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Global Banking & Finance Awards® 2021- Next 100 Global Awards

Global Banking & Finance Awards® 2021- Next 100 Global Awards

The Next 100 Global Companies to watch highlights some of the most exciting, innovative, and promising businesses from around the worl..

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Global Banking & Finance Awards® 2021

Global Banking & Finance Awards® 2021

Global Banking & Finance Review® announces the list of winners for its 11th annual Global Banking & Finance Awards® program 2021 Global Bankin..

Explainer-Western sanctions on banks only scratch surface of Fortress Russia

Explainer-Western sanctions on banks only scratch surface of Fortress Russia

By Tommy Wilkes and John McCrank LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States, the European Union and Britain announced new san..

Explainer-How Western sanctions will target Russia

Explainer-How Western sanctions will target Russia

By Karin Strohecker (Reuters) -The United States and its allies are coordinating new sanctions on Russia after Moscow recognised two r..

Markets pricing some geopolitics, but risk premia can grow further -Goldman

Markets pricing some geopolitics, but risk premia can grow further -Goldman

By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) -Global markets are already pricing chunky geopolitical risks, but there is scope for risk premia to r..

Oil climbs on growing fears of conflict over Ukraine

Oil climbs on growing fears of conflict over Ukraine

By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices jumped more than $2 to a fresh seven-year high on Tuesday after Moscow ordered t..

Stocks slide, oil jumps as Russia orders troops to Ukraine regions

Stocks slide, oil jumps as Russia orders troops to Ukraine regions

By Tom Westbrook and Xie Yu SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Global stocks tumbled while safe-havens rallied and oil surged on Tuesday as E..

Financial think-tank calls for regulated ESG ratings in Britain

Financial think-tank calls for regulated ESG ratings in Britain

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain should regulate sustainability ratings on companies to improve transparency, reduce the ..

COVID-hit Queen Elizabeth sends message to Brazil

COVID-hit Queen Elizabeth sends message to Brazil

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth sent a message of condolence to Brazil on Monday as she continued to carry ou..

Factbox-Britain scraps all remaining COVID-19 restrictions

Factbox-Britain scraps all remaining COVID-19 restrictions

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced the government would remove all remaining coronaviru..

EU will consider making countries fill gas storage – energy chief

EU will consider making countries fill gas storage – energy chief

By Isla Binnie MADRID (Reuters) – The European Union will consider whether to require member states to fill their natural gas st..

Is 2022 the right time for a business to start up as a company?

Is 2022 the right time for a business to start up as a company?

 By Samuel Leach, Director of Samuel & Co Trading Throughout the development of any business, there comes a point when the questio..

The Great Acceptance: Onboarding has never been more crucial as The Great Resignation accelerates career change

The Great Acceptance: Onboarding has never been more crucial as The Great Resignation accelerates career change

By Simon Blunn, SVP and General Manager EMEA at WalkMe Over the past year, if you have not directly lost colleagues as pa..

How active investors should profit in 2022

How active investors should profit in 2022

Christian Bauer, Managing Director, Head of Zurich Branch Flexibility is the order of the day. The once popular “..

Stocks steady on hopes for diplomacy in Ukraine

Stocks steady on hopes for diplomacy in Ukraine

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. stock futures bounced on Friday and selling pressure eased in Asian share markets af..

Bitcoin falls 7.4% to $40,632

Bitcoin falls 7.4% to $40,632

(Reuters) – Bitcoin dropped 7.4% to $40,631.78 at 2205 GMT on Thursday, down $3,248.05 from its previous close. Bitcoin, the wor..

European stocks drop as Russia-Ukraine tensions escalate

European stocks drop as Russia-Ukraine tensions escalate

By Sruthi Shankar and Shashank Nayar (Reuters) -European shares fell on Thursday as heightened Russia-Ukraine tensions eclipsed a slew..

Gold jumps, stocks stumble as Ukraine crisis deepens

Gold jumps, stocks stumble as Ukraine crisis deepens

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – Gold prices jumped to an eight-month high and safe-haven debt rose on Thursday after U.S. P..

Worker shortage jeopardises Spain’s EU-funded recovery plan

Worker shortage jeopardises Spain’s EU-funded recovery plan

By Corina Pons and Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – When Spain’s decade-long housing boom spectacularly bust in 2008, some..

Visa, Amazon reach global deal over payment fees

Visa, Amazon reach global deal over payment fees

(Reuters) – Visa Inc cards will be accepted at all Amazon.com Inc stores and sites as part of a global agreement, the companies ..

Air France-KLM beats expectations on long-haul recovery

Air France-KLM beats expectations on long-haul recovery

PARIS (Reuters) -Air France-KLM beat core profit expectations for 2021 due to a recovery in transatlantic travel in the fourth quarter..

Exclusive-Short AstraZeneca shelf life complicates COVID vaccine rollout to world’s poorest

Exclusive-Short AstraZeneca shelf life complicates COVID vaccine rollout to world’s poorest

By Francesco Guarascio and Jennifer Rigby BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – The relatively short shelf life of AstraZeneca Plc’s..

Kraft Heinz plans more price hikes as sales, earnings beat estimates

Kraft Heinz plans more price hikes as sales, earnings beat estimates

By Deborah Mary Sophia and Mehr Bedi (Reuters) -Kraft Heinz Co said on Wednesday it would raise the prices of its snacks and condiment..

Apple given fourth Dutch fine in App Store dispute

Apple given fourth Dutch fine in App Store dispute

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch antitrust watchdog fined Apple 5 million euros ($5.7 million) again on Monday, its fou..

China greenlights Audi-FAW’s $3.3 billion electric vehicle venture

China greenlights Audi-FAW’s $3.3 billion electric vehicle venture

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Volkswagen’s Audi and its Chinese state-owned partner FAW Group have received approval from Ch..

Australia drops landmark criminal cartel case against Citi, Deutsche

Australia drops landmark criminal cartel case against Citi, Deutsche

By Byron Kaye and Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Friday withdrew a cartel lawsuit against Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank A..

Volvo Cars Q4 profit lags forecasts

Volvo Cars Q4 profit lags forecasts

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Volvo Cars reported on Friday quarterly earnings below expectations, and said it expected to continue grow..

Light at end of tunnel for Czech services as government drops COVID pass

Light at end of tunnel for Czech services as government drops COVID pass

By Jiri Skacel PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech restaurant and hotel operators saw light at the end of the tunnel on Thursday as the gov..

31% of VCT investments in companies growing at more than 50% a year

31% of VCT investments in companies growing at more than 50% a year

New research published by Wealth Club today shows that almost a third (31%) of Venture Capital Trust (VCT) investments are into privat..

Polaris Flexible Capital Completes First Close with 500 million DKK

Polaris Flexible Capital Completes First Close with 500 million DKK

Polaris Private Equity (“Polaris”), a leading Nordic buyout investor, is pleased to announce the first close of Polaris Flexible Capit..

Midlands Engine partners unite to call for greater investment in regional connectivity – critical to levelling up the Midlands and economic prosperity

Midlands Engine partners unite to call for greater investment in regional connectivity – critical to levelling up the Midlands and economic prosperity

Delivering 5G connectivity alone is expected to be worth £21 billion (GVA) to the national and regional economy over the next decade ..

Hexagon launches disruptive open innovation start-up platform to accelerate technology commercialisation in global manufacturing industry

Hexagon launches disruptive open innovation start-up platform to accelerate technology commercialisation in global manufacturing industry

 Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, which provides engineering, production and quality technology and services to the worl..

Provenir Achieves Record Growth in New Customers and Revenue in 2021

Provenir Achieves Record Growth in New Customers and Revenue in 2021

Provenir, a global leader in AI-powered risk decisioning software, today announced record growth in 2021, achieving a 194 percent incr..

London-based Adtech Startup, Playrcart, Closes Pre-Series A Round at $2.75 million

London-based Adtech Startup, Playrcart, Closes Pre-Series A Round at $2.75 million

Playrcart (www.playrcart.com), the company that makes advertising assets instantly transactional, today announces that it has secured ..

Major New Poll: Third of young people want to set up new business as confidence in economy grows

Major New Poll: Third of young people want to set up new business as confidence in economy grows

New poll reveals one third of Britons aged 18-24 want to start their own businesses in future Poll shows that millennials (aged 25-..

PLATINUM JUBILEE: INTERACTIVE INVESTOR LOOKS AT BRITISH BRANDS STANDING TEST OF TIME AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE – WILL MARMITE STILL BE DIVIDING OPINION IN 2092?

PLATINUM JUBILEE: INTERACTIVE INVESTOR LOOKS AT BRITISH BRANDS STANDING TEST OF TIME AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE – WILL MARMITE STILL BE DIVIDING OPINION IN 2092?

With Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee on Sunday 6 February, interactive investor looks at the twenty-five most widely held stocks on..

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KPN Ventures invests in Censornet’s Series C funding round to accelerate growth and enhance innovation

KPN Ventures invests in Censornet’s Series C funding round to accelerate growth and enhance innovation

– Dutch telco KPN-backed venture fund, KPN Ventures, to invest in Censornet, aiming for long-term partnership to escalate the availability of en..