Katherine Langford

London launches £70m fund to back startups struggling to raise investment

A new £70m fund backed by the Mayor of London and the British Business Bank has launched to help growing businesses struggling to secure finance from traditional lenders. The Future London Growth Fund, managed by investment firm FSE Group, will offer loans of between £1m and £3m to companies across...

The FSE Group launches £70M+ London growth fund to back underserved scaleups

The FSE Group has launched the Future London Growth Fund, a new debt fund designed to support the growth of ambitious scale-up businesses across London’s 32 boroughs and the City of London. The Fund is backed by cornerstone commitments from the British Business Bank and the Mayor of London’s...

Children in care to get £10 a week savings

Eligible people in the care system will be able to access the savings once they turn 18.

Healey: I want to help bloody-minded founders

John Healey has pledged to devote next week s Budget to bloody-minded entrepreneurs , acknowledging small and fast-growing businesses have been under pressure from a barrage of fresh taxes and regulation. The Chancellor said he would clamp down on the cost of business as well as on the cost of...

LSEG pushes up profit forecast as it confirms $3.5bn Octus swoop

LSEG has upped its profit forecast for a second time as the operator of the London Stock Exchange confirmed plans to take on credit data specialist Octus in a $3.5bn (£2.6bn) deal. The FTSE 100 firm said the deal to acquire the New York-based business “significantly expands LSEG’s fixed income...

Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg calls out Luka Doncic, both on court and after huge loss to Lakers

Yaxel Lendeborg has only played one NBA game, yet he's already started a feisty feud with Luka Doncic.The Golden State Warriors rookie began his career Wednesday night by refusing to back down from the reigning NBA scoring champion, who punctuated their prolonged on-court exchange of trash talk by...

Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg calls out Luka Doncic, both on court and after huge loss to Lakers

Yaxel Lendeborg has only played one NBA game, yet he's already started a feisty feud with Luka Doncic.The Golden State Warriors rookie began his career Wednesday night by refusing to back down from the reigning NBA scoring champion, who punctuated their prolonged on-court exchange of trash talk by...

AJ Bell hits record assets under administration as customer numbers surge

AJ Bell has reported record assets under administration after attracting a wave of new customers across its divisions. The London-listed investment platform said its assets under administration (AUA) rose 22 per cent year-on-year to £126bn in an end of year trading update. The group’s assets under...

Hong Kong watchdog warns of hacking risks from flaws in web programming language

A Hong Kong information security watchdog issued an “extremely high risk” warning on Thursday morning over two critical flaws in a widely used web programming language that could allow hackers to execute code remotely and take control of servers. The warning followed similar alerts from governments...

Why was Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann fined ₹50,000 at Delhi airport? ' ₹2.5-lakh shoes, suits' — AAP, BJP in war of words

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagant Mann was returning from France when he was “forcefully” stopped at Delhi airport and allegedly fined ₹50,000.

Bank, business and ministry websites halted after PHP vulnerabilities announced

International authorities have urged site administrators to immediately update software to prevent unauthorized access and potential data exposure.

A second female lawmaker in Australia is threatened days after alleged car attack

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man has been charged with threatening an Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks, police said Thursday, days after another legislator was critically injured when a man repeatedly hit her with a car.The incidents are heightening concerns about female politicians’...

China seeks to seize 61,800 BTC tied to $5.7 billion fraud scheme

WNBA Finals Game 3: Valkyries fall short to Dream with 97-71 loss at State Farm Arena

The Golden State Valkyries fell short to the Atlanta Dream with a 97-71 loss on Wednesday at State Farm Arena in Game 3 of the WNBA Finals.

Raindrops and Snowflakes

THURSDAY Additional wraparound showers, including the morning commute, with breaks between rounds. A lingering thunderstorm chance remains along the Central Coast, but the waterspout/tornado threat diminishes by late morning. Cooler temperatures and increasing onshore winds; dry weather returns...

Analysis-How a merged SpaceX-Tesla might navigate its China problem

Oct 22 (Reuters) Elon Musk’s potential mega-merger of Tesla and SpaceX would likely face a China-shaped hurdle from regulators on both sides of the Pacific over concerns about national security and the sharing of data and technology. The world’s richest person said on Tuesday his two companies had...

NBA-No LeBron, no problem as Lakers blow out Warriors to open season

LOS ANGELES, Oct 21 (Reuters) Luka Doncic and newly acquired center Walker Kessler led the Los Angeles Lakers to a 127-105 rout of the Golden State Warriors in their season-opener on Wednesday ​in their first game since LeBron James departure. The Lakers began ‌the new campaign after an offseason...

Australia's Schutt handed two-match ban over prescription medication breach

Commercial income powers Europe's richest clubs as financial divide widens, study shows

King Fahd International Airport attack: 1 killed, 8 injured in Saudi Arabia's Dammam; US orders diplomats to leave

King Fahd airport has been attacked previously amid a wider wave of Houthi missile and projectile strikes targeting major airports in Saudi Arabia.