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Kleinwort Hambros announces partnerships with Jersey Women’s Refuge and Guernsey’s Rural Occupational Workshop 

Kleinwort Hambros announces partnerships with Jersey Women’s Refuge and Guernsey’s Rural Occupational Workshop 

  Kleinwort Hambros is pleased to announce that it has partnered with two charities to support local communities in the Channel I..

UK’s Sunak, under fire over cost of living, defends his tax cut plans

UK’s Sunak, under fire over cost of living, defends his tax cut plans

LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rishi Sunak on Monday defended the tax cuts he announced last week, after they were widely ..

EU leaders struggle for deal on energy crunch fix

EU leaders struggle for deal on energy crunch fix

By Sabine Siebold and John Irish BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders struggled on Friday to agree on steps to ease the energy m..

Commodities trading houses help keep Russian oil flowing

Commodities trading houses help keep Russian oil flowing

By Julia Payne LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – Commodities traders such as Trafigura and Vitol have helped keep Russia’s..

UK customs duties jump 63% in a year to record £4.7bn – adding to cost of living crisis

UK customs duties jump 63% in a year to record £4.7bn – adding to cost of living crisis

Customs duties paid by UK businesses have jumped 63% to a record £4.7bn in the year to 31 January 2022, up from £2.9bn in the previous..

‘Indefensible’: UK’s Sunak under fire over response to cost of living crisis

‘Indefensible’: UK’s Sunak under fire over response to cost of living crisis

By William Schomberg and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rishi Sunak faced broad criticism on Thursday for not g..

Hungary ramps up rate hikes as war stokes inflation risks

Hungary ramps up rate hikes as war stokes inflation risks

By Gergely Szakacs and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The National Bank of Hungary raised its base rate by 100 basis points..

Kreston Reeves acts as Reporting Accountant for Majestic Corporation Plc

Kreston Reeves acts as Reporting Accountant for Majestic Corporation Plc

Kreston Reeves has acted as Reporting Accountant for Majestic Corporation Plc on its stock market listing. The Kreston Reeves corporat..

EU split on Russia oil sanctions

EU split on Russia oil sanctions

By Sabine Siebold and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign ministers disagreed on Monday on w..

NTT and Schneider Electric Join Forces to Power IoT Environments with Private Wireless Network Trials

NTT and Schneider Electric Join Forces to Power IoT Environments with Private Wireless Network Trials

Combined capabilities from NTT and Schneider Electric enable a secure and on-premises end-to-end digital platform that supports diffe..

Harvey Nash Group expands global delivery capability by opening offshore development centers in Latin America

Harvey Nash Group expands global delivery capability by opening offshore development centers in Latin America

Harvey Nash Group has announced it is expanding the global delivery capability of its NashTech technology solutions business by openin..

MODERNISING LPA PROCESS IS WELCOME BUT MUST BE DONE PROPERLY, SAYS LAWYER

MODERNISING LPA PROCESS IS WELCOME BUT MUST BE DONE PROPERLY, SAYS LAWYER

Government plans to digitize the outdated Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) process have been welcomed by lawyers who say it has been di..

Balancing Britain’s energy security options as prices rise

Balancing Britain’s energy security options as prices rise

By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is expected to publish its plan next week on how to boost domestic energy supplies to try..

Life echoes art for Ukraine’s Eurovision refugee

Life echoes art for Ukraine’s Eurovision refugee

By Yesim Dikmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Six years ago Ukrainian singer Jamala conquered Europe with a song about Soviet leader Jose..

Bank of England raises rates in 8-1 vote

Bank of England raises rates in 8-1 vote

LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England raised interest rates on Thursday in a bid to keep fast-rising inflation in check but, wi..

Ukrainian refugees hope for peace, but more expected to flee

Ukrainian refugees hope for peace, but more expected to flee

By Anna Koper and Krisztina Than PRZEMYSL, Poland/BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Thousands more refugees crossed into Eastern Europe on Th..

Top auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London

Top auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) -Auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams have cancelled sales of Russian a..

Biden to address Zelenskiy appeal, still opposes ‘no fly zone’

Biden to address Zelenskiy appeal, still opposes ‘no fly zone’

By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will announce an additional $800 million in security a..

New talk of compromise on both sides lifts hope for Russia-Ukraine breakthrough

New talk of compromise on both sides lifts hope for Russia-Ukraine breakthrough

By James Mackenzie and Natalia Zinets KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a statu..

Close to 3 million have fled fighting in Ukraine

Close to 3 million have fled fighting in Ukraine

By Anna Koper and Olimpiu Gheorghiu PRZEMYSL, Poland/PALANCA, Moldova (Reuters) -Nearly three weeks into the war, the number of Ukrain..

Symbol of resistance as EU leaders head to Kyiv ‘where history is forged’

Symbol of resistance as EU leaders head to Kyiv ‘where history is forged’

By Pavel Polityuk, Natalia Zinets and Omer Berberoglu LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) – Three European prime ministers rode a train..

State Street to Develop Digital Custody in Collaboration with Copper.co

State Street to Develop Digital Custody in Collaboration with Copper.co

LONDON, March 9, 2022 – State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced today that State Street Digital, the firm’s dedicated Digital d..

CircleCI Acquires Ponicode, Adding AI-powered Testing to Their CI/CD Offering to Ease Daily Life for Software Developers

CircleCI Acquires Ponicode, Adding AI-powered Testing to Their CI/CD Offering to Ease Daily Life for Software Developers

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2022 — CircleCI, the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced ..

PENSIONS DASHBOARDS MUST PASS THREE KEY TESTS BEFORE BEING OPENED TO PUBLIC TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT AND DETRIMENT

PENSIONS DASHBOARDS MUST PASS THREE KEY TESTS BEFORE BEING OPENED TO PUBLIC TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT AND DETRIMENT

Pensions Dashboards must meet threshold tests for coverage, accurate data matches and user understanding to ensure savers are not met ..

Organisations Call For Security Transparency To Be Industry Best Practice

Organisations Call For Security Transparency To Be Industry Best Practice

LONDON, UK, 10 March 2022: HackerOne, the world’s most trusted provider of ethical hacking solutions, has today launched its Corporate..

Tableau Honors Top Performing Partners with 2021 EMEA Partner Awards

Tableau Honors Top Performing Partners with 2021 EMEA Partner Awards

LONDON, March 10, 2022 – Tableau, the world’s leading analytics platform that is part of Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) honoured its top..

Digital Insurance Platform EIS Appoints Rory Yates to Drive Strategy in EMEA

Digital Insurance Platform EIS Appoints Rory Yates to Drive Strategy in EMEA

Environmentalist behind the E-Alliance at COP26 turns his focus to insurance London, UK – 10 MARCH EIS, a core and digital platf..

COVID, War and Fed push world stocks down for 4th day

COVID, War and Fed push world stocks down for 4th day

By Tommy Wilkes and Saikat Chatterjee LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks fell for a fourth consecutive session on Tuesday as a comb..

Sterling rebounds after hitting 16-month low

Sterling rebounds after hitting 16-month low

By Samuel Indyk LONDON (Reuters) – The British pound eked out gains against the U.S. dollar on Monday, recovering after falling ..

Biden, G7 revoke Russia’s favored nation trading status

Biden, G7 revoke Russia’s favored nation trading status

By Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday the G7 industrialized nations will revoke ..

Russia shifts stance on hospital bombing that sparked world outrage

Russia shifts stance on hospital bombing that sparked world outrage

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – Russia shifted its stance over the bombing of a Ukrainian hospital in the city of Mariupol,..

Exclusive-TikTok nears deal with Oracle to store its data-sources

Exclusive-TikTok nears deal with Oracle to store its data-sources

By Echo Wang and David Shepardson (Reuters) – TikTok is nearing a deal for Oracle Corp to store its U.S. users’ informatio..

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

(Reuters) – Ukraine said Moscow had snubbed its plea for humanitarian access to rescue hundreds of thousands of civilians trappe..

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

(Reuters) – Russia announced a new ceasefire in Ukraine on Wednesday to let civilians flee besieged cities, but there were only ..

Ukrainian women fleeing war find welcome, and work, in Eastern Europe

Ukrainian women fleeing war find welcome, and work, in Eastern Europe

By Krisztina Than VESZPREM, Hungary (Reuters) – Two days after arriving from the bombarded outskirts of Kyiv following a gruelli..

Scant progress evacuating Ukrainian civilians despite Russian ceasefire promise

Scant progress evacuating Ukrainian civilians despite Russian ceasefire promise

By Natalia Zinets LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia announced a new ceasefire in Ukraine on Wednesday to let civilians flee besie..

LME forced to halt nickel trading, cancel deals, after prices top $100,000

LME forced to halt nickel trading, cancel deals, after prices top $100,000

By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) – The London Metal Exchange (LME) was forced to halt nickel trading and cancel trades after pric..