UK smart-charge rules set for 2025
The Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021 were laid before the UK Parliament in 2021 and took effect on 30 June 2022. The Office for Product Safety and Standards...
Regulation
Details antitrust blocks, corporate registry overhauls, infrastructure rulings, labor directives, and pay benchmarks.
EU GDPR: 8 Core Principles for Business
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted on 14 April 2016 by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. It came into force on 24 May...
UK challenger banks: growth, regulation, and profitability
After the 2008 financial crisis, a wave of app-only banks set out to prove that a smartphone could replace a branch. They grew fast, raised billions, and forced incumbents to...
What Causes Power Failures in the UK?
On 9 August 2019, a lightning strike hit a transmission circuit near Eaton Socon. Within seconds, 1.1 GW of embedded generation disconnected from the grid. System frequency fell to 48.8...
TSB Bank IT migration failure: what happened and the cost
Over the weekend of 21-22 April 2018, TSB Bank tried to move its data from the legacy Lloyds Banking Group systems it had relied on since the 2013 split to...
Metro Bank's Fall to Last Place in UK Bank League Tables
Metro Bank, founded in 2010 as the first new high-street bank in the UK in over a century, fell to the bottom of the Competition and Markets Authority's service quality...
Tesco Bank Fined £16.4M for 2016 Cyber Lapses
On 1 October 2018 the Financial Conduct Authority fined Tesco Bank £16.4 million for failures that allowed a cyber attack in November 2016. Over 48 hours, attackers stole £2.26 million...
The Furman Review: How the UK Plans to Tame Big Tech
The Digital Competition Expert Panel, chaired by former Obama economist Jason Furman, delivered its final report on 13 March 2019. The UK government accepted the recommendations in principle in March...
Sainsbury's CEO Mike Coupe and the Failed Asda Merger
On 25 April 2019, the UK Competition and Markets Authority formally blocked the proposed merger between J Sainsbury plc and Asda Group Ltd. Both companies walked away the same day....
Spear's 500: Wealth Shift for New Gen
In 2018, Spear's Magazine published its annual Spear's 500 index and report, an assessment of the wealth management, legal and advisory sectors for affluent individuals. The report identified four forces...
Essay mills face bans in 18+ countries
In the early 2020s, governments in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand did something they had avoided for decades: they made it a criminal offense to run an essay mill....
California: 38 AV incidents, 16 states regulate testing
Public-road testing of self-driving technology began in earnest in the mid 2010s, but the landscape shifted decisively on March 18, 2018. That night in Tempe, Arizona, a test car from...
