The Notebook: Kokou Agbo-Bloua on fashionomics, inflation musings and our broken food system July 25, 2023 Where interesting people say interesting things. Today it’s Kokou Agbo-Bloua, global head of economics, cross-asset & quant research and UK head of research at Societe Generale Fashionomics: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Since the dawn of time, clothing has been an important part of our human experience. We lost our fur at least [...]
Papa wasn’t a Rolling Stone? You can still be an investor in their top songs July 25, 2023 A Rolling Stone song could soon be a better investment than property, as top hits quickly become an asset class of their own luring in investors, writes Elena Siniscalco
Water bosses’ pay should be decided based on how much sewage they clean up July 25, 2023 Chief executives follow the money and until we link water bosses's pay with the amount of sewage being cleaned up from our rivers, we'll be stuck with the faeces, writes Chris Hirst.
Don’t fight the gentrification of areas like Brixton, it’s time to give in to the local Gail’s July 25, 2023 Nimbys exist in central London as well, and they're trying to stop the inevitable gentrification of Brixton, writes Ben Cope.
Nigel Farage receives apology from BBC over Coutts account closure reporting July 24, 2023 The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage for suggesting he lacked the funds needed to hold an account at Coutts after the private bank cut ties with the former Ukip leader. The BBC’s business editor Simon Jack made the apology after a story published by the corporation suggested Mr Farage had his account shut for [...]
Credit Suisse hit with record £87m fine by UK bank regulator for Archegos failings July 24, 2023 Credit Suisse has been hit with a record £87m fine by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) for its failures relating to the collapsed hedge fund Archegos Capital. The PRA criticised Credit Suisse’s “significant failures in risk management and governance” between the start of 2020 and the end of March 2021. “This is the PRA’s highest [...]
FTSE 100 close: Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds retrace losses as Ocado soars July 24, 2023 London’s FTSE 100 retraced early losses today to close in the black, driven higher by online supermarket Ocado surging after it settled a dispute over its warehouse technology. The capital’s premier index climbed 0.19 per cent to 7,678.60 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the [...]
IBM Security Report: UK businesses face £3.4m data breach costs but AI could help July 24, 2023 UK organisations face an average cost of £3.4m for data breach incidents but AI could reduce these costs by £1.6m on average, a report by IBM Security has revealed. Their annual Cost of a Data Breach Report showed a decrease in the total average cost of a data breach in the UK from £3.8m in [...]
FTSE 100 firms shutting out DIY investors with corporate mumbo-jumbo, investment platform warns July 24, 2023 Top UK bosses are shutting out amateur investors from the market by using corporate waffle and overly technical language in their shareholder communication, a top investment platform has warned.
Stablecoin market cap drops to near two-year low as Spot Bitcoin ETF proposals move forward July 24, 2023 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of the flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) moved mostly sideways throughout the past week.
