Fear is being weaponised against the good intentions of cryptocurrency August 29, 2022 Dr Chris Kacher explores how sowing the seeds of fear, uncertainty and doubt in different fields have a knock-on effect for cryptocurrency.
US senator is right… Bitcoin will be used as standard in retirement planning August 29, 2022 Crypto AM columnist Nigel Green defines the influences encouraging people to increase their exposure to cryptocurrency for retirement.
EXCLUSIVE: UK semiconductor industry in urgent need of a strategy, say Nexperia, Imagination, IQE and Paragraf August 26, 2022 The UK is in urgent need of a strategy to bolster its semiconductor industry, bosses of some of the country’s biggest chip companies have told City A.M. Maintaining a steady supply of semiconductors will be critical to the electric vehicle transition and roll out of 5G infrastructure. The long-awaited strategy is expected to be published [...]
M&S faces boycott over gender changing room row August 26, 2022 Calls have been made to boycott M&S after the retail giant said customers could decide which changing room they wanted to use.
Luke Chadwick interview: Ex-Manchester United star out to change children’s coaching August 25, 2022 When Luke Chadwick joined Manchester United as a shy teenager it was not the culture of excellence so much as the welcoming environment that Sir Alex Ferguson had cultivated which made the biggest impression. United’s legendary manager favoured the personal touch, as Chadwick found before a trial match. “Sir Alex came into the dressing room [...]
Ed Warner: Does society have a responsibility to retiring athletes? August 25, 2022 We may be just days away from seeing the last of Serena Williams in competitive tennis. The US Open, which starts next week, is marked out as the retirement party for the greatest tennis star of the modern era. At 40 years old, she’s late to step away from elite sport and does so with [...]
Hot in the city: why investors should care about soaring temperatures August 23, 2022 As heatwaves become more frequent, city centre buildings will need to adapt. For investors in global cities, keeping a close eye on weather data will become vital. As investors in global cities, we have been using planetary-scale environmental geospatial data since 2019. We have been continuously investigating and mining datasets more commonly found in academic [...]
Decoding football’s transfer market: How can clubs reach objective player valuations? August 23, 2022 As football’s transfer window enters its final few days, one question certain to be at the centre of discussion is: how do you arrive at a fair and accurate valuation for a player? Is Everton’s young attacker Anthony Gordon, for example, worth the £60m that Chelsea are said to be willing to spend on him? [...]
Klarna says BNPL can offer ‘better value’ for essentials amidst cost of living crunch August 23, 2022 Klarna has doubled down on the use of buy-now pay-later for essentials like groceries after debt charities and the regulator warned over the promotion of the products amidst a cost of living crunch this year.
Zoom cuts earnings forecasts for the year in the march back to the office August 23, 2022 Zoom has cut its earnings forecasts for this year, having recorded its lowest quarterly revenue growth yet. The pandemic communications darling had revenue rise eight per cent to a little over $1bn (£851m) in the second quarter, Zoom’s “fifth straight quarter with revenue of over one billion dollars”, chief financial officer Kelly Steckelberg said in a [...]