FireChat Takes Home SXSW Innovation Award

“The EU set up the system in 2017, to put pressure on countries to crack down on tax havens and unfair competition, sanctioning those it considered unfair in offering tax avoidance schemes. However, with this news coming in just weeks after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, many are concerned it’s a sign of things to come,” says Granville Turner, Director at Offshore Company Formation Specialists, Turner Little.

London Metal Exchange reports low prices as international pressures cause problems for copper trade.

UK interest rates have been held again by the Bank of England. They remain at a record low of 0.5%.

For many of us, online banking and credit/debit cards are an essential part of our everyday lives as they allow us to pay for a multitude of necessities such as food and utility bills. Despite this, they are vulnerable to opportunistic criminals who may defraud an online bank account or use a payment card/cheque that is stolen/forged/cloned by them.

NephroGenex, Inc., a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutics to treat kidney disease, today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock and expects to raise gross proceeds of up to $30 million. In addition, NephroGenex expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $4.5 million of shares of its common stock in connection with the offering. All of the shares in the offering will be sold by NephroGenex.

The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has responded to HMRC’s long-awaited consultation on “Raising standards in the tax advice market”, which closes for submissions today. HMRC has asked the industry and consumers for their views on how best to tackle what it calls significant levels of substandard tax advice in the market wherein a “minority of practitioners who are incompetent, unprofessional or unscrupulous who continue to operate, harming their clients and the public finances”

At some point in your life, you have been encouraged to think outside the box. In the simplest terms, it means to consider something that stands outside the mainstream. However, that advice needs a lot more nuance to be truly useful. You don’t want to take a hostile view toward the mainstream solution. Most of the time, the mainstream solution is the best one. After all, that is how it became the mainstream in the first place. It is the thing that works most often.

Cybersecurity certificates are becoming increasingly important in today’s digital age. From boosting career opportunities to validating expertise in IT, there are many reasons why more and more people are gaining cybersecurity certificates to bolster their CV.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed fines totalling £1,114,918,000 ($1.7 billion) on five banks for failing to control business practices in their G10 spot foreign exchange (FX) trading operations.

Amelia Renkert-Thomas, Co-founder of family business consultancy Withers Consulting Group, outlines the need for governance and the different approaches family offices can take to it, in partnership with the Family Office Association.