Against a backdrop of artificial intelligence (AI) proliferation; the creator-fication of news; ad-based streaming; personalised, digital-first ecosystems; and the decline in traditional news viewership, our industry has displayed a remarkable capacity to coalesce around shared, foundational values – in a manner we have not seen for some time.

In the Chartered Institute of Journalists' (CIOJ) 2025 Spring Issue of The Journal, I reported on a meeting held in late 2024 by the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, in Westminster.

Uganda’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s greylist is a case study in the importance of national anti-money laundering (AML) frameworks, and of the economic exile that ensues if they’re faulty.

Buoyed by a reign-defining speech to Congress on 28 April 2026, King Charles III returned from the US to the UK for the State Opening of Parliament. The King’s Speech, read to the Lords Chamber on 13 May, set out the programme of legislation the government intends to pursue in the forthcoming session.

The sci-fi image of the future handed down to us by Hollywood has invariably been one in which robots perform feats of physicality for humans. From Robocop to WALL-E, tomorrow is a story of hardware replacing biology — making humans safer and their lives more comfortable.

Journalism evidently needs its own standardised, industry-wide response to the risk of AI-induced plagiarism and misinformation.

The European Quantum Act is a legislative initiative due to be launched during the second quarter of 2026. It is designed to establish the EU as a global leader in quantum technology. The Act looks to coordinate research, boost industrial capacity for quantum technologies, and secure new supply chains. Crucially, some of the key commercial applications of this research will find a home in Europe’s financial sector.

As the global economy flexes to the new realities of Industry 4.0 — blending physical, digital, and biological systems through artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), robotics, and biotechnology — another critical infrastructure has emerged as a target for combatants: cloud data centres. These sprawling facilities prop up computing power, storage, and application hosting for much of the developed world.

Few scenarios betray the intimacy between geopolitics and oil prices like unrest in the Middle East.

On 10th March 2026, the public consultation on the BBC’s charter renewal closes. The charter, due to expire in December 2027 – with Labour still in office – will be shaped by the responses. Amidst waning public support for the BBC, this is a consequential moment for all those who care about our national broadcaster’s future.

On 3 March 2026 leaders of the UK media industry came together for a roundtable to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) can be wielded safely and transparently by journalists. The roundtable, convened by the Chartered Institute of Journalists (CIoJs), took place this week and explored the CIoJ’s proposal of a Kitemark, which would be given to indicate for audiences if and how a piece of journalism had used AI.

It is estimated that one third to a half of North Korea’s budget comes from cyberfraud and extortion. Most of these crimes are aimed at the financial services industry, including banks, crypto exchanges, and payments providers.

The SaaS-pocalypse is driven by concerns that agentic AI will bypass software products – sounding the death knell for tech providers unable to adapt.

On 2 February 2026, SpaceX acquired xAI. The former, Elon Musk’s leading aerospace manufacturing venture, and the latter, his company behind the divisive AI chatbot Grok, make good bedfellows. Not only does this consolidation of the Muskverse create the world's most valuable private company ($1.25 trillion), it will support new opportunities for integrating AI capabilities with space hardware.

According to a new report by the charity Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA), one in six UK women have been affected by economic abuse in the last 12 months. Encompassing the restriction, sabotage, or exploitation of victims’ economic resources, this kind of abuse is most often directed at women by their partners.

You may or may not have come across this principle before, but the chances are you’re a victim of it. Human fracking describes the way in which Big Tech companies treat our attention spans: as a resource, to be mined and monetised. So, what does human fracking look like in the context of financial services, and how do digital banking apps and investment platforms can gamify user experiences to drive engagement and product sales?

With concerns around AI’s environmental impact mounting – as tech firms remain guarded over the data – it is time to ask whether this technology will hinder or help the economy’s progress toward decarbonisation. In this instalment of Finextra’s Explainer series, we weigh up the potential positive and negative impacts of AI on the climate.

As the wave of digitisation washes across the globe, open source software proliferates, and the sheer value of data continues climbing, cyberattacks are becoming one of the biggest threats to financial stability. In the past 12 months, consumers, financial institutions (FIs), and entire industries fell victim to massive cyberattacks by highly sophisticated criminal rings and technologies. With 2025 drawing to a close, I look back at the most impactful cybersecurity breaches o

With the advantage of hindsight, the financial landscape of 2025 can be characterised by the enforcement of transformative payment regulations, the rise in support for stablecoins, and the moment the rubber hit the road for artificial intelligence (AI). As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the financial news topics that were discussed most keenly, and the transformational fintech stories that underpinned them.

In the last year, tech giants like Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have been taking on tens of billions in debt to finance their artificial intelligence (AI) projects and data centres. The key supplier of these firms is Nvidia, the most valuable company on the planet, which designs and manufactures the graphics processing units (GPUs) and chips needed to power AI models.