‘Calm before the storm’: City warns Healey growth spurt won’t last September 11, 2026 The UK economy’s surprise summer growth spurt is set to be “blown away” by a spike in energy prices and a recent surge in the cost of borrowing, economists have warned the government. Fresh figures revealed on Friday that the economy expanded 0.4 per cent in July, ahead of initial forecasts that predicted flat growth. [...]
BGC Group Announces its First-Ever Fully AI Brokered Institutional Trade in Listed Equity Derivatives September 10, 2026 Fully autonomous transaction between two institutional accounts marks milestone in AI-powered trading
The aristocratic landowner taking record rent from ‘cradle-to-grave’ health empire September 10, 2026 One of London’s biggest landowning families raked in record rent from its Marylebone property empire last year, helped by a surge in demand at its ‘cradle-to-grave’ private healthcare district. Howard de Walden Estates, which owns the Harley Street health district and the residential Marylebone Village, grew its rental income from the estate by 9.3 per [...]
ACCELQ Named ‘AI-Based Engineering Solution of the Year’ in the 9th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards 2026 September 9, 2026 ACCELQ, a pioneer in agentic test automation, announced its win in the 9th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards program. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260909698131/en/ ACCELQ is architected as an agentic AI platform for quality engineering, unifying testing across web, mobile, desktop, API, and packaged applications. ACCELQ’s AI agent ecosystem transforms [...]
Options Announces Expansion of Singapore Operations Amid Continued APAC Growth September 9, 2026 Options Technology (Options), a global leader in market data and trading infrastructure solutions, today announced the expansion of their Singapore operations with a new office on Keppel Road, strategically positioned next to Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD). This expansion comes in response to sustained client growth across the region, rising trading volumes on APAC exchanges, [...]
Callum Anderson MP: the Labour case for financial services September 9, 2026 Aspiration, opportunity and enterprise are values Labour should always proudly champion; when we do we win elections and the country thrives, says Callum Anderson MP Before I had the privilege of becoming Buckingham and Bletchley’s Labour MP, my career was in finance. Much of it was in the City of London, but it was also [...]
Dunelm shares crater as hot weather undermines growth plan September 8, 2026 Shares in Dunelm plummeted after its new boss warned that record summer temperatures had posed an early hurdle to her plans to kick off growth at the furniture and homeware seller. Clo Moriarty, who joined the group from Sainsbury’s in October last year, said progress towards her new strategy has so far been delayed by [...]
REPLY: A Face Only A Mother Could Love by Robert Gaudette Wins the Reply AI Film Festival 2026, the International Competition Exploring the Intersection of Cinema and Artificial Intelligence September 7, 2026 Gabriele Salvatores chaired the international jury that selected the winner from more than 3,000 short films submitted from 76 countries. The awards ceremony took place in Venice on Sunday 6 September, alongside the 83rd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale.
Standard Life takes £473m hit after stock market rally dents hedges September 7, 2026 Standard Life swung to a loss in the first half of the year after the market moved against positions the firm had taken to shield itself against volatility. The FTSE 100 pensions giant posted an overall loss of £179m for the first six months of the year, driven by £473m in paper losses on financial [...]
Britain ‘taxing itself to death,’ Burnham warned September 6, 2026 One of the US’ leading economists has warned Andy Burnham that Britain is “taxing itself to death” in a major intervention ahead of the October Budget. Arthur Laffer, a former economic adviser to three presidents, has warned that the UK is in a “death spiral” ahead of his visit to the country. He wrote in [...]