HSBC Takes the Treasury into the Digital Vault
HM Treasury has chosen HSBC to supply the technology for the Digital Gilt Instrument pilot, a step meant to update part of London’s financial infrastructure. The selection, announced…
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Back to Beijing: Britain Tests the Waters with China, Eyes Open and Illusions Intact
Keir Starmer’s four day trip to Beijing on 29 January ended with a stage managed show of mutual calm, packaged as weighty diplomacy. After eight years without a…
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Blind Spots and Bad Bets: The Lords’ Verdict on a Trillion-Pound Shadow
A committee of peers has just finished looking into the UK’s booming private credit market—a sprawling, complex world where loans are made outside of traditional banks. What they…
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Keeping Up With the Joneses (and the Schmidts) in Crypto regulation
The Treasury has formally announced the timeline for implementing comprehensive cryptocurrency regulations, positioning the UK’s new framework in a rather telling geopolitical choice. With the rules set to…
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Building the Britcoin Cage: The Bank of England’s Plan to Tame Stablecoins
The Bank of England is preparing to unveil its regulatory framework for stablecoins around 10 November 2025, with a clear message that the UK aims to implement its…
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Of Pastures and Precedents: The Battle for Britain’s Dairy Soul
For generations, the British dairy sector has been far more than a mere industry; it is a cornerstone of the rural economy and an indelible part of the…
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If the Outlook is So Bleak, Why is the High Street Booming?
The resilience of British consumers has become a defining, and for some economists, a puzzling feature of the UK’s economic landscape. Defying gloomy forecasts and a challenging backdrop,…
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The Inflation Tax: How Treasury’s Cure Risks Killing the Patient
A stark warning has been issued to the government by Britain’s retail sector, stating that proposed tax increases risk fuelling a resurgence in inflation at a particularly precarious…
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The Great Stagnation: An OECD Report on the Managed Decline of a Formerly Great Economy
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has delivered a sobering prognosis for the British economy, forecasting that the UK will be saddled with the highest inflation…
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DWP will selectively interview benefit recipients in search of welfare fraud
The government is intensifying its campaign against systemic benefit fraud, authorising officers from the Department for Work and Pensions to conduct unannounced home visits targeting claimants suspected of…
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