Reef Origin, Xange.com and NOXXO Founders Launch Origin Assets to Finance Sustainable Real-World Assets June 24, 2026 Founders combine a $40B+ asset pipeline, environmental market infrastructure, and payments technology to deliver tokenized climate impact investments
Starmer defends ‘treacherous’ Reeves and Miliband despite Badenoch jibes June 24, 2026 Sir Keir Starmer jumped to the defence of senior Cabinet ministers Ed Miliband and Rachel Reeves despite brutal attacks by the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch. In one of his last Prime Minister’s Questions, Starmer defiantly stood by the Chancellor, who sat on the front bench alongside him, and praised her for “breaking from austerity” and [...]
City festival with comedy and line dancing arrives in Square Mile June 24, 2026 Line dancing, comedy and a panel discussion entitled “Shit I’m in my 30’s: What’s the plan for retirement?” are some of the events taking place at the Leadenhall Building this summer, as the annual Leadenhall Live festival returns. Running 23 June – 16 July, the festival programmes more than 30 events over the course of [...]
IMU Biosciences Selects Waters to Advance Breakthrough AI Immune Mapping Platform to Transform Early Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Precision Medicine June 24, 2026 IMU’s AI platform unlocks unprecedented immune insights for cancer and other diseases, measuring 100M+ data points from a single blood sample, analyzed in real time.Waters Biosciences’ technologies, including BD FACSDiscover™ and BD Rhapsody™ Instruments, will be used with IMU’s AI analytics in research to deliver deeper, population-level disease insights.Partnership supports IMU’s expansion of its world-leading immune dataset through large-scale studies, establishing a new standard for immune profiling.
Pigment boss: ‘We’re replacing legacy players at the speed of light’ June 24, 2026 Eléonore Crespo, co-founder and chief executive of Pigment, said the company is replacing legacy enterprise software providers “at the speed of light”, as demand for AI-native business planning accelerates across the private sector. The Paris-headquartered platform, which helps companies including Unilever, Siemens, Anthropic and Coca-Cola run financial planning and performance management, is approaching $100m (£75m) [...]
How compliance leaders are guarding the truth in the AI era June 24, 2026 The rapid acceleration of the digital landscape is presenting the financial sector with a dual challenge, where keeping pace has become about managing the sheer volume of data trailing in its wake. Compliance and risk teams are currently navigating a huge shift. Teams are moving away from the traditional view of compliance as a back-office [...]
The Debate: Should the resignation of the Prime Minister trigger a general election? June 24, 2026 As prime ministerial resignations have accelerated, so too have calls for consequent snap elections. We explore the pros and cons.
B&M poaches Asda exec in bid to shake off accounting blunder June 24, 2026 B&M has poached an Asda executive to replace the chief financial officer who quit over a £7m accounting blunder, as the retailer eyes a drastic turnaround. The FTSE 250 firm said on Wednesday that Atheeq Akbar, currently vice president of commercial finance at Asda, will join the firm as chief financial officer next year. B&M’s [...]
New Research Shows Prioritisation of Digital Twins and AI Initiatives to Accelerate Predictive Insights and Infrastructure Resilience June 24, 2026 Nearly two thirds of infrastructure organisations cite disconnected systems as barriers to achieving resilience goals, and look to digital twins to unify fragmented data
Finance’s future needs technology — but it will be defined by people June 24, 2026 For years, the future of finance and accounting has been framed mainly as a story about technology. Artificial intelligence, automation and data platforms are reshaping the profession at pace. They will change how work gets done, who does it and what employers and clients expect. But if that is the whole story, we are missing [...]