When the government announced a rise in the stamp duty surcharge for landlords and second-home buyers, many predicted a mass exodus of buy-to-let investors. Cue dramatic headlines forecasting doom for the UK housing market and a bleak future for tenants searching for affordable rental homes. But has this actually happened? Not quite. Despite a hefty … Read more
It looks like Vanguard is no longer the undisputed consumer champion of old. Vanguard’s USP has been waning for a while but the recent announcement of a £4 per month minimum charge for DIY investment services has put the tin lid on it. Previously, Vanguard’s DIY investors paid a 0.15% platform fee calculated on their … Read more
Hamilton, the Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance holding company, has continued to earn positive performance fees from activities under its Ada Capital Management third-party capital platform and its Ada Re collateralized reinsurance and retrocession underwriting vehicle, in the third-quarter of this year.As we reported back in August, Hamilton’s performance fees earned through Ada Capital Management … Read more
The adoption rate of phishing-resistant forms of multi-factor authentication (MFA) such as WebAuthn hardware keys, device-based passkeys and Okta’s own FastPass nearly doubled in 2023, a study of Okta workplace users finds. But their overall usage rate is still very small. At the same time, the adoption rate of all forms of MFA, weak or … Read more
The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report revealed that 49.6% of the global internet traffic came from bots in 2023—a 2% increase over the previous year and the highest level Imperva has reported since it began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. Similarly, the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023, … Read more
