Former Treasury mandarin James Sassoon believes there is another way to stand up to the increasing power of China as it spreads its influence – and technological expertise – across the Western world.
Concurrent Technologies makes high-performance computer hardware, used when durability, security and reliability are paramount.
The bank will now have to pay out tens of millions of pounds after a judge found it guilty of offering fraudsters ‘dishonest assistance’ in cheating the taxman. It is appealing the ruling, made last month.
Aviva Investors, which manages £346billion of investments, has revealed it is urging boards to cut executive pay before making large scale redundancies.
Nick Sangwin, chairman of the National Federation of Builders, said the levy, to fund industry training, would hamstring firms struggling to get back on their feet as the coronavirus crisis eases.
Investors were told that Eclipse Partnerships would exploit the rights to films, including Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 and 3, National Treasure 2 and Enchanted.
Britain’s public finances are in a mess. The debt is now greater than the size of the economy after the government borrowed a record amount in May to prevent the country from collapse.
Motorists pay 57.95p in tax per litre of petrol and diesel they buy. But just £4.1bn was collected in fuel duty between March and May, compared with £6.6bn during the same period a year ago.
Stephen Jones, the former boss of UK Finance, who is already embroiled in a sexism row has been dragged deeper into Amanda Staveley’s £1.6bn High Court battle with Barclays.
The supermarket giant’s bosses now face the embarrassing prospect of a slapdown from shareholders after handing outgoing chief exec Dave Lewis a bumper £6.4m pay package.