White Oak Global Advisors Expands Commitment to UK SME Financing with New Senior-Secured Private Credit Strategy June 23, 2026 White Oak UK (“WOUK”), an affiliate of White Oak Global Advisors (“White Oak”), today announced its plans to launch a new private credit strategy designed to support UK reindustrialisation by providing financing for manufacturing modernisation, industrial capacity, capital equipment, infrastructure and supply chain resilience. The strategy builds on WOUK’s 40-year track record financing SMEs and [...]
‘Act now’: AI models capable of attacks on governments months away, Five Eyes warn June 23, 2026 Powerful AI models capable of devastating cyber attacks on both governments and businesses are just months away, intelligence agencies for the coveted Five Eyes has warned in a rare joint statement. The cyber security agencies from Australia, the US, UK, New Zealand and Canada, urged leaders to “act now” in a rare public intervention after [...]
On this day: Brits vote in referendum that changes everything June 23, 2026 The Brexit referendum was 10 years ago today. A decade on, very little has been resolved, says Eliot Wilson There have only ever been three UK-wide referendums. Appealing directly to the electorate on a single issue through a plebiscite fits awkwardly with parliamentary government, as Enoch Powell told the House of Commons in 1972: “The [...]
Thames Water is Burnham’s first big test: will he do what’s right or what’s popular? June 23, 2026 Thames Water will run out of money in a matter of months, but the government rejected a plan to save it. Now, Burnham’s talk of renationalisation is already scaring off investors and reducing the tax revenues available to fun public services, says Natascha Engel Now that Keir Starmer has announced his departure, the question is [...]
Here’s what a government led by Andy Burnham will look like June 23, 2026 The political economy of an Andy Burnham government is clear, it will be radically interventionist: nationalising failing utilities like Thames Water, investing in the green transition – and seeing the Iran War as a spur to the ultimate energy security of renewables plus nuclear; building a progressive economy of opportunity and prosperity for all, says [...]
Burnham might lift Labour’s mood but he won’t save the country June 23, 2026 It was a little under two years ago that Keir Starmer stood outside 10 Downing Street and declared that his new government would “end the era of noisy performance [and] tread a little more lightly on your lives.” It was a bold ambition and, after a shambolic end to Tory rule, a welcome one. Was [...]
Dallas, Boston, New York New Jersey: Inside England’s Fifa World Cup stadiums June 22, 2026 With England travelling around the United States for their Fifa World Cup Group L matches, Matt Hardy asks experts about what makes them so special. England’s opening victory at this year’s Fifa World Cup came in an incredible indoor stadium in Texas. The AT&T Stadium, known for the next six weeks as the Dallas Stadium, [...]
Manchester United secure site for new stadium after switching location June 22, 2026 Manchester United have snapped up a 25-acre plot of land for their proposed 100,000-seater stadium after deciding to change the location of the project. United announced they had acquired a site 350m to the north west of their current ground from industrial land owner Indurent, which they say represents “the majority of the land required” [...]
Interactive Brokers Expands AI Integration Capabilities – Adding ChatGPT and Grok to Its Growing Suite of Agentic Trading Tools June 22, 2026 Additional Asset Classes Available Including Options and Futures
Cloudflare Collaborates With Leading Browsers to Develop a Privacy-First Protocol For the Global Internet June 22, 2026 New Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) technology, developed alongside Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify, pioneers a privacy architecture to secure interactions across the global Internet