The rapid rise of prediction markets, enabling bets on outcomes across a wide range of events, raises questions over whether ...
This time and value leakage is not inevitable. It is the outcome of a global system that has, in the name of de-risking, in ...
The COP29 and COP30 presidencies presented the “Baku to Belém Roadmap”, outlining key actions governments and financial ...
One quirk of the UK market that has long generated criticism is the stamp duty charged on the purchase of shares in UK ...
Regulators have responded with new frameworks. In the UK, the Payment Systems Regulator (now merged with the FCA) introduced ...
UK regulators have begun criminal proceedings against a former Jefferies banker, who is accused of leaking inside information ...
Banks face more whistleblowing challenges after the Chancellor confirmed a new US-style scheme to pay informants who help expose tax dodging.  Informants could receive between 15 and 30 per cent of ...
HSBC and OakNorth Bank have warned about the danger of “AI agents on the loose controlling everything”, urging the need for ...
The cohort launch could see UK stablecoin issuance from as early as April, said Colin Payne, the FCA’s head of innovation, ...
June’s draft regulation for the digital euro would give legal backing to this demand. Phonemakers will be required to give ...
European lenders with exposure to the US should expand their liquidity and capital buffers in case of a squeeze on the dollar ...
The Office for Budget Responsibility — in a document that leaked before the Budget — said that Reeves is on track to increase ...