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Energy companies evacuate staff and shut sites as Texas braces for 130mph Hurricane Harvey

By Gaurav Sharma

Gasoline prices respond to possible disruption as refineries, ports and exploration sites are closed with "life-threatening" storm in sight.

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong found guilty of corruption, sentenced to 5 years in prison

Lee was accused of bribery in a scandal which also saw the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, the former president of South Korea.

By Immanuel Jotham

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London's house prices slowdown could soon be a thing of the past

Hometrack survey shows market is picking up pace again as house prices in the capital rose 2.8% last month.

By Dan Cancian

BHS liquidator and Philip Green's Arcadia avoid High Court battle

Arcadia reaches multimillion deal on contentious back-dated charge raised by liquidator, report suggests.

By Staff Reporter

Insurer Aviva to sell its stake in Italian joint venture

The venture Avipop Assicurazioni would be sold to the insurer's Italian partner Banco BPM.

By Gaurav Sharma

John McAfee's cyber firm to boost bitcoin mining operation with new $2.4m investment

MGT has reportedly mined 1,000 bitcoins since September 2016.

By Jason Murdock

UK Housing: Most affordable places for first-time buyers, which has increased 10% since 2015

Britons underestimating cost of first home by a quarter, survey says

First-time buyers are spending £44,240 more than they budget on their first property, according to Zoopla.

By Karthick Arvinth

Indian mining behemoth Adani cleared in financial fraud investigation

Adani Group had been accused of illegal siphoning money out of the country to offshore tax havens.

By Karthick Arvinth

China's President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia's king Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

'Sovereign Bedfellows'? China and Saudi Arabia join coffers for $20bn investment fund

Details of the unique fund emerge as Riyadh attempts to overtake Moscow as the leading supplier of crude oil to Beijing.

By Staff Reporter

Visa UK Consumer Spending Index: Hotels, restaurants and bars is strongest performing sector in July

UK economy remains on track thanks to service sector growth

Second GDP estimate confirms UK economy grew 0.3% in the second quarter yet remains among the slowest G7 economies.

By Dan Cancian

Window dressing on gender diversity persists at City firms despite recent progress, says FinnCap CEO

Sam Smith, the only female CEO of a City brokerage firm, says gender equality in trading rooms and boardrooms has a...

By Gaurav Sharma

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FEATURES & INSIGHT

'Big Tech', not fintech, causing greatest disruption to traditional finance

By Gaurav Sharma

Follow the myth of millennial marketing at your own peril

By Iqbal Wahhab

Indebted USA: Taxpayers' debt per American family is worryingly close to $1m

By Iris Mack

EXECUTIVE FOCUS

Not your average default swap: Ex-England star Andy Goode on his switch from rugby to currency trading

By Dan Cancian

'AIM-ing' high: Why FinnCap CEO Sam Smith is upbeat on UK Plc

By Gaurav Sharma

London's legal market will thrive after Brexit, says Baker McKenzie's Chairman Emeritus

By Gaurav Sharma

Era of $100 oil price was an aberration says BP's Bob Dudley

By Gaurav Sharma

New kids on Wall Street: How Mitchell Ng and his Thessalus Capital crew target healthy returns

By Gaurav Sharma

FinTech

PSD2's long shadow casts doubt over US fintech security

By Seth Ruden, Snr

DFINITY announces 'infinite blockchain computer'

By Ian Allison

How can Instagram help hedge funds make better trades?

By Ian Allison

Blockchain 'Atomic Ledger' experiment records 20 million timestamped stock trades

By Ian Allison

African fintech providers should focus more on SMEs

By Tunde Kehinde

Coinsilium to launch Terrastream for Gibraltar's blockchain regulatory framework

By Ian Allison

Ethereum identity system uPort working with Brazil's Ministry of Planning

By Ian Allison