WPP sales down again despite uptick in new business April 28, 2026 WPP saw its revenue fall by more than six per cent in the first three months of 2026, piling pressure on the advertising giant’s turnaround plan just two months after it was unveiled. The FTSE 250 holding group saw its sales fall by 6.6 per cent to £3bn in the first quarter, while revenue less [...]
Meet the startup backed by Peter Thiel that wants to ‘hold journalists to account’ April 28, 2026 Founder Aron D’Souza spoke to Maria Ward-Brennan about his Peter Thiel-backed startup, which aims to hold journalists accountable by providing real-time ratings and investigations into their reporting practices. There exists a lively debate about the extent to which AI could replace journalists, but before it does that – could it develop a hold over the [...]
KBRA Releases UK RMBS Indices: Q1 2026 April 27, 2026 KBRA releases its UK RMBS Indices: Q1 2026. The indices track key credit performance metrics, including early- (30+ days delinquent (DQ)), mid- (60+ days DQ), late-stage (90+ days DQ) delinquencies, annualised net losses, and prepayment activity, across prime, buy-to-let (BTL), and nonconforming (NC) mortgage collateral. Click here to view the report. Recent Publications UK RMBS [...]
KBRA Releases Research – Extension Risk in UK Seasoned Interest-Only Mortgages April 27, 2026 KBRA releases research that examines the UK past-term interest-only (PTIO) mortgage population, including drivers of post-maturity behaviour and implications for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) cash flow timing. PTIO mortgages are interest-only (IO) loans that have reached maturity without repaying the principal balance. These loans are gaining prominence as legacy pre-global financial crisis (GFC) IO cohorts [...]
vVARDIS Announces Investment from Apollo —Achieves Unicorn Status April 27, 2026 Investment will support global commercial expansion of the Curodont™ technology platform, the first and only non-invasive peptide-containing formulations designed to treat tooth decay drill-free throughout the depth of the lesion
Hitmarker Launches “Hitmarker Pro,” a New End-to-End Hiring Platform Built specifically for the Gaming Industry April 27, 2026 From number 1 job board in Gaming to full hiring infrastructure, Hitmarker introduces a subscription platform to help gaming companies attract, manage, and hire talent in one place.
GMO GlobalSign Introduces TLS Connect, Bringing CLM Automation to Small and Medium Businesses April 27, 2026 As certificate lifespans shrink, TLS Connect gives small and medium businesses a right-sized automated tool to manage TLS certificates
Italy and UK risk driving Formula 1 away with misguided tax raids April 26, 2026 Italy’s latest attempt to claw back tax from Formula 1 drivers and teams is being framed as a crackdown on evasion. In reality, it looks far more like a system struggling to keep up with the modern sport it is trying to regulate. Authorities are reportedly looking to audit teams and drivers retrospectively between 2020 [...]
Spare us Zack Polanski and Zohran Mamdani’s empty progressivism April 25, 2026 Mamdani’s victory in New York proves it’s time to take Zack Polanski and the Green Party seriously. That means recognising how much their policy platform depends on wishful thinking and fantasy economics, says Eliot Wilson Harold Wilson, perhaps Labour’s wiliest Prime Minister, supposedly coined the phrase “a week is a long time in politics”. It [...]
Meta Signs Agreement With AWS to Power Agentic AI on AWS Graviton Chips April 24, 2026 The deal helps power the agentic workloads behind Meta’s AI efforts Key takeaways The deployment starts with tens of millions of Graviton cores, with the potential to expand. Meta is now one of the largest Graviton customers in the world. The deal builds on Meta's long-standing AWS relationship and use of Amazon Bedrock at scale to support its next generation of AI.