Can Super League use Las Vegas and NRL to turbocharge English rugby league? February 25, 2025 The Super League is venturing to Las Vegas to piggyback on the NRL. But can it help to turbocharge rugby league in England? “It’s fantastic, I’ve watched a couple of the games. They’re proper hard players, and maybe they deserve that little bit more publicity. They’re spreading the word.” Those were the thoughts of Manchester [...]
Unite’s sales boom as student housing demand shows no sign of slowing February 25, 2025 Unite Students has reported double-digit growth as demand for student housing continues to far outpace supply. The FTSE 100 firm, which owns and manages university housing, reported earnings of £213.8m for 2024 – up 16 per cent year on year. Rents grew by 8.2 per cent, the company said, with occupancy at 97.5 per cent. [...]
HSBC Innovation Banking bets £30m on fintech Clearscore February 25, 2025 HSBC Innovation Banking has backed global fintech Clearscore lending £30m in debt financing. After first partnering in 2017, the fintech said the continued support of the bank will help drive further business growth across domestic and international markets. Clearscore credited the lender for its “vital role in its global expansion” with the financial marketplace now [...]
AI will help us all live longer – that’s a business problem February 25, 2025 AI is solving medical problems at unthinkable speeds, but it's not just the pharma industry that should prepare, writes Paul Armstrong.
Britain’s hospitality leaders face a crisis of confidence as tax rises bite February 25, 2025 Optimism in Britain’s hospitality sector has continued to slip, with only a third of leaders confident about the next year of trading as cost pressures mount. It’s the fifth month in a row that the confidence of Britain’s hospitality leaders has fallen, according to CGA by NIQ’s latest Business Confidence Survey. Morale is now at [...]
The Ritz-Carlton puts the ‘grand’ in Grand Cayman February 24, 2025 People either come here to make money or they’re running away from something,” Dan told me in Grand Cayman’s Backroom cigar and cocktail bar. The somewhat jaded 40-something American finance bro whose surfer-esque brown hair could easily be slicked back, Patrick Bateman style, was facing a dilemma. He’d reached the eight year point at which [...]
Man Utd job losses could hit 450 as Ratcliffe swings axe again February 24, 2025 Manchester United have confirmed plans to make up to another 200 redundancies in a bid to arrest five years of continuous losses at the 20-time English champions. It comes just months after Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos slashed 250 jobs at Old Trafford and could take the total number of redundancies to 450 since he [...]
Retail job vacancies have almost halved in a year February 24, 2025 The number of advertised jobs in retail has almost halved in the last year as companies continue to buckle down on costs. Job vacancies have fallen 42.25 per cent in the last year, the most significant drop in any UK sector, according to Adzuna’s latest jobs report. There has been a contraction in retail for [...]
Daniel Dubois next fight: Brit mulls Usyk revenge mission and Joshua rematch February 24, 2025 Daniel Dubois is weighing up a rematch with either Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua after being forced to pull out of his £7m world title defence against Joseph Parker. IBF heavyweight champion Dubois was ruled out of the scheduled fight with Parker in Riyadh on Saturday at short notice after falling ill and his stand-in [...]
A seismic election won’t deliver the change Germany needs February 24, 2025 Friedrich Merz has emerged victorious in a general election which saw dramatic changes in German politics – but given that his party is responsible for many of the country’s problems, a radical about turn looks unlikely, says Rainer Zitelmann Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) emerged victorious in Germany’s general election, securing 28.6 per [...]