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City regulators to start oversight of tech firms that provide…
City regulators will begin cracking down in the new year on tech firms providing “critical” services to UK banks amid concerns that cyber-attacks and outage
Have England’s winemakers lost their sparkle?
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.When Chapel Down announced in Octob
Starmer asks UK regulators for ideas to boost growth
The letter - which is also understood to have been sent to the Environment Agency, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and healthcare regulators - was first
Starmer throws down gauntlet to watchdogs with growth edict
Sir Keir Starmer has ordered Britain's key watchdogs to remove barriers to growth in a bid to kickstart Britain's sluggish economy.Sky News has le
White City: Billions of pounds invested into Upstream project
An idea hatched in a pub has led to a £6bn transformation of an area in west London by turning it into a technology and life sciences quarter which has gone on
‘It’s not just a dancefloor’: the precipitous decline of UK…
When the patrons of Watford’s Pryzm nightclub celebrated New Year’s Eve on 31 December 2023, they were marking the end of an era, or rather, the end of seve
More than 28,000 UK retailers face ‘significant’ financial distress
More than 28,000 retailers are facing “significant” financial distress at the end of 2024, driven by rising business costs and weak consumer confidence, acc
Brexit: What will next chapter of UK-EU relations bring for…
Those arrangements preserve an open goods border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, at the cost of new controls on goods coming from the rest
UK steel industry calls for government to buy British in…
The UK steel industry has called for the government to promise to buy British as it prepares for a major expansion of offshore wind generation.Wind generation h
Living standards 2025 outlook ‘hardly cause for celebration’, says UK…
Household incomes will stagnate or fall next year but the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will be hoping people feel better off as a result of improvements to public
Fears over defence industry skills as UK waits for new…
BAE Systems’ sprawling factory in Warton, Lancashire, has been assembling combat aircraft for more than a century, building everything from Tornado fighters a
