Why the blockchain community needs ethics March 25, 2022 Crypto AM's Dr Jane Thomason examines why the blockchain community needs to ensure it has ethics in its DNA.
Fetch.ai boosted by MEXC Global $150m fund with Huobi and Bybit March 22, 2022 Cryptocurrency trading platform MEXC Global is to create an investment fund of $150 million, together with Huobi Global and Bybit, to support the growth of Fetch.ai.
Olympics investor UK Sport hit by almost a quarter of a million cyber attacks in past year March 21, 2022 UK Sport, the government agency responsible for investing in Olympic and Paralympic sport in the United Kingdom, has been hit by almost a quarter of a million cyber attacks during the past year, according to official figures.
A renewed focus on defence spending could turbocharge Britain’s scientific innovation March 16, 2022 Germany, along with most of the rest of the EU, has finally woken up to the folly of relying on other countries – mainly the US but also the UK – to defend them. At the end of last month, Chancellor Olaf Schulz announced that €100bn will be put into a new defence procurement fund. [...]
Branch banking to be dead and gone in Europe by 2025 March 10, 2022 Banking through physical branches could phase out by 2025, a new survey has revealed, as the pandemic-era push to online holds its momentum. Nearly 70 per cent of European banks, surveyed by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Temenos, said that brick and mortar banks will be dead and gone in just three years. It [...]
AUDT token makes its debut on Bittrex Global March 8, 2022 Auditchain Labs AG announced that Bittrex Global will add support for the AUDT - USDT pair tomorrow (March 9) from 4pm.
Exclusive: Tax probe yields hit staggering £30bn as HMRC fights to recoup lost Covid revenues March 5, 2022 The total revenue HMRC generated from tax investigations and other compliance activity has risen to £30.8bn in 2021, up from £28bn in 2020 as it looks to pursue tax lost to evasion or avoidance during the pandemic, lawyers have told City A.M. this morning. HMRC had to suspend some tax investigations work for part of [...]
Legal View: Why the law is an underappreciated asset class March 3, 2022 Economists have recently acknowledged the existence and the value of natural assets in ways which open new avenues of thought. Guy Beringer, former chair of UK Export Finance and currently the director of LegalUK, argues that the same process of recognition and revelation should apply to another class of asset which impacts the quality of [...]
Why the blockchain community needs ethics March 2, 2022 Crypto AM's Dr Jane Thomason explores the ethics of blockchain, and how the industry must get it right.
Security fears as HMRC loses nearly 1,500 electronic devices over past five years February 23, 2022 HMRC has reported 1,491 electronic devices lost or stolen over the past five years, according to official figures. The data, retrieved via the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) and analysed by the Parliament Street think tank, observed the number of mobile phones, laptops and tablets lost or stolen over the past five years, each year from [...]