The Investor Forum pushes Aviva to shake-up strategy November 19, 2019 A group of institutional investors has pushed insurer Aviva to overhaul its strategy ahead of an investor meeting tomorrow. The Investor Forum, whose members manage assets worth about £21 trillion, has urged Aviva to produce a credible long-term plan to increase its value, Sky News reported. The Forum wrote to Aviva over the last few [...]
Brexit Party being investigated by ICO over data disclosure November 19, 2019 The Brexit Party is being investigated over concerns it has not properly disclosed people’s personal data. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating Nigel Farage’s party, after complaints it had not responded to questions about personal data collection. Read more: Police ‘assessing’ allegations that Brexit Party candidates were offered peerages Data protection law mandates that [...]
Google Stadia responds to complaints over lag on gaming platform November 19, 2019 Google’s Stadia has responded to complaints that lag is affecting services on the new cloud-based game streaming platform. Early adopters have complained about latency – delays between when they press a button and that action being carried out in-game – on the new service. Read more: Google announces Stadia game streaming platform Google vice president [...]
General Election 2019: Justice secretary Robert Buckland hints at shift on fox hunting November 19, 2019 Justice secretary Robert Buckland has hinted that fox hunting may be off the agenda this election campaign. Speaking ahead of the Conservatives’ manifesto launch, expected this weekend, the frontbencher told Sky News he thought it was unlikely Boris Johnson would revive the topic. Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May pledged to hold a free vote to potentially [...]
India and the ESG challenge November 19, 2019 The year 2019 is setting records and not the kind our planet would have liked. Not only will 2019 be among the hottest years recorded, but July was the hottest month in the 140 years that temperature records have been kept. Climate change is for real, and in India, our challenge is grave. Current and [...]
Corporate sponsors review links to Duke of York’s Pitch@Palace scheme after disastrous interview November 18, 2019 FIRMS are under scrutiny over their support for Prince Andrew’s Pitch@Palace initiative, as the fallout from the Duke of York’s weekend interview regarding his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continues. Founding partner of the entrepreneurs’ mentoring scheme KPMG is said to have decided not to renew its sponsorship, which expired at the end of last month. It [...]
Guy Kinnings interview: European Tour deputy CEO on growing the Ryder Cup, criticism from Rory McIlroy and the prospects of a single global tour November 18, 2019 It has been an eventful first year in the job for Guy Kinnings, golf’s poacher-turned-gamekeeper. The former agent to Colin Montgomerie and head of the sport at industry behemoth IMG joined the European Tour 14 months ago with a wide-ranging brief that includes maximising prize asset the Ryder Cup, overseeing all commercial activity and acting [...]
TSB IT meltdown blamed on data centre test failure November 18, 2019 The IT meltdown that left nearly 2m TSB customers without access to online banking is set to be partly blamed on the company’s failure to test one of its new data centres. A long-awaited inquiry by City law firm Slaughter and May has concluded that the decision to test only one of the new data [...]
Airbus announces mammoth Middle Eastern jet orders worth more than $30bn November 18, 2019 Airbus has announced orders for more than 170 planes this morning, in a mammoth set of deals valued at more than $30bn at list prices. Air Arabia, a low-cost Emirati carrier has ordered 120 narrow-body planes including the A320neo and A321 XLR models, while Dubai government airline Emirates placed an order for 50 of the [...]
Sajid Javid: My pitch to the businesses of Britain November 18, 2019 Britain’s 6m businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. They have driven employment to record highs, with wages outstripping inflation. And they have made our country a hotbed of furious innovation in products and services. We would all like to see higher economic growth — after a decade of recovery from the last Labour government [...]