Category: Business
Business
National Grid: Coal plants put on standby to supply electricity
(qlmbusinessnews.com via bbc.co.uk - - Mon 12th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - National Grid has ordered two coal plants to begin warming up in[more...]
Microsoft to buy 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group
(qlmbusinessnews.com via news.sky.com-- Mon, 12th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - The London Stock Exchange Group has said the deal brings together its "leading data[more...]
Should We All Live in 15 Minute Cities?
Source: BBC What if everything you needed for daily life was within a 15-minute walk or cycle from your house? Half the world's population live[more...]
Royal Mail workers begin strikes over pay and conditions
(qlmbusinessnews.com via bbc.co.uk - - Fri, 9th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - Thousands of postal workers at Royal Mail are on strike over pay[more...]
Santander fined £107.8m for repeated money-laundering failures
(qlmbusinessnews.com via news.sky.com-- Fri, 9th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - The sum is a discounted amount, down from nearly £154m, as the lender agreed[more...]
Applying lessons from FTX crypto collapse will be ‘pacy’-UK watchdog says
(qlmbusinessnews.com via uk.reuters.com -- Fri, 9th Dec 2022) London, UK -- Lessons will be applied swiftly from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX that left[more...]
Trafigura hands out $1.7bn in dividends on profits fuelled by Ukraine war
(qlmbusinessnews.com via theguardian.com - - Thur, 8th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - The commodities trading firm Trafigura is to hand more than $1.7bn (£1.4bn) to its[more...]
Brazil central bank grants Google Pay payment institution status
(qlmbusinessnews.com via uk.reuters.com -- Thur, 8th Dec 2022) London, UK -- Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Pay has received approval to operate as a payment institution in Brazil, Latin[more...]
Grant Shapps unveiled compensation scheme for postmasters impacted by the post office scandal
(qlmbusinessnews.com via news.sky.com-- Wed, 7th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - Postmasters who were impacted by the Post Office scandal starting from the late 1990s[more...]
UK agree to double US gas imports under new deal
(qlmbusinessnews.com via bbc.co.uk - - Wed, 7th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - The UK has agreed to double imports of US gas over the[more...]
Asda to create 10,000 jobs, with 300 new UK convenience stores
(qlmbusinessnews.com via theguardian.com - - Tue, 6th Dec 2022) London, Uk - - Supermarket hopes to grab bigger share of burgeoning sector, possibly threatening Sainsbury’s[more...]
UK opposition seeks to force release of documents related to COVID-19 contracts
(qlmbusinessnews.com via uk.reuters.com -- Tue, 6th Dec, 2022) London, UK -- Britain's Conservative lawmakers have been told they do not have to try to block[more...]