Visa, Worldwide FIFA Women’s Football Partner, has announced a first-ever extension of the coveted Visa Player of the Match athlete award to support women-owned small businesses (WSMB) with $500,000 in total grant funding across the 64 matches and potentially 32 qualifying countries. “Visa understands equity requires action and resources. We’re excited to use the world’s […]
Rail travel is far more carbon efficient than previously thought, according to a rail industry group that has commissioned a new tool for calculating emissions. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), the association of train companies and National Rail that works to coordinate Britain’s railways, commissioned the development of the tool so that they could measure […]
The West Midlands has cemented its reputation as a global investment hotspot, emerging as the UK’s top regional location for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) outside London. The region has recorded the highest annual growth rate of all UK locations. According to official data from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), 181 FDI projects […]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt should cut companies’ national insurance contributions and make the temporary business investment tax relief permanent, an influential think tank has argued in a radical blueprint to overhaul the UK’s tax regime. Employers’ should be subjected to a 12.8 per cent national insurance levy, one percentage point lower […]
Liberis, a leading global embedded finance platform, is reinforcing their commitment to responsible and sustainable investment practices by developing Cashback for Green, responding to the growing appetite from their SME customers for green funding solutions. With 91% of SMEs agreeing it is important to be sustainable, and 42% of this group struggling to do so from a […]
tech entrepreneurs Although some have questioned the attractiveness of the UK, particularly London, as a destination for technology businesses, a poll conducted last week among foreign technology entrepreneurs and trade delegations by the law firm Kingsley Napley shows the UK’s appeal is still strong. At an event held in association with Global Tech Connect, an […]
Oracle Red Bull Racing, the leading Formula One (F1) team, and its official Team Partner Rokt, a global leader in ecommerce technology, today announced that they are launching a global talent search for female F1 sim racers. The talent scouting initiative, announced at Oracle Red Bull Racing’s International Women in Engineering Day celebration at its […]
A startup that uses soundwaves to move cells in petri dishes has won £10,000 and a year’s membership at tech incubator SETsquared Bristol. Dr Luke Cox’s startup Impulsonics makes growing cells in the lab cheaper, faster and more reliable, by automating processes still done by hand in all but the biggest labs. Impulsonics’ patented technology […]
Zopa, Banked and Smart Pension are among the winners at this year’s Fintech Awards London 2023, an annual celebration of fintech professionals and companies in London. The Awards, organised by recruitment firm Recruit 121, returned for a second year following the success of an inaugural ceremony in 2022. Part of Fintech Week London, the annual […]
Start Up Loans, part of the British Business Bank, today announces Virgin StartUp and BizBritain as national Business Support Partners (BSPs). They two organisations will work with the Start Up Loans programme to deliver funding and support for small businesses across the UK over the next two years. The Start Up Loans scheme delivers finance […]