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UK bookmakers that warned over illicit market had deal with offshore casinos
Content provider part-owned by Ladbrokes, William Hill and Betfred owner signed deal with Santeda network, Casino Secrets leak revealsThree UK bookmakers that have repeatedly warn…
EU Presses Binance Over ‘Reverse Solicitation’ Exemption for Users: Report
Regulators are probing how the exchange keeps serving EU customers from Abu Dhabi, months after it lost its MiCA registrations.
'We're still cold paying £300 a month energy bills'
A pensioner says trying to keep warm this winter will be "horrific" amid rising energy costs.
Bitcoin ETFs draw $6.3B in Q3 as BTC price rises nearly 43%
Bitcoin gained 42.71% in Q3, its best third-quarter performance since 2017, as US spot ETFs attracted $6.34 billion in net inflows.
MetaMask security incident forces Ethereum staking exits, no funds at risk
An Ethereum security researcher estimates about 0.36 ETH in rewards was diverted, while precautionary exits cover validators holding roughly 523,000 ETH.
Forget supersized: McDonald’s is exploring an $8.5 billion bet on an American fast food wave led by proteinmaxxing, portion control, and GLP-1s
Even fast food giants have to change with the times as GLP-1s and protein become the new normal.
‘We all chip in’: America’s $40 billion private jet boom is taking off, and taxpayers are helping billionaires foot the bill
Private flyers get tax breaks and taxpayer-funded airport projects while contributing relatively little to air traffic infrastructure
Wilbur Ross was Trump’s first-term tariff hawk. Now he says refunds give importers ‘an extra profit’ and pay them ‘more than the money’ they laid out
The former Commerce secretary says importers who passed tariff costs on to customers are now being paid back for money they didn't lose.
Trump removes chairs for TSA agents, saying they ‘must meet fitness for duty requirements’
The White House has given the Office of Personnel Management more power to hire and fire federal workers on the basis of fitness.
Visa and Mastercard handle nearly half of Europe’s card payments. The digital euro aims to change that
The European Central Bank's €1.3 billion bet offers an alternative to the U.S. payments giants, but it faces an uphill battle to win over consumers, merchants, and banks.
John Waldron is ‘one of the most non-Wall Street people’ you’ve met—but he’s in line to be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs
A top Wall Street analyst says John Waldron gives off the affect of an English Lit professor from the Midwest. His track record at Goldman tells a different story.
The real story behind Red Lobster’s $20 Ultimate Endless Shrimp fiasco: How an American seafood icon lost its way
The disastrous promotional offer, which played a role in the chain's bankruptcy, wasn't a blunder but a conspiracy, a lawsuit alleges.
AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
Former Meta Chief AI Scientist shares his take on recent rogue AI incidents, effective altruism, and his plans for his new company, AMI Labs.
The unicorn CEO betting her industry’s AI crisis isn’t the one you think
"This is a profession that is actually in crisis mode," Datasnipper CEO Vidya Peters told Fortune — and AI is the salvation.
UK house price growth halves amid rising mortgage interest rates
Prices fell by 0.2% month on month in September as average price of a home slipped to £274,251, says NationwideBusiness live – latest updatesAnnual house price growth halved in th…
Annual UK house price growth halves as mortgage rates rise – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Nationwide reports house prices fell in SeptemberThe average price of a terraced home is up 1.8% over last year – ma…
‘Giving while living’ has become a popular trend for passing on family wealth, says Edward Jones CEO
Penny Pennington says there can be significant benefits to giving money to family members while you're still alive—one of which is simple joy.
Bitcoin think tank questions MSCI’s ‘invisible committee’ over Strategy, Metaplanet rule
A Bitcoin Policy Institute paper says MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rule could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes and may have roots in an earlier crypto tr…
Fuel prices leave people asking 'what can we do?'
Record fuel prices across the country have left people in the South looking for ways to cope.
'We're still cold paying £300 a month energy bills'
Redditch residents say they are worried they will not be able to afford heating.
Healey urged to offer energy support in budget as bills rise 4%
Millions of people in Great Britain face increase from Thursday to an average of £1,723 a year for a typical homeJohn Healey is under growing pressure to offer fresh energy suppor…
The zero-bills home: how one family is beating the energy price hikes
The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pumpClare Naylor paid close attention to how m…
Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shownAndy Burnham does a nice line i…
Dogecoin gets DeFi testnet as DogeOS bets miners will eventually secure its apps
DogeOS wants to turn DOGE into more than a payments and speculation asset, but its applications still rely on selected operators rather than Dogecoin miners.