by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 8, 2023 | International News, Policy, Regulation
In Britain, insurance company collapses currently come under modified UK company insolvency arrangements, which the finance ministry said may be less effective for an industry with 2.7 trillion pounds ($3.45 trillion) in assets London: Britain said on Wednesday it...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 9, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pension & Social Security, Policy
Britain’s financial services were largely cut off from the EU due to Brexit, with Amsterdam overtaking London as the region’s biggest share trading centre. UK chip designer ARM’s decision to list in New York and not London has also piled pressure on...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Technology
Britain aims to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which involves filtering planet-warming carbon from industrial smokestacks before it hits the atmosphere and storing it underground, to hold 20 million to 30 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030 London: Twelve...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
The government has been forced to act after British childcare costs rose steadily to become among the most expensive in the world, according to the OECD, taking up nearly 30% of the income of a couple with two young children. Britain will expand free childcare to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Much of Europe is baking in a heatwave that has pushed temperatures into the mid-40s Celsius (over 110 Fahrenheit) in some regions, with wildfires raging across tinder-dry countryside in Portugal, Spain and France. Britain’s government triggered a...