apple and on the toes of the likes of Klarna.
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How To Ask For Feedback From A Job Interview June 7, 2022 There’s no point in sugar coating it: Interviewing for a new job is exhausting. If you’re applying for multiple roles at the same time chances are you’ll experience interview fatigue at some point during the process. At mid-to-senior levels any interview requires extensive research and preparation, not to mention CV rewrites and presentation preparation. If [...]
Trading app Robinhood settles class action lawsuit over 2020 outages May 28, 2022 Stock market trading app Robinhood has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit, over claims outages on its app cased investors to lose money during a period of pandemic-related stock market volatility. The lawsuit comes after retail investors flocked to the app in the midst of the pandemic, in their efforts to battle hedge [...]
FCA to be granted powers to protect cash access as banks slash branches May 19, 2022 The UK’s top financial watchdog will be granted fresh powers to ensure that banks provide access to cash as Britain’s high street lenders move to slash branch numbers across the country.
TUC urges action on gender pensions gap May 19, 2022 Unions are stepping up calls to tackle the “huge problem” of the gender pension gap after a study suggested that in many industries women have workplace pensions worth less than a fifth of male colleagues. The TUC dubbed Thursday ‘gender pensions gap day’, when it estimated that women pensioners start getting paid because retired women [...]
Age hits equally, but the gender pension gap doesn’t May 19, 2022 According to Amazon’s rankings, the best selling products for sixty-plus Brits are elevated toilet seats, pill organisers and pain relief creams. As elderly age affects the population regardless of gender, Amazon’s pensioners’ insights don’t take into account whether the buyer is a man or a woman – raised toilet seats are so far yet to [...]
Looking after number one: Your guide to topping up the pension May 19, 2022 Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well, raps London’s M.I.A. But what if you are a sensible girl, live slow, and actually die old? The millennial mindset may be one hurdle to long-term investing. But pensions are there for a reason: they are a “surprising, sneaky, clever little vehicle for investment”, as Tamara [...]