SEC faces questions after cyber breach
Getty Images SEC Chair Jay Clayton during a confirmation hearing this spring A top US financial regulator faces questions about its preparation for cyber attacks, after disclosing a breach of a key database of company filings. The Securities and Exchange Commission said a software vulnerability allowed access to private information and may have led to […]
Tata Steel wants roadmap to make industry greener
Tata says guidance is needed to safeguard thousands of jobs Tata Steel says it needs a route map from the UK government before it decides how it will make steel in the future. There are fears the steel industry, as the biggest single emitter of CO2 in the UK, might not fit into a new […]
Yoon’s arrest list included own party leader
Getty Images Yoon Suk Yeol has not spoken publicly since revoking martial law early on Wednesday South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered the arrest of his own ruling party’s leader Han Dong-hoon when he declared martial law on Tuesday night. The arrest list also included the leader of the main opposition party, Lee Jae-myung, […]
NFU elects first female president
Minette Batters says the UK must not ‘open the flood gates’ to cheap food from other parts of the world The first female president of the National Farmers Union has warned against “crashing out” of the EU without a deal. Minette Batters, a beef farmer from Wiltshire, is the first woman to lead the NFU […]
The entrepreneurs celebrating their past failures
BBC Vithushan Namasivayasivam is now the boss of a successful training firm Success in business is rightfully acclaimed, but should failure also be celebrated? When Vithushan Namasivayasivam was previously working as a software engineer for one of the main global music streamers he made a huge mistake. It was the kind of error that you […]
Businesses reflect on 2021 as restrictions ease
BBC Diana Kaye said the idea her business could have collapsed was frightening With most of England’s Covid-19 restrictions being legally lifted on Monday, the BBC followed a number of business owners during 2021 to see how the pandemic had affected their lives. Florist Diana Kaye has shops in Newcastle, Yarm and Gilling West, North […]
South Korea’s President Yoon backs out of plan to visit parliament amid chaos
Why PPP might not want Yoon impeachedpublished at 05:16 Greenwich Mean Time 05:16 GMT Laura Bickerin Seoul Han says he’s found new information about the night when martial law was declared, and there is evidence that President Yoon was going to put politicians in a detention centre. Yoon remains a risk to the public safety […]
Exam failure who became a multi-millionaire hotelier
Robin Hutson Robin Hutson has had an illustrious career in the hotel industry The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Robin Hutson, founder and chief executive of UK hotel business Home Grown Hotels. Robin Hutson’s life would probably have been far less successful […]
US weighs plans to curb Chinese investment
Reuters Are Chinese investors helping the US or threatening it? Washington is worried about Chinese investment in the US, yet is the rest of America? You might expect Leo Chan to be pessimistic about the future of Ohio, a state in the American Midwest that has seen its former manufacturing might gutted by automation, foreign […]
What is Revolut?
SOPA Images British financial technology company Revolut has been in the news frequently in recent months. The firm, which provides mobile app-based current accounts as an alternative to physical banks, has been referred by some as a “tech super star”. Why is Revolut so controversial? What is Revolut? Revolut offers a range of digital banking […]