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Uganda's off the FATF’s greylist. What now?
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.
The King’s Speech 2026: A lukewarm response from the financial services sector
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.
AI versus CAPTCHA: The silent war training robots to think
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.
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.
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
In an ever-evolving world of technology, media has reasserted its commitment to accuracy
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.
SLAPP reform deterred by legal sector lobbying
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.
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.
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