UK stablecoin market is lagging behind America: We must catch up
Huge opportunity for UK stablecoin firms – in capturing market share and helping define the Govt’s regulatory framework The UK has spent 2025.
Blockchain
Crypto
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Culture
History
Blue plaque for Birmingham Town Hall – site of Dickens’ first reading of ‘A Christmas Carol’
The celebrated author read for three hours to 2,000 Brummies on a stormy night Birmingham Town Hall has received a prestigious blue plaque.
Birmingham
Politics
£651m into Birmingham’s local services
MP Preet Gill welcomes injection of public cash Birmingham is set to receive £651m in government money to improve local services, it has.
Business News
Warwick
Aerospace firm launches world’s first digital test cell
A Warwick-based aerospace specialist that once maintained engines for the late Queen’s Flight has achieved a world first with the launch of a.
Business News
Finance
Bank of England cuts base rate to 3.75%
‘We’ve passed the recent peak in inflation’ – Bank of England boss Borrowers today welcomed the Bank of England’s move to cut interest.
Birmingham
Culture
People
Sport
Birmingham young people to lead three new community projects thanks to Commonwealth Games legacy funding
£12,000 from United By 2022 Young Brummies are set to launch three new community initiatives after receiving £12,000 from United By 2022, the.
Finance
Viewpoint
What next for the Yen?
The Yen carry trade is teetering, so where do things go from here? While most eyes are on Europe and the United States.
AI
Birmingham
Crypto
Tech
Tech firm taps crypto payments trailblazer to lead AI innovation drive from the regions
Birmingham-based tech boffins Greater Things have handed the keys to their next chapter to fintech and crypto payments pioneer Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, appointing.
Birmingham
Black Country
Jobs
Ray of hope despite jobless levels in West Midlands being worst in UK behind London
SPR is bucking the bleak jobs market trend The unemployment rate for the West Midlands is the highest in the UK outside of.
Culture
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World Affairs
After years of hate marches, we are now seeing a globalised intifada
Anger on other conflicts tends to stay within the contextual bounds of decency Vladimir Putin’s wrong-headed assault on Ukraine has been grinding on.