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FCA Finfluencer Crackdown: What Firms Must Change to Comply

24th April 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) finfluencer crackdown requires firms to treat social media financial promotions as a controlled compliance function, not a marketing add-on. Any firm using influencers, affiliates, introducers, paid creators, or third-party campaign partners must be able to prove that promotions are authorised, approved, monitored, and capable of being removed quickly. The FCA-led […]
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Intel’s 20% Jump Is Exactly What the Bank of England Is Talking About

24th April 2026
Intel’s shares jumped about 20% after the company beat first-quarter forecasts and issued stronger-than-expected guidance. The numbers were good. The bigger question is what the rally says about the market around it. When one strong AI-linked quarter can produce that kind of reaction, it starts to look a lot like the sort of pricing behaviour […]
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Why Porsche Is Selling Bugatti and Rimac Now

24th April 2026
Porsche is selling its stakes in Bugatti Rimac and Rimac Group at a time when the main business is under much more strain than the brand would like to suggest. On paper, this is a disposal. In practice, it looks like a company deciding that capital has to stay closer to the core. Porsche said […]
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Warner Shareholders Backed Paramount’s Deal. That Tells You Who Now Owns Hollywood

24th April 2026
Warner Bros Discovery shareholders have overwhelmingly backed Paramount Skydance’s roughly $110bn takeover, pushing one of the biggest media deals in years closer to completion. The immediate story is the merger. The more revealing one is the money behind it. This vote says something bigger than whether investors wanted Warner sold. It shows who now has […]
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Meta Is Cutting 8,000 Jobs to Pay for AI

24th April 2026
Meta is cutting about 8,000 jobs while pushing AI spending to extraordinary levels. That is not just another tech layoff round. It is a clear sign of where the money now ranks inside big tech. Labour is being treated as the cost that can move. AI is being treated as the cost that cannot. The […]
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Revolut’s UK Banking Licence Put Mortgages and Its IPO Back in Play

23rd April 2026
Revolut recently said it wants to secure banking licences in both France and the United States, just weeks after finally winning a full UK banking licence. That is what makes the latest move matter. Without the UK approval, the push into France and the US would look like another expansion story. With it, the company […]
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UK Mortgage Rates Are Falling Again. Why Borrowers Still Need to Be Careful

23rd April 2026
UK mortgage rates are falling again, with TSB, Santander and Virgin Money joining Barclays and HSBC in cutting selected deals after the violent repricing that followed the Iran war. That sounds like relief. It is not a reset. The market is becoming less dysfunctional, but borrowing is still far more expensive than it was before […]
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Blackstone Raised $70bn as Returns Slipped. That Should Worry Investors

23rd April 2026
Blackstone pulled in almost $70bn in the first quarter even as returns weakened across private credit, private equity and parts of real estate. That is not just a strong fundraising quarter. It is a warning about what private markets are becoming. Money is still pouring in even when performance is no longer doing enough to […]
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Why DeepSeek’s $20bn Valuation Matters More for Pay Than Capital

23rd April 2026
DeepSeek is raising money at a valuation above $20bn, but the more revealing part of the story is not the capital. It is the price. In most start-up rounds, valuation is the scoreboard. Here it looks more like a retention tool. That matters because when stock options make up a large share of researcher pay, […]
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Rishi Sunak Says AI Is Flattening Hiring. Britain Still Has No Tax Plan

23rd April 2026
Britain has an AI strategy, a skills strategy and an investment pitch, but the picture is less settled than ministers would like to suggest. Recently, OpenAI paused its main UK data-centre project in April over high energy costs and what Reuters described as an unfavourable regulatory environment, a reminder that ambition and delivery are not […]
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UK Inflation Is Back Above 3%. The Harder Problem Is Growth

22nd April 2026
UK inflation rose to 3.3% in March 2026, up from 3.0% in February, according to the Office for National Statistics. That is the headline. The harder part is what sits alongside it: weaker growth, higher business costs and a Bank of England that cannot deal with an imported energy shock as neatly as it would […]
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Why Critical Minerals Capital Is Moving Towards Supply-Chain Control

21st April 2026
The USA Rare Earth–Serra Verde deal is useful not because it is another mining acquisition, but because it shows where critical minerals capital is starting to move. Reuters reports that USA Rare Earth is buying Serra Verde in a $2.8 billion cash-and-stock transaction, adding an operating rare earth mine in Brazil to a portfolio that […]
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