The Nobel Sustainable Trust along with Sustainable Technology Investors Ltd (STIL) have created a venture fund aiming to tap this new source of funding, which, in turn, is aimed at fighting the effects of climate change. Whoever said green technology… Read More ›
Britain
Dec 4 meeting of Jean Claude Junker with British Prime Minister Theresa May likely to set the pace & tone for further negotiations
With Theresa May’s eroding leadership back home, she is hard pressed to portray that enough ground has been covered to label them as sufficient progress. The Brexit negotiations, one of the most complex since WW2, will determine Britain’s economic future…. Read More ›
Looks like Britain is in a hurry to lose its financial clout
Cultivated and cultured for decades, Britain has since long been a center for finance for the world over. If its nonchalant unpreparedness that it has demonstrated in the Brexit negotiations so far is of any clue, it risks losing its… Read More ›
With looming dark clouds on Theressa May’s leadership, the pound takes a more cautious approach
In the backdrop of Brexit negotiations, one of the most complex high stakes negotiations in recent history after WW2, British Prime Minister Theressa May is now facing a challenge to her leadership from her own conservative party midst a lack… Read More ›
Britain to introduce bills to enable it to manage post-Brexit scenarios
While the pro-Brexit camp has welcomed the provisions of the bill, the pro EU camp has warned that Britain may not have the independent capacity to strike new trade deals with other nations. On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s… Read More ›
London’s direct rule over Northern Ireland fraught with significant risks
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s minority government, depends on Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to pass legislation in Parliament. In a significant development, for the first time in a decade, the British government is set to impose a budget… Read More ›
Britain’s budget surplus promise is unrealistic: Institute of Fiscal Studies
Here’s what the Institute of Fiscal Studies, leading think tank in Britain, has to say on Britain’s post Brexit finances. On Monday, a think tank stated, the noble aims of British finance minister Philip Hammond to have a budget surplus… Read More ›
EU extends helping hands to May firming her position of leadership in the British government
Here is how EU’s leaders plan on breaking the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations. Leaders from the European Union may extend an olive branch to British Prime Minister Theresa May in the deadlocked Brexit negotiations next week. The move could… Read More ›
Boeing had financed Britain’s Monarch Airlines in 2016: Financial Times
The funds were channeled through Monarch’s offshore holding company, Petrol Jersey in several tranches. On Monday, as per a report by the Financial Times, Boeing Co had sunk in $130 million (100 million pounds) into Britain’s now collapsed Monarch Airlines…. Read More ›
British Airlines Monarch files for Administration leaving behind 110,000 customers overseas
The airlines has canceled all future bookings. The British government is making efforts at bring back all of Monarch’s stranded passengers back to the UK. On Monday, in a development that has prompted what is slated to be Britain’s biggest… Read More ›