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裁断されたバンクシーの絵画が再び競売に。裁断後の価値は６倍？
2018年10月にに起きた覆面アーティスト、バンクシーによる絵画シュレッダー騒動だが、その渦中の作品である「Girl with Balloon」（少女と風船）」が「Love is in the Bin（愛はごみ箱の中に）」に改題され、再びオークションにかけられることになったそうだ。当時は約100万ポンド（約1億5000万円）で落札された直後に裁断されたことで話題となったが、競売大手サザビーズは、前回の落札額の6倍となる最大600万ポンド（約9億円）の値がつくのではないかと推測しているとのこと（CNN…
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 …
National insurance hike to hit NHS and care staff with £900m tax bill
Exclusive: Tax rise will inflict ‘terrible’ financial toll on health and social care workers, analysis findsBoris Johnson’s national insurance hike to fund health and social care will hit NHS and care workers with a £900m tax bill, the Guardian can rev…
Vyne raises $15.5M seed round to grow its merchant-focused open banking solutions
Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. On the heels of open banking startup TrueLayer hitting a $1 billion valuation in its latest round after seeing strong traction for its services, today another open banking […]
The economy has shafted millennials: now it wants their offspring too | Joel Golby
Yes, we know you can’t afford to have children. But if the economy tanks because of the low birthrate, you’ll be to blameEveryone likes babies, don’t they, with their little tiny toes and the fact that they don’t do anything and are constantly doing th…
Lloyds froze bank account of charity that helps poor students
Closure was discovered when group tried to make a payment to cover student’s university accommodationWe run a charity that awards scholarships to underprivileged medical students in Zimbabwe. When I tried to make a payment to cover a student’s universi…
TikTokers Are Trading Stocks By Copying What Members of Congress Do
TikTok users are watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress to help them determine which stocks to invest in. NPR reports: Among a certain community of individual investors on TikTok, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading disclo…
The Fed Is Evaluating Whether To Launch a Digital Currency and In What Form
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Federal Reserve is pushing ahead with its study into whether to implement its own digital currency and will be releasing a paper on the issue shortly, Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday. No decision…
Robinhood muscles deeper into Coinbase’s territory with new crypto wallet feature
The fervor around Dogecoin delivered big revenues for stock-trading app Robinhood, and the company announced Wednesday that it’s wandering deeper down the crypto rabbit hole, sharing that it will soon begin testing crypto wallets for its users. The crypto wallets, which Robinhood says it will begin rolling out next month over time to users on […]