Security minister vows stricter cyber regime after JLR fallout November 24, 2025 Security minister Dan Jarvis has pledged a more hard-edged cyber regime for UK businesses after a series of high-profile attacks on firms including Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Marks & Spencer exposed weaknesses in the country’s digital defences. Speaking at the Parliament & Cyber Conference at Westminster on Monday, Jarvis said cyber incidents had moved [...]
Fund managers remain bullish amid private credit fears November 24, 2025 Fund managers are bullish heading into the next financial year, despite growing fears over the private credit market and the burst of the AI bubble. According to the latest investor trends survey from wealth manager Quilter, on a scale of one to 10, the average fund manager’s risk appetite increased from 5.4 to 5.9 in [...]
Access Advance Announces Major Growth in Its HEVC and VVC Patent Pools November 24, 2025 Access Advance LLC today announced significant expansions of both its HEVC Advance and VVC Advance Patent Pools during the second and third quarters of 2025, underscoring continued industry confidence in the company’s balanced and transparent approach to video codec licensing. This growth follows the successful January 2025 launch of Access Advance’s Video Distribution Patent (“VDP”) [...]
LivaNova’s VNS Therapy for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Procedures Receives Increased Provider Reimbursement from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services November 24, 2025 – New patient implants assigned to New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification 1580 – End-of-service procedures elevated to Level 5 APC – Effective Jan. 1, 2026, will improve economics for hospitals performing Medicare procedures and significantly reduces a known barrier to procedure penetration
Britain’s SMEs are fed up with shouldering tax burden November 24, 2025 The Budget presents tough choices for the Chancellor, but SMEs shouldn’t have to continue shouldering the burden, writes John Phillipou.
Claudia Winkleman’s bumper pay day revealed after The Traitors success November 24, 2025 Claudia Winkleman’s huge pay day thanks to the success of The Traitors and Strictly Come Dancing has been revealed. The TV presenter earned around £2m in the year ending April 2025, according to accounts for her firm, Little Owl Productions, which have just been filed with Companies House. Claudia Winkleman paid £575,000 in corporation tax [...]
Frasers Group Selects Navan to Elevate Global Travel and Expense Management November 24, 2025 Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the all-in-one travel, payments, and expense management platform, today announced it has been selected by Frasers Group, the retailer behind Sports Direct, FLANNELS, and FRASERS, as the company’s global partner for travel and expense management. In recent years, Frasers Group has gone from strength-to-strength, executing on its Elevation Strategy to rethink retail [...]
Everything we know about Rachel Reeves’ Budget – from mansions to milkshakes November 24, 2025 In the run-up to the mother of all Autumn Budgets to be delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves this week, tax rumours have run wild, infecting the minds of businesses and working Brits while adding to the sense of peril that a botched fiscal event could bring. Investors are running scared. Voters fear looming betrayal. Gamblers [...]
City of London policy chairman: Bank levy should be wound down November 24, 2025 Financial and professional services underpin the country’s global competitiveness. The Budget should support banks, writes Chris Hayward.
Not classy: lawfare will weaken the British economy November 22, 2025 The recent explosion of class action lawsuits and third-party litigation funding in Britain is argued to be damaging the UK economy and its reputation for legal stability, often primarily enriching funders rather than compensating victims, says James Price American cinema has long loved the class action lawsuit. Hundreds, maybe thousands of little guys ganging up [...]