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Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules
Finance UK

Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules

PISCES, the FCA's new intermittent-trading venue for private company shares, lets firms decide when their stock trades, who can buy it and at what price, betting that founder control can revive a s...

Imogen Fairchild · · 6 min read
A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
Finance UK
A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
· 6 min read
The Bank of England Decides on a Digital Pound This Year, After Telling Banks to Build the Alternative
Finance UK
The Bank of England Decides on a Digital Pound This Year, After Telling Banks to Build the Alternative
· 6 min read
The UK Moved Its Frontier-AI Testers Into the Prime Minister's Office. There Is Still No AI Law for Them to Apply.
Tech UK
The UK Moved Its Frontier-AI Testers Into the Prime Minister's Office. There Is Still No AI Law for Them to Apply.
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The UK Moved Its Frontier-AI Testers Into the Prime Minister's Office. There Is Still No AI Law for Them to Apply.
Tech UK
The UK Moved Its Frontier-AI Testers Into the Prime Minister's Office. There Is Still No AI Law for Them to Apply.
Abolishing the technology department turned AI oversight from a departmental science function into a centre-of-govern...
· 6 min
Quantum Motion's $160m Round Puts UK Quantum to the Test
Tech UK
Quantum Motion's $160m Round Puts UK Quantum to the Test
London startup Quantum Motion says its $160 million Series C can push silicon quantum hardware into ordinary data-cen...
· 3 min
Rightmove's AI Push Grows, but Buyers Still Search the Old Way
Tech UK
Rightmove's AI Push Grows, but Buyers Still Search the Old Way
Rightmove kept its 2026 outlook intact after lifting active AI projects to 43, but less than 0.5 per cent of traffic ...
· 3 min

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AI & ML UK
From 9% To 50%: AISI Cyber Numbers Lift The Resilience Bar For UK Finance
The AI Security Institute's own evaluations show frontier models completing half of apprentice-level offensive-cyber ...
· 5 min
AI & ML UK
The FCA Wants Its Perimeter to Reach the AI Models, Not Just the Firms
Buried in the Mills Review's seven recommendations is the one with teeth — pull AI systems inside the regulatory boun...
· 5 min
AI & ML UK
UK Cyber Authorities Draw a Deployment Line on Agentic Coding Autonomy
NCSC-style guidance is telling firms to reserve full agentic autonomy for low-risk prototypes and tighten oversight t...
· 5 min

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Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules
Finance UK
Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules
PISCES, the FCA's new intermittent-trading venue for private company shares, lets firms decide when their stock trade...
· 6 min
A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
Finance UK
A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
On 2 September the Bank's repo lending stood at £208.7 billion against £643.7 billion of reserves. A year of quantita...
· 6 min
The Bank of England Decides on a Digital Pound This Year, After Telling Banks to Build the Alternative
Finance UK
The Bank of England Decides on a Digital Pound This Year, After Telling Banks to Build the Alternative
The design phase ends in 2026, and the blueprint, the Treasury's joint assessment and the decision on next steps all ...
· 6 min
The FCA Will Judge Firms' Live AI in 2027 Without a Single New AI Rule
Finance UK
The FCA Will Judge Firms' Live AI in 2027 Without a Single New AI Rule
The regulator's second AI Live Testing cohort, from Barclays and Lloyds to UBS and Experian, is running real models i...
· 5 min
Open Banking Won 19 Million Users on Rails the Banks Were Never Paid to Build
Finance UK
Open Banking Won 19 Million Users on Rails the Banks Were Never Paid to Build
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 lets the Treasury extend the same compulsion into savings, pensions and consumer c...
· 6 min
Cash-Access Rules Have Opened 230 Banking Hubs and Owe 120 More. What They Guarantee Is Cash, Not a Bank.
Finance UK
Cash-Access Rules Have Opened 230 Banking Hubs and Owe 120 More. What They Guarantee Is Cash, Not a Bank.
Nearly two years after the FCA's access-to-cash regime took effect, more than 230 shared banking hubs are open agains...
· 5 min
Britain's pension reform can force poor funds to move savers out, but the test and the teeth are still unwritten
Finance UK
Britain's pension reform can force poor funds to move savers out, but the test and the teeth are still unwritten
The Pension Schemes Act 2026 is law and the megafund story dominates, but the sharper lever is the Value for Money fr...
· 5 min
The FCA's Conduct Rules Used to Police Client Money. Now They Reach How You Treat a Colleague.
Finance UK
The FCA's Conduct Rules Used to Police Client Money. Now They Reach How You Treat a Colleague.
From 1 September a single new rule, COCON 1.1.7FR, extends the FCA's conduct code from client money and market behavi...
· 5 min
Basel 3.1 Reaches UK Banks in January 2027 on Terms the US and EU No Longer Share
Finance UK
Basel 3.1 Reaches UK Banks in January 2027 on Terms the US and EU No Longer Share
The Prudential Regulation Authority has finalised its Basel 3.1 rules for a 1 January 2027 start, with the fully load...
· 6 min
Buy Now Pay Later Became Regulated Credit in July, Giving 11 Million UK Users New Protections
Finance UK
Buy Now Pay Later Became Regulated Credit in July, Giving 11 Million UK Users New Protections
The Financial Conduct Authority brought Britain's buy-now-pay-later market under consumer-credit regulation on 15 Jul...
· 6 min
Britain Sets 11 October 2027 for Next-Day Settlement, Moving in Step With the EU and Switzerland
Finance UK
Britain Sets 11 October 2027 for Next-Day Settlement, Moving in Step With the EU and Switzerland
On a single Monday in the autumn of 2027, the UK, the European Union and Switzerland will compress the time it takes ...
· 6 min
UK Mortgage Approvals Rose in June. A Hawkish Bank of England Keeps a Rate Cut Off the Table.
Finance UK
UK Mortgage Approvals Rose in June. A Hawkish Bank of England Keeps a Rate Cut Off the Table.
Net mortgage approvals climbed to 58,200 in June and house prices are still edging up, but with the MPC holding Bank ...
· 4 min

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Can a Machine Actually Trade? — AI, Markets, and the Brutal Honesty of P&L

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The FCA Will Judge Firms' Live AI in 2027 Without a Single New AI Rule
Finance UK
The FCA Will Judge Firms' Live AI in 2027 Without a Single New AI Rule
· 5 min read
Open Banking Won 19 Million Users on Rails the Banks Were Never Paid to Build
Finance UK
Open Banking Won 19 Million Users on Rails the Banks Were Never Paid to Build
· 6 min read
Cash-Access Rules Have Opened 230 Banking Hubs and Owe 120 More. What They Guarantee Is Cash, Not a Bank.
Finance UK
Cash-Access Rules Have Opened 230 Banking Hubs and Owe 120 More. What They Guarantee Is Cash, Not a Bank.
· 5 min read
Britain's pension reform can force poor funds to move savers out, but the test and the teeth are still unwritten
Finance UK
Britain's pension reform can force poor funds to move savers out, but the test and the teeth are still unwritten
· 5 min read
The FCA's Conduct Rules Used to Police Client Money. Now They Reach How You Treat a Colleague.
Finance UK
The FCA's Conduct Rules Used to Police Client Money. Now They Reach How You Treat a Colleague.
· 5 min read
Basel 3.1 Reaches UK Banks in January 2027 on Terms the US and EU No Longer Share
Finance UK
Basel 3.1 Reaches UK Banks in January 2027 on Terms the US and EU No Longer Share
· 6 min read
Buy Now Pay Later Became Regulated Credit in July, Giving 11 Million UK Users New Protections
Finance UK
Buy Now Pay Later Became Regulated Credit in July, Giving 11 Million UK Users New Protections
· 6 min read
Britain Sets 11 October 2027 for Next-Day Settlement, Moving in Step With the EU and Switzerland
Finance UK
Britain Sets 11 October 2027 for Next-Day Settlement, Moving in Step With the EU and Switzerland
· 6 min read

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