‘If you are a lawyer and you want to enrich yourself by working as an arm of Russian intelligence, you should assume you are not going to be able to travel,’ Bill Browder told Financial News
@Billbrowder
Queen’s University Belfast has placed top of a new list ranking the UK’s leading universities on their capacity for commercialising research, beating both Cambridge and Oxford
‘It’s shameful for any of these people to continue to be in Russia,’ according to fund manager and Putin critic Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
#Ukraine
#Kremlin
Craig Wright, the British computer scientist who claims to have created bitcoin, says a UK court victory is a 'critical step' in his bid for recognition
Craig Wright, the British computer scientist who claims to have created bitcoin, says a UK court victory is a 'critical step' in his bid for recognition
#Heathrow
tells airlines to STOP SELLING TICKETS as passenger surge overwhelms airport
El-Erian calls it 'a useful illustration of how persistent supply dislocations can lower demand yet keep inflation high'
@elerianm
#Heathrow
#travelsurge
Gina and Alan Miller, among the City's fiercest critics of the UK regulator, have written to the parliament's influential Treasury Select Committee urging it to kick start an independent investigation into the collapse of Neil Woodford's flagship fund.
The venture capital arms of HSBC, Microsoft, Seedcamp and Santander have formed an 11-member consortium to power a diversity-focused fellowship programme for investing
#venturecapital
Financial markets remain blissfully in denial of the many predictable global crises that could come to a head this year — here's
@Nouriel
Roubini on the white swans of 2020
JPMorgan, which gets through 7.5 million plastic food and drink containers every year across its 16,000-strong UK workforce, introduced plastic and paper cuts ban last month – writes
@paultclarke
.
As
@BBCPanorama
catalogues how the FCA failed to act on red flags in the Blackmore Bonds scandal, we can reveal that issues with the regulator's whistleblowing processes persist.
#Panorama
Natixis has agreed to cut ties with embattled asset management affiliate H2O — an arrangement that will see the French bank sell its stake to the investment unit's management
'VC firms are full of spreadsheet jockeys' and fintech conferences are 'bullsh*t' - FN's
@RyanJamesWeeks
finds
@LendInvest
's founder Christian Faes is not short of opinions
MPs to vote on
#Brexit
deal: Here’s when today's votes are going to happen, when the Future Relationship bill might become law and where to watch as it all happens
“There’s nothing like getting thrown into a crisis to force you to roll your sleeves up and get on with it,” Kristine Braden tells
@paultclarke
for this week's Audience With:
Almost 1,500 financial services firms based in the EU have applied for permission to operate in the UK, as London is set to retain its spot as a top global financial hub following the end of the
#Brexit
transition period
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Standard Chartered is offering a route into a front line investment banking job for those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds by scrapping the need for academic qualifications for a select group of students.