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Leak Shows the iPhone 8 Is All Screen and No Home Button

More power to the display. Much of the recent talk surrounding the iPhone 8 has focussed on its hardware. Now, courtesy of a new leak, we can go back to speculating its design. The latest image — via the web’s resident handset leaker Evan Blass — indicates Apple’s...

Standard Life First-half Operating Profit up 6 Percent Ahead of Aberdeen Merger

LONDON (Reuters) – Worries about outflows from Standard Life’s flagship multi-asset strategy hit its shares on Tuesday, ahead of an 11 billion pound ($14.4 billion) merger with Aberdeen Asset Management to form Britain’s largest active manager. The merger will create a...

Leeds Building Society Reports Record Start to 2017

Leeds Building Society has reported record results for the first half of 2017, despite the “political and economic uncertainty.” The UK’s fifth largest Society saw pre-tax profit rise to £63.2m, which is a 9% increase on the £58m achieved during the...

5 Ways HR Professionals Can Use Technology to Improve Workplace Productivity

Effective use of technology is critical to the success of any business. Whether in production, sales or administration, technology helps businesses to run more smoothly. It also enables employees to leverage their time and ability, to make more informed decisions,...

British Fintech Start-up Neyber Secures £21m in Funding

What do a number of thousand cops, two former Goldman Sachs executives and an Indian funding firm have in widespread? They all are central gamers in a £21m fundraising set to be introduced this week by a British fintech start-up, which...

British Gas to Increase Electricity Prices by 12.5% Next Month

For a typical household on dual fuel, the average annual bill will increase by 7.3 per cent or £76 British Gas has announced that it will next month ramp up the price of electricity, prompting calls for greater regulation amid fears that...

How to Prioritise Customer Experience in Affordability Assessments

There are millions of people in the UK struggling to pay their bills, according to the Debt Advisory Centre.  It says that nine million adults think they owe too much money and four and a half million people find it...

Deutsche Bank Is Going to Keep a Lot of People in London, Come What May

German banking giant Deutsche Bank might have said it’s likely to move hundreds of billions of dollars in assets out of London due to Brexit, but it’s still keeping a pretty big presence in the U.K. capital. Deutsche has secured a...

Savers ‘Rush’ to Open Cash Lifetime Isas

As many as 28,000 savers have opened Lifetime Isas with the only provider offering a cash version of the product. The Skipton Building Society said there had been a high level of interest in the six weeks since it was launched...

Bitcoin Will Likely Split Into 2 Separate Currencies

Bitcoin will likely split into two separate currencies on Tuesday, and it’s all thanks to bitcoin cash. For years, bitcoin power brokers have been squabbling over the structure of the blockchain network that underpins the red-hot currency. On one side of this war, there...