News
This year the FCA has explicitly labelled hidden FX markups imposed by legacy brokers as poor practice rooted in poor communication – yet new data analysis from Glyde has revealed the true scale of the issue worldwide for smaller businesses.
EPIC 2025, presented by Cathay and HSBC, has successfully concluded its transcontinental pitching sessions, narrowing down 1,200 applications to the top 100 startups.
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s growth capital investor, announces the successful exit of OrganOx, the Oxford-based medtech company whose liver perfusion technology has transformed outcomes for transplant patients worldwide.
Gen Z are setting their sights high on entrepreneurship, as new joint research from Small Business Saturday UK and American Express finds 71% of 18- to 24-year-olds are interested in starting their own businesses, with almost a third of this number (31%) saying this is a closely held dream.
Borderless currency platform Glyde has been selected as one of just 15 fintechs nationwide to join JPMorgan Chase’s Fintech Forward Programme, a highly competitive accelerator designed to support high-potential UK fintechs poised to shape the future of financial services.
New research by UserTesting, the provider of human insights for retailers, shows that as the annual holiday season rolls back around, good customer service could encourage UK consumers to spend at least £251 more than they would have initially.
Extreme currency fluctuations have caused SMEs to face substantial losses and are compelling businesses to change their FX strategy.
UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are losing faith in the government’s ability to support them – and it’s threatening the country’s economic future.
The days of the strict suit-and-tie are waning in the UK workplace, as new data from hiring platform Indeed reveals a tenfold increase in job postings mentioning “casual dress” since before the pandemic.
The organisers of the upcoming Carbon Markets Africa Summit have announced the diamond sponsorship of TASC, the award-winning and pioneering carbon finance project developer with a proven track record of innovative climate mitigating techniques and investing in local communities.
Fintech Week London and Fintech Fringe are uniting. As part of the merger, this year’s Fintech Week London will now be incorporated into the Fintech Fringe Festival, taking place 9-10 September 2025 at Old Sessions House, Farringdon, London.
London continues to lead the UK in overall startup and small business activity, according to fresh data from GoDaddy’s Small Business Research Lab. However, rising housing costs in established hotspots like Hackney are prompting more founders to set up shop further east – reshaping the city’s entrepreneurial map.
SurrealDB, the developer-first multi-model database company, announced the launch of SurrealMCP, the official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for SurrealDB and SurrealDB Cloud.
King’s Entrepreneurship Lab (King’s E-Lab) and Founders at the University of Cambridge have revealed the 24 startups that will join King’s College’s first-ever incubator programme designed to turn research-backed ideas from University of Cambridge students and alumni into investable companies.
London FinTech Summit, part of Fintech Week London, has announced strategic partnerships with Grow London (London & Partners), the London Stock Exchange, and The Global City – three of the most influential institutions driving London’s financial and business leadership. The partnerships position the newly launched Summit as a key moment for the UK’s FinTech sector and a powerful platform for global engagement.
Four in five (81%) UK CISOs believe DeepSeek – the China-based AI chatbot raising global security concerns due to its data handling practices and vulnerability to misuse – must be urgently regulated by the UK Government before it sparks a full-scale national cyber crisis, according to Absolute Security’s UK Resilience Risk Index Report.
A new type of technology is being trialled on the Tonbridge to Hastings railway line to help keep trains running in hotter weather, and more reliable journeys for passengers and freight customers.
New research by Ipsos and American Express Global Business Travel explores the key strategies of high-performing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), offering insights into the characteristics that differentiate the strongest-growing companies.
Xero has published new independent research revealing UK small businesses are missing out on the benefits of celebrating key achievements. The research showed that milestones often go unrecognised with only 43% of small businesses believing that it’s important to acknowledge wins, while two fifths (40%) admit they never celebrate, citing they’d never thought about doing so (64%).
StartUpNV, a nonprofit statewide incubator and accelerator for Nevada-based startups, is again sponsoring the Las Vegas edition of Startup Week, Wednesday, 17-20th September.
