Economy

Tesco and Boots lead 100,000 jobs pledge to tackle Neets crisis

Tesco, Boots and dozens of other retailers have pledged to create 100,000 new jobs in a bid to tackle the youth unemployment crisis, which they say is...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

AI Can Build Your Next Feature in Hours. Should You Join In?

AI makes software development faster and cheaper, but speed alone does not create better products.

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

AI Is Moving Faster Than Higher Education. Here’s Who Can Close the Gap.

AI has already replaced the skills we're teaching students. The capability a degree certifies now has a half-life measured in years, not decades, and...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Oxford Union Debates—Sami Hamdi Argues Israel Never Truly Wanted Peace with Palestine

In the UK, which is increasingly criminalizing speech critical of Israel, Oxford Union holds debate on the ruse of peace.

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Here’s how the City competes in an unpredictable world

In a volatile world so full of shared, increasingly complex challenges – from conflict in Europe and the Middle East and contested trade routes to the...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Smallest Businesses Fall Behind as Main Street Goes Digital

Labor Day finds Main Street approaching the fourth quarter with more ways to sell, get paid and source goods than it had four years ago. It also finds...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Insurance Claims Lose the Paper Chase as AI Gets to Work

Insurance claims have always been document-heavy, time-sensitive, and prone to fraud. A single corporate loss event can produce thousands of pages of...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Telling the truth makes you honest. Selling it makes you effective. 

Anyone can sound credible now and almost nobody is believed anymore. Most leaders already hold a truth worth hearing and have never been taught how to...

Sep 07, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Labor Day Was Built So You Can Rest. So Why Do You Feel Like You Can’t?

The holiday exists. The permission to actually stop does not. And for the people running hardest, a long weekend does not feel like rest.

Sep 05, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Allstate moves to reopen California home insurance market for first time in four years

The Golden state could be about to get one of the US’s biggest carriers writing policies again

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

I Left a Secure Career to Become an Entrepreneur — and I Wasn’t Nearly as Ready as I Thought

Thinking about quitting your job for entrepreneurship? These three tests reveal if you're actually prepared.

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

7 Quiet Signs Your Company Culture Is in Trouble

Subtle signs like silence, disengagement, favoritism and poor collaboration can reveal a struggling company culture before bigger problems emerge.

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Why Innovation Now Depends on Resilience, Not Just Speed

Speed built the last era of innovation. Resilience may define the next.

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

9/11 transformed BI disputes – what brokers should review 25 years later

Legal experts explain where policies can fall short and what should be addressed before a claim

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Where cyber conversations go wrong with small businesses

CEO believes the specialty framing keeps losing small commercial clients

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

How to tell which insurers will hold rate when the market softens

Liberty's retiring underwriting chief says mutual insurers hold a superpower most of the market might envy

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Atlantic Hurricane Season Remains Most Tranquil Since 1941

Dry air, a stable atmosphere and storm ripping wind shear are suppressing every system that emerges, fulfilling predictions that a strong El Niño will...

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Supplemental benefits belong in the HDHP conversation from the start

Renaissance's John Feeney explains why employers focused on HDHP have already created the case for supplemental coverage

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Florida's property market has shifted - what brokers need to know

Twenty new carriers, falling litigation, and moderating rates are reshaping where Florida property risks can be placed

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

What Guidewire's record year tells brokers about their carriers

P&C insurers are deepening AI commitments at scale. Here is what that means for how they place and process business

Sep 04, 2026 • 5 min read