Watchdog weighs probe of PwC over WHSmith profit overstatement
Revenue errors in retailer’s accounts prompt latest scrutiny of Big Four accounting firm’s audits
$2B Counter-Strike 2 crash exposes a legal black hole: Your digital investments aren’t really yours
In late October 2025, as much as US$2 billion vanished from a digital marketplace. This wasn’t a hack or a bubble bursting.
Could new tenants’ rights usher in rent controls? Here’s why that wouldn’t necessarily be a positive
David Fowler/ShutterstockHousing and high rental costs have been a major issue for the UK in the past decade. While other countries have moved towards protections for renters, rent control has not been a widespread feature of the British rental market for over a generation.
EU confronts Italy over its ‘golden power’ rules to stop foreign mergers
European Commission issues formal warning that Rome’s measures to deter takeovers risk compromising single market
UK watchdog rebuffs hedge funds’ calls for drastic cut in reporting rules
FCA says ‘streamlining’ of requirements to report transactions will save companies more than £108mn a year
The ‘Marathon Man’ approach to bank supervision
Can we really build better mousetraps?
Letters from Andrew Bailey on the Bank’s Black Future Leadership Sponsorship Programme
Letters to Rupert Lowe MP
OPEKEPE inquiry sparks new political clash as despondent public looks on
The parliamentary inquiry into the OPEKEPE farming subsidy scandal has been thrown into turmoil, with the government being accused by the opposition of ensuring that a key witness Giorgos Xylouris – a Cretan farmer and former New Democracy member nicknamed “Frappé” - will not testify.
A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving These New Yorkers Behind
As fewer people carry cash, vendors, street performers and people experiencing homelessness and unemployment are at a disadvantage.
Clifford Chance cites AI as it axes 10% of back-office staff
Magic Circle legal firm also shifts work to lower-cost hubs in Poland and India
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