Finance

The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britain’s slavery history.

The state pension is expected to increase by 3.9 percent next April, according to new figures.

The Bank of England will cease selling 20- and 30-year gilts under plans to revamp its debt sales, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

One of history’s largest ever money laundering busts left officials in Singapore with a multibillion-dollar question: What to do with the cars, properties and thousands of luxury goods seized in the investigation?

BitConnect Ponzi promoter Trevon James Brown has settled with the SEC for $1.7 million.

The UK is issuing a whopping £655million to support four major infrastructure projects in Angola, despite Britain’s borrowing costs rocketing to levels not witnessed in decades.

Two US companies are seeking to advance Donald Trump’s vision of Alaska as a major gas exporter — but face long odds in developing projects to profit from some of the world’s most abundant untapped gasfields.

Donald Trump’s childhood home has officially changed hands — and the presidential pedigree appears to have paid off.

The fallen leader of the former top exchange FTX is looking for answers from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The head of air traffic control has been paid more than £2million in bonuses over the past three years despite overseeing repeated system failures.

Britain’s borrowing costs have rocketed to levels not witnessed in decades, as escalating Middle East conflict and surging energy prices rattle bond markets.

Andy Burnham has been accused of launching a raid on struggling families with a new tourist tax.

Law firm Latham & Watkins has bought its own Nvidia GPU servers and started customising AI models, an expensive and technically demanding set-up that shows how much the technology is changing Big Law’s business model.

Hunter Biden launched a memecoin called $LAPTOP on Wednesday, and within an hour of its debut on the Base blockchain the token had lost roughly 98% of its value, falling from a peak of $190.81 to as low as $3.70.

McLaren is believed to have given the green light to plans that will create 1,000 jobs with a new investment worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

Singapore has announced a dramatic one-off pay rise for government ministers including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, already the highest-paid head of government in the world, despite domestic disapproval of politicians’ high salaries.

Swiss federal court found the former head of the Swiss Bankers Association guilty of paying 82.3 million Swiss francs to a senior Kuwaiti official between 2000 and 2012.

The rating agency’s new framework combines Wall Street financial auditing with Web3 code reviews to evaluate both off-chain reserves and on-chain security.

Bloc losing €13bn in revenue with one in 10 cigarettes illegal, watchdog reports

Grindr has agreed to pay £26m to settle a lawsuit over allegations it shared users’ personal information - including their HIV status - with third parties.

Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed its plans to slash 4,000 roles over the next two years in a bid to save £1.7billion after concerning financial results.

Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey have been issued major warnings as Britain is "taxing itself into death."

The board of German car giant Volkswagen has approved a plan to cut another 50,000 jobs as part of the biggest restructuring in the group’s almost nine-decade history.

Hundreds of employers have been named by the Government for failing to pay workers the minimum wage.