Analyst believes offering from US bank ‘will blow the competition out of the water’The US bank Chase has launched its first current account in the UK, prompting one analyst to say it “will blow the competition out of the water”.Offering 1% cashback on …
Grant Shapps will do ‘whatever it takes’ to fix lorry driver shortage
Issuing of short-term skilled worker visas not ruled out amid petrol supply concernsThe UK transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said he would “move heaven and earth” to solve the nationwide shortage of truck drivers that threatens fuel supplies at some p…
‘Eerie silence’ as Evergrande misses payment deadline
As debt-laden Chinese property giant enters 30-day grace period, officials look to limit unrest and job lossesThe embattled Chinese property developer Evergrande is inching closer to the potential default that investors fear, after missing an interest …
El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender is pure folly
Cryptocurrencies are a baffling entity but adopting it as legal tender is the strangest, most worrying aspect of allEl Salvador this month became the first country to adopt a cryptocurrency – in this case, bitcoin – as legal tender. I say the first, be…
Banks must treat victims of scams more fairly, says UK complaints body
Number of people asking ombudsman for help rose by 66% between April to end of JuneBanks need to do more to treat people fairly when they are the victim of scams, according to the UK financial sector’s official complaints body, which is finding in the …
Undisclosed private companies analysing facial data from NHS app
Fresh privacy concerns raised after NHS refuses to reveal firms used for ID verification process Undisclosed companies are analysing facial data collected by the NHS app, which is used by more than 16 million English citizens, prompting fresh concern a…
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Why Deliveries Are So Slow
Americans are habitually unattuned to the massive and profoundly human apparatus that brings us basically everything in our lives. Much of the country’s pandemic response has treated us as somehow separate from the rest of the world and the challenges …
Tech Firms’ Nightmare: Vanishing Green Cards
Thousands of green cards are about to go to waste, leaving Google, Microsoft and other tech companies fuming — and pushing the Biden administration to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Axios: Tech workers have waited years for green cards that will gran…
BP rations petrol and diesel deliveries to its service stations
Oil giant says HGV driver shortage is disrupting supplies, with about 10% of forecourts running out of some fuelsBP is rationing deliveries of petrol and diesel to its UK network of 1,200 service stations, as the oil giant became the latest firm to war…