Quinbrook Advances UK’s Largest Synchronous Condenser Portfolio with £156M Financing and Final Scottish Project Launch April 29, 2026 Closes landmark £156 million debt financing for its Severn portfolio Achieves commercial operations for fourth and final synchronous condenser in its Scottish portfolio
The Debate: Should companies use secret hiring tests like Duolingo? April 29, 2026 Should companies judge candidates on secret hiring tests like Duolingo, or is it an invasion of privacy? We hear both side's of the debate
West Brom shock at 24-hour verdict while Manchester City case drags on April 29, 2026 West Bromwich Albion have been left shocked at how swiftly the judgement was reached in the EFL Profit and Sustainability case that cost them a points deduction. Last week it was announced that the Championship club would be docked two points for a breach of spending rules. The two-day hearing concluded on Thursday evening, and [...]
‘Slightly unnerving’: Greene King enlists AI to answer pub phones April 29, 2026 Greene King has turned to AI-generated assistants to staff its bars as hospitality firms battle to absorb rising costs, City AM can reveal. The Chinese-owned pub chain, one of the UK’s largest, is using a “virtual assistant” named “Charlie” to answer the phone at a number of sites, including in London. The shift to digital [...]
AI could trigger a PPI level scandal in ‘two weeks’ April 29, 2026 A multi-billion pound scandal like PPI could happen within just “two weeks” as UK finance firms plough ahead with deploying AI despite uncertainty around governance standards, a fresh report has claimed. The UK’s financial services sector faces a “capability gap” when deploying AI, according to a report from regulatory compliance firm Zango. The research pulled [...]
OpenAI-linked shares plummet after it fails to hit growth targets April 28, 2026 Companies with financial ties to the fate of OpenAI sold off sharply on Tuesday after it emerged the ChatGPT maker had fallen short of internal targets for revenue and user growth. Shares in Japanese investment giant Softbank and data centre hyperscalers Coreweave and Oracle plunged by between four and eight per cent reigniting nerves over [...]
Everforth Launches New Era as Rebrand Elevates Technology and Digital Engineering Capabilities at Scale April 28, 2026 Now trading under NYSE ticker EFOR
Q4 Launches AI-Native CRM, Transforming How Investor Relationships Are Managed April 28, 2026 New capabilities tap into Q, the first AI-powered IRO Agent™, to automate logging meetings, generate insights instantly, and enable teams to interact conversationally with their CRM data
Why Mythos could destroy Britain’s banking industry April 28, 2026 AI is compressing the time between discovering a weakness and exploiting it – and that’s a huge threat to the banking industry, says Raj Abrol The banking industry has spent the past year framing artificial intelligence as a productivity tool: faster coding, documentation, customer service and analysis. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, and Project Glasswing, the [...]
Global equity markets are dangerously overconfident April 28, 2026 Global equity markets show a dangerous disconnect by continuing to rally – fueled by an overconfidence in policy backstops – despite the severe and persistent supply-side risks caused by the ongoing energy shock from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, says Helen Thomas There is a growing disconnect between the resilience of global equity [...]