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A Quantum Act: Europe as the world's tech hub
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.
How safe are data centres in times of war?
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.
How does geopolitics impact oil price discovery?
Few scenarios betray the intimacy between geopolitics and oil prices like unrest in the Middle East.
North Korea: The cybercrime state
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.
Sustainability
Sustainable securities: The promise and the pitfalls
In recent years the shores of sustainable finance have been battered by the choppy waters of geopolitics. Despite a surge in growth, public interest, and market momentum between 2020 and 2022 (a result of progressive policy, disclosure frameworks, and an explosion in environmental, social and governance [ESG] investment products) sustainable finance feels as though it is slowing. From 2022 onwards the energy crisis drove international investment in fossil fuels, and ESG retre
Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG, part 2
Blackrock’s former sustainable investing chief, Tariq Fancy, has made nine key claims against the environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Women’s Equality Day: Working toward gender parity in financial services
It is Women’s Equality Day – and over two years since the publication of the UK government’s last mandatory gender pay gap report, due to co
The fight for afforestation: Fixing finance from the ground up
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest just hit its highest level in over 15 years, despite Brazil – along with 100 other world leaders – pr
Finalist in the Chartered Institute of Journalists' Young Journalist of the Year Awards, 2025
I have been shortlisted in the Young Journalist of the Year 2025 awards
2024 wrapped: The best music of the year
This year has been an inspiring year for music. Here are the songs, albums, and EPs, that had the greatest impact in 2024.
Liam Payne’s legacy: Ban under-18s boybands
In the wake of ex-One Direction member, Liam Payne’s tragic death on 16 October 2024, calls are mounting for better safeguards for artists.
Revisiting Mind Games: A commemoration of Lennon’s 84th Birthday
The 9th October would have marked John Lennon’s 84th birthday. It has been commemorated by the release of a series of Mind Games re-mixes.
Music
Journalism needs an industry-wide response to AI
Journalism evidently needs its own standardised, industry-wide response to the risk of AI-induced plagiarism and misinformation.
Let this be the last BBC charter renewal
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.
Media industry leaders convene to discuss the safe and transparent use of AI
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.
CIoJ says AI 'kitemark' would support readers' confidence
I am proud to have worked alongside the Chartered Institute of Journalists' council to formulate an industry announcement pushing for the use of a ‘kitemark’ to signify when AI has been used by journalists.
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