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G2A and epay are widening digital gift card access globally. The partnership brings hundreds of entertainment gift cards into one marketplace for faster, simpler top-ups.
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Investors are redrawing ESG around health, governance, and measurable outcomes. A Berenberg survey reported by The Times suggests climate has slipped behind more specific themes as fund managers respond to tighter rules, weaker fund flows, and demand for clearer investment cases.
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Young Britons are moving abroad earlier in adult life now. The TEFL Academy’s latest report combines survey data and migration figures to argue that Gen Z is driving the shift.
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Check Point has launched a control layer for enterprise AI. The new AI Defense Plane is designed to govern employee AI use, AI applications, and agentic systems from one security architecture.
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HMRC rejects nearly half of digital tax exemption requests. Over 1,600 taxpayers applied for exemptions from Making Tax Digital for Income Tax due to digital exclusion, with 47% refused. Approved exemptions mostly relate to age, health, or digital capability.
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RAC plans £5bn IPO in London’s recovering market. The West Midlands firm has begun investor meetings, indicating its intent to join the London Stock Exchange by year-end.
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Zevero has raised fresh capital as carbon data demand surges. The funding will support product development and further expansion across Europe and Asia-Pacific as climate reporting requirements tighten and buyers demand more defensible, reusable emissions data.
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Deal confidence is rising faster than credit market trust can follow. A stronger M&A outlook now sits alongside strain in private credit, leaving boards to reconcile strategic ambition with harder questions about liquidity, underwriting, lender concentration, covenant quality, and whether the financing supporting a transaction is as durable as the deal thesis itself.
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Tech West England expands China trade mission plans for 2026. The programme pairs a November mission to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong with a June UK Market Discovery Tour timed to London Tech Week.
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Oracle is redesigning Fusion to work more directly with AI. The update shifts finance and procurement tasks toward prompts, agents, and automated execution, as the software group tries to prove enterprise applications remain central to business decision-making by becoming the layer where data, workflows, approvals, and AI actions meet securely.