Two weeks ago, I asked where the UK Payments Vision is. It should have been delivered this year, and yet there is still no sign of it. Having said that, the Bank of England did start to build a view. In late July 2024, the Bank of England launched a Discussion Paper on Innovation in money … Read more
AstraZeneca shares fell 8.4 per cent on Tuesday as a corruption purge involving its China chief risked spiralling wider, clouding the outlook in the UK drugmaker’s second-largest market. On Tuesday, Chinese publication Yicai reported that dozens of executives have been implicated in an investigation of medical insurance fraud. The report came after AstraZeneca disclosed last … Read more
“Tu mandato terminará en las 48 horas siguientes al envío de esta carta. Me gustaría agradecerte tu trabajo como ministro de Defensa”, dice la carta del primer ministro de Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, fechada este martes 5 de noviembre. Por medio de esta misiva, se ha anunciado la destitución de Yoav Gallant, compañero de Netanyahu en … Read more
People vote at an election polling site in the village of Mukwonago on November 05, 2024, in Mukwonago, Wisconsin. SPENCER PLATT / AFP US Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said he would be prepared to concede defeat after the vote on Tuesday, November 5, “if it’s a fair election”, while again raising concerns about the … Read more
More than half of Singaporeans polled in a recent survey support the demolition of 38 Oxley Road, but most respondents feel the controversy surrounding the family home of the country’s first prime minister should be a private matter and not a national issue. The latest findings from a small pool of 200 respondents interviewed by … Read more
