HSBC has warned business banking customers that personal identification documents submitted during account applications may have been compromised following unauthorised access to a third-party platform. In an email sent to customers earlier this month, the bank confirmed that identity documents, images and contact details provided when opening a business account were exposed in the breach. HSBC stressed that its own ...
House Democrats are ready to go to war to save enhanced Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year, even if it means risking a partial government shutdown. Democrats and some moderate House Republicans have been sounding the alarm about the expiring healthcare subsidies for weeks, a fight that’s now coming to a head as ...
American companies have won a record $170 billion in foreign government contracts since President Donald Trump returned to office, the Department of Commerce announced Tuesday. The deals amount to 98 contracts and are expected to generate $144 billion in U.S.-manufactured exports and support nearly 600,000 American jobs, according to the International Trade Administration (ITA), the Commerce Department’s arm for trade ...
Matthew Cavedon What constitutional power does the federal government have to criminalize civil rights violations? This is the question raised by a recent Eleventh Circuit decision upholding the conviction of a racist who tried to run a black family off a Florida road. When the violator of someone’s civil rights is a state government, the federal power question is easy ...
The Trump administration is looking to cut funding for a program that provides permanent housing to the homeless, a move that may leave those the program aims to help back on the streets, according to a report. More than 170,000 people could be at risk of experiencing homelessness when more than half the funding for the Department of Housing and ...
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uncovered that the Biden administration placed some Americans who resisted the COVID-19 mask mandate or were involved in the events of Jan 6, 2021, on prolonged TSA watchlists, including some on a no-fly list typically reserved for suspected terrorists. Fox News Digital acquired the findings of an internal investigation ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant prospect for small businesses — it is already here, reshaping day-to-day operations and opening up new opportunities for growth. According to new research from YouGov, 31% of UK SMEs are actively using AI-powered tools, while a further 15% say they plan to adopt them in the near future. Just as AI has ...
Scottish cleantech spinout SeaWarm has secured £550,000 in funding to accelerate the rollout of its renewable heating technology, designed to cut fossil fuel use and lower carbon emissions across communities. The University of Edinburgh venture received £250,000 from angel investment syndicate Equity Gap, £250,000 from Scottish Enterprise, and £50,000 from Old College Capital, the university’s in-house venture fund. SeaWarm’s modular, ...
The British Business Bank has committed €20 million (£17.3m) to Notion Capital’s new €114 million (£98.6m) growth fund, Notion Capital Opportunities III. The investment strengthens the partnership between the state-backed bank and the London-based venture capital firm, which has a track record of backing high-growth UK and European software companies. The British Business Bank has been a long-standing backer of ...
The UK economy slowed sharply in the second quarter of 2025, with official figures confirming growth of just 0.3% between April and June, a marked deceleration from the 0.7% expansion in the first quarter. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that while the latest quarterly figure was unrevised, revisions to earlier estimates suggest growth in much of ...