Cybersecurity firm Pentera raises £110m as it gears up for US float January 11, 2022 Israeli cybersecurity firm Pentera has raised $150m (£110m) in its latest funding round, taking the company's value to $1bn (£736m), as it eyes up flotation.
How natural language processing helps investors January 11, 2022 Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) – for several years, we’ve heard how these technologies will transform investment management. Firms have invested untold capital in research in hopes of converting these trends into added revenue. Yet for many of us, these technologies and what they can bring to the investment [...]
Genflow gears up for London float with Europe acting as ’empty field’ for age reversal firms January 10, 2022 Age reversal firm Genflow gears up to announce its market debut, making it the first of its kind to float in London. The British company is backed by the likes of billionaire investor Jim Mellon and has raised £3.7m, with a market cap of just over £23m. Funds will go towards developing a product designed [...]
Online meal maker Gousto raises $150m fresh funding January 7, 2022 Online meal company Gousto has raised a fresh funding led by the Japanese technology investment giant SoftBank.
If the first few days of 2022 are anything to go by, Bitcoin’s in for an interesting year January 7, 2022 Jason Deane says we can be sure that we’re in for a fascinating twelve months in cryptocurrency.
Exclusive: penalties for global financial institutions halve in 2021 January 7, 2022 The value of penalties issued to global financial institutions fell by 49 per cent in 2021, as pandemic restrictions thwarted investigations.
Cryptocurrency drop echoes wider sentiment across stock markets January 6, 2022 Bitcoin fell below $43,000 in the early hours of this morning, testing lows not seen since the start of December.
Opinion-in-brief: Time to move to online learning to upskill our workforce January 6, 2022 January is considered one of the best months for job hunting. But with half of the UK workforce requiring upskilling by 2025, there is a need for accessible skills training at a huge scale. The traditional model of in-person learning is defined by long and costly courses with low completion rates. We need something different, [...]
The three potential metaversal consequences of QEndless January 5, 2022 Dr Chris Kacher examines how the world is on a knife edge, but could a metaversal snowflake create an avalanche to tip the scales?
Slow start for Bitcoin, but cryptocurrency is outpacing stocks and shares January 5, 2022 Bitcoin is up one per cent to just below $47k, while second-largest cryptocurrency Ethereum is up 1.5 per cent to around $3,800.