Octobank – the future face of finance

I’ve been tracking the financial technology (fintech) sector for a decade now. It strikes me that three significant changes are under way. The first is the rise of cryptocurrency and all the digital a

The social becomes political TikTok—Gen Z’s most popular social media platform, famed for zany dance routines and crooning pets and helmed by CEO Shou Zi Chew (above)—has long faced a possible U.S. ba

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Trend-setting health tech In a stressful period in 2021, Tom Hale was having trouble sleeping. He bought an Oura Ring, the pioneering smart device that tracks stats about sleep and health, and made a

Operation Spider’s Web, in which dozens of Russian bombers were destroyed with drones, shows Ukraine’s aptitude for blue-sky thinking. It marks an inflection point in warfare

TSB sold: Spanish banking group Sabadell is selling its British arm, Edinburgh-based TSB, to fellow Spanish bank Santander for £2.65bn. That will make Santander Britain’s third-largest bank by persona