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A quarterly magazine written for the members of LIBF looking at financial services, economics, fintech, financial advice, trade finance, regulation and careers with guest columns from leading commentators.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · Feb 3
The February 2025 issue of "Financial World" focuses on fintech: financialworld.libf.ac.uk

Will crypto trump the CBDC?

What will agentic AI mean for financial services?

What does your smartphone know about you and who does it tell?

#AI #ML #bigtech #tech #data #financialservices #regulation
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 11h
Silicon Valley Has China Envy, and That Reveals a Lot About America www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...

#china #tariffs #supplychain #trade #tradewar #innovation #manufacturing #employment #growth #productivity #US #tech #bigtech
Silicon Valley Has China Envy, and That Reveals a Lot About America
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 11h
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

#automation #amazon #employment #bigtech #tech #AI #robots #supplychain
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 12h
Real living wage to rise by almost 7% in boost for low-paid UK workers

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#LivingWage #employment #pay
Real living wage to rise by almost 7% in boost for low-paid UK workers
Hourly rate to increase in April by 95p to £14.80 in London and by 85p to £13.45 for the rest of the country
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 12h
Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy $2.5 billion, report says

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#JLR #cybersecurity #tech #data #manufacturing #employment #jobs #growth #investment #productivity
Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy $2.5 billion, report says
LONDON (Reuters) -The August hack of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), owned by India's Tata Motors, cost the British economy 1.9 billion pounds ($2.55 billion) and affected over 5,000 organisations in the cou...
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 12h
Barclays increases car finance provision but announces £500m share buyback

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#barclays #CarFinance #banks #financialservices #regulation #equities #capital #ShareBuyBack
Barclays increases car finance provision but announces £500m share buyback
The bank has raised the amount it is setting aside to cover costs relating to the car finance scandal to £325m but also raised its guidance for the year.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 12h
UK inflation holds unexpectedly at 3.8% in September

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#inflation #interestrates #food #supplychain #trade #CostOfLiving
UK inflation holds unexpectedly at 3.8% in September
Economists had widely predicted inflation would reach a peak of 4% in September before starting to fall.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 2d
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future', Bank of England chief says

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#brexit #BoE #trade #supplychain #tariffs #growth #investment #UK #productivity
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future', Bank of England chief says
The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 2d
Major pension funds and insurers launch new partnership to help drive growth

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#growth #investment #innovation #capital #savings #productivity
Major pension funds and insurers launch new partnership to help drive growth
The Sterling 20 will be established at the Regional Investment Summit in Birmingham on Tuesday.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 2d
China's economic growth slows amid sputtering domestic demand

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#china #exports #supplychain #US #trade #tradewar #supplychain
China's economic growth slows amid sputtering domestic demand
China's economic growth slipped below five percent in the third quarter of 2025, official data showed Monday, the slowest pace in a year in the face of trade headwinds and a continued domestic consume...
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 2d
Consumer belt-tightening takes toll on UK firms, report reveals

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#spending #retail #interestrates #inflation #deflation #pay #costoflivingcrisis #growth #investment
Consumer belt-tightening takes toll on UK firms, report reveals
The report found warnings among listed retailers hit their highest level for nearly two years and more than half cited falling consumer confidence.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 2d
Average UK house asking price rises over £1,000 in October

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#housing #mortgage #credit #interestrates
Average UK house asking price rises over £1,000 in October
Average new seller asking prices hit £371,422 this month, says Rightmove.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 5d
AI provides the wrong financial advice half the time

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#FinancialAdvice #AI #GenAI #regulation #financialservices #savings #investment #growth
AI provides the wrong financial advice half the time
AI only gets advice correct half the time leaving Brits at risk of making damaging errors, according to research by financial education specialists Investing Insiders.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 5d
BBVA fails in €17bn takeover battle for smaller Spanish rival Sabadell

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#BBVA #Sabadell #banks #merger #financialservices #regulation #EU
BBVA fails in €17bn takeover battle for smaller Spanish rival Sabadell
The bid only convinced shareholders representing 25.47% of Sabadell voting rights. That was far short of the 50% BBVA needed for the deal to pass outright.View on euronews
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 5d
EU plans support for countries affected by carbon border levy

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#EU #CBAM #CarbonTax #ESG #netzero #sustainability #trade #supplychain
EU plans support for countries affected by carbon border levy
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will offer development funding to countries affected by the bloc's carbon border tariff, the European Commission said on Thursday, as it attempts
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d
China took a page out of the US export control playbook with its latest move on rare earths. Europe may join the game of copycat with tech transfer rules.
Xi and Trump Steal Each Other's Tactics to Gain Trade War Edge
Hi, this is Allen Wan in Shanghai.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5d
Yet another lie about immigration from the Telegraph.

Yet another correction.

I explained why the Centre for Policy Studies numbers were nonsense 6 months ago, and the CPS has admitted I was right. Didn't stop the Telegraph from printing the lie.

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An article “Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants” /”We will stop this scam on the British people” (Sept, 21) stated the cost of 800,000 “Boriswave” migrants gaining ILR will be at least £234 billion during their lifetimes. This figure was from a third party organisation which has confirmed it is disputed and will be updated. We are happy to correct the record.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 5d
Lloyd's Register Unveils First Comprehensive Roadmap for Nuclear-Powered Commercial Shipping

url:https://gcaptain.com/lloyds-register-unveils-first-comprehensive-roadmap-for-nuclear-powered-commercial-shipping/

#netzero #ESG #sustainability #shipping #trade #nuclearPower #trade #supplychain
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 5d
'Outraged' Trump Tells Nations to 'Vote No' on Shipping's Carbon Tax at IMO

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#InternationalMaritimeOrganization #IMO #shipping #freight
#green #netzero #ESG #sustainability #regulation #carbon #trade #supplychain
'Outraged' Trump Tells Nations to 'Vote No' on Shipping's Carbon Tax at IMO
President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to nations supporting a global carbon tax on shipping, threatening economic retaliation as the International Maritime Organization votes on its Net-Ze...
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 5d
Analysis-AI boom rippling across to Britain's pound, Swedish crown

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#GenAI #investment #growth #interestrates #FDI #tech #bigtech
Analysis-AI boom rippling across to Britain's pound, Swedish crown
LONDON (Reuters) -The boom in investment in artificial intelligence is starting to be felt for the first time in currency markets across Europe, and analysts reckon the Swedish crown and sterling stan...
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 5d
Reeves launches 'one-stop shop' to fast track investment in the UK

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#investment #equities #OfficeForInvestment #growth #productivity #innovation #capital #regulation
Reeves launches 'one-stop shop' to fast track investment in the UK
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the launch of the Office for Investment: Financial Services during her visit to Washington for the annual IMF meetings.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d
A shipment of Russian LNG arrived at a Chinese terminal for the first time since the UK sanctioned the port facility, underscoring Beijing’s appetite for Moscow’s energy supplies despite Western efforts to curb such trade
China Takes Blacklisted Russian LNG in Defiance of UK Sanctions
A shipment of Russian liquefied natural gas arrived at a Chinese terminal for the first time since the UK sanctioned the port facility, underscoring Beijing’s appetite for Moscow’s energy supplies despite Western efforts to curb such trade.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 5d
BOJ to keep raising rates if economy moves in line with forecasts, deputy governor says reut.rs/4o0eI92
BOJ to keep raising rates if economy moves in line with forecasts, deputy governor says
The Bank of Japan will continue raising interest rates if economic and price developments move in line with its forecasts, BOJ Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said on Friday.
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 6d
China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

#china #RareEarths #sustainability #netzero #ESG #renewables #tradewar #trade #supplychain
China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game
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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 6d
Prospects Dim for Denmark’s Renewable Energy Star www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

#energy #denmark #renewables #supplychain #trade #tradewar #investment #growth
Prospects Dim for Denmark’s Renewable Energy Star
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d
Rare earths tensions rise as US and China trade barbs reut.rs/4hmlYK0
Rare earths tensions rise as US and China trade barbs
Chinese state media on Thursday issued a seven-point rebuttal to U.S. calls for Beijing to wind back its rare earth controls, as both sides struggle to move beyond a volley of barbs and accusations of blindsiding the other.
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