(IN BRIEF) Schroders has announced four senior leadership changes to bolster its client-first strategy. Karine Szenberg will become Executive Vice Chair, focusing on strategic alliances and maintaining her place on the Group Executive Committee. Matt Oomen joins as Global Head … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Industrial, Insurance, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged appointment, Asia leadership, Asia wealth, asset management, BNY Investments, client relationships, Country Head Hong Kong, digital transformation, Executive Vice Chair, Global Head of Client Group, Gopi Mirchandani, Group Executive Committee, Head of Client Group Asia, Jason Yu, Karine Szenberg, leadership, Matt Oomen, Richard Oldfield, Schroders
(IN BRIEF) On June 3, the University of Exeter and Exeter College formalised an updated Memorandum of Understanding that deepens a partnership spanning around twenty years. Signed at the University’s Streatham Campus, the MoU reinforces both institutions’ commitment to co-leading … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged academic pathways, Community Engagement, Devon, education ecosystem, Exeter Civic University Agreement, Exeter College, Exeter Mathematics School, John Laramy, Lisa Roberts, Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, partnership, regional development, South West Institute of Technology, Streatham campus, Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust, University of Exeter
(IN BRIEF) At Risk Live Europe 2025 (June 17–18, Convene Sancroft, London), Wolters Kluwer FRR will spotlight its OneSumX finance and risk-reporting platform and contribute thought leadership on modern risk challenges. Francis Lacan, Director of Product Management, will speak on … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Media, Netherlands, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Convene Sancroft, credit risk, Francis Lacan, Jeroen Van Doorsselaere, liquidity risk, London, Market Risk, OneSumX, operational risk, regulatory reporting, risk analytics, Risk Live Europe 2025, Risk Technology Awards, traditional risk models, volatility, Wolters Kluwer FRR
(IN BRIEF) Vodafone Business and Airbus Public Safety and Security have launched a secure critical-communications service across Europe that links mobile users with control rooms via voice, messaging, video, and location services. Built on Vodafone’s MCX prioritisation and Airbus’s Agnet … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, Defence, Financial, France, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Security & Safety, Technology, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged 4G/5G Networks, Agnet, Airbus Public Safety and Security, Collaborative and Safe Worker, Collaborative Worker, critical communications, instant messaging, lifeguard feature, location services, low earth orbit satellites, Marika Auramo, MCX, mission-critical operations, Olivier Koczan, partnership, push-to-talk, SaaS, secure collaboration, video streaming, Vodafone Business, Voice over LTE
(IN BRIEF) Wood and its JV partner Tendrill have secured a five-year contract—with a two-year extension option—to provide comprehensive brownfield EPC services for Brunei Shell Petroleum’s offshore and onshore facilities. The agreement entrusts the TendrillWood JV with full-cycle project delivery, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged 2023 joint venture, brownfield EPC services, Brunei Shell Petroleum, BSP, capacity building, commissioning, conceptual design, energy security, Haryati Ramlee, John Wood Group PLC, Ken Gilmartin, local content, Local Talent Development, offshore assets, onshore assets, partnership, start-up, supply chain, sustainability, Tendrill International Sdn. Bhd, TendrillWood JV, Wood
(IN BRIEF) Pearson has agreed to purchase eDynamic Learning, a leading provider of digital CTE curricula, to expand its Early Careers portfolio. eDynamic Learning serves 885,000 K–12 students across 9,000+ institutions and offers 325 courses in over 40 career pathways … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Internet & Online, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged acquisition, Career and Technical Education, career pathways, career-readiness solutions, cash reserves, CTE, digital courses, early careers, eDynamic Learning, FTSE: PSON.L, H2 2025, Jerry Wooden, K–12, Omar Abbosh, Pearson, post-secondary, virtual simulations, Workforce Training
(IN BRIEF) Heriot Country Kids has been awarded a five-year grant from the Carcant Wind Farm Community Fund to fund a Lead Practitioner, securing its wraparound childcare provision. The club supports 18 families monthly—benefiting around 100 individuals annually—and is celebrated … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Non Profit, United Kingdom
Tagged affordable childcare, after-school club, Carcant Wind Farm Community Fund, community sustainability, five-year grant, Heriot Country Kids, Heriot Primary School, holiday care, inclusive services, Lead Practitioner, neurodivergent support, partnership, rural childcare, wraparound childcare
(IN BRIEF) EY.ai for Risk is a new suite of AI-powered risk management tools developed in partnership with NVIDIA. Combining NVIDIA NIM microservices and EY’s 100+ years of risk expertise, the solution runs on the EY.ai agentic platform to streamline … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Security & Safety, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged AI agents, AI-Q Blueprints, Data Flywheel, document automation, EY.ai agentic platform, EY.ai for Risk, financial services, John Fanelli, Kapish Vanvaria, life sciences, Manufacturing, NIM microservices, NVIDIA, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, operational resilience, partnership, risk strategies, third-party risk management, TMT, TPRM Managed Services, Uber, validated design
(IN BRIEF) During the first week of June, SAMS in Oban hosted a concentrated programme of events for the salmon aquaculture sector, including a sea lice detection workshop under the BBSRC-funded E(tive)lice project, a visit from Norway’s Seafood Research Fund, … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Education, Environment, Industrial, Investment, Management, Media, News, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Aqua-Reg 2025, Argyll Fisheries Trust, BBSRC, blue economy, Daniel Carcajona, E(tive)lice, eDNA, FHF, finfish farming, harmful algal blooms, Innovate UK, lipidomics, Mowi, Norwegian Seafood Research Fund, Oban, predictive modelling, salmon aquaculture, Salmon Scotland, SAMS, Scottish Association for Marine Science, sea lice, Steve Ham, sustainable aquaculture, University of Glasgow
(IN BRIEF) Uniper and Energiekontor UK have launched construction on a 46.2 MW wind farm in East Ayrshire, Scotland, capable of powering over 66,000 homes. Approved in 2022 and revised in 2024, the seven-turbine project starts building in 2027 and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged 000 homes, 10 GW ready-to-build capacity, 46.2 MW, 66, AE Yates Ltd, Alex Smethers, carbon neutral by 2040, East Ayrshire wind farm, Energiekontor UK, Energiekontor UK Construction Ltd, energy transition, Nordex, partnership, Peter Szabo, renewable energy, Scotland, sustainability, UK renewables, Uniper, wind power
(IN BRIEF) NatWest has named Dr. Maja Pantic as its first Chief AI Research Officer to spearhead the bank’s AI-driven transformation and simplification strategy. Dr. Pantic, formerly Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing at Imperial College London and a leader … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged 'Cora', AI Research, AI Transformation, appointment, AskArchie+, automation, bank-wide simplification, Chief AI Research Officer, customer satisfaction, deepfake detection, GenAI platform, generative AI, Imperial College London, ledership, Maja Pantic, Meta London, multimodal AI, NatWest, OpenAI partnership, Responsible AI, Samsung AI Research Centre, Scott Marcar, virtual assistants
(IN BRIEF) Orange Business has partnered with Toshiba Europe to launch Orange Quantum Defender, the first quantum-safe network service available commercially in greater Paris. By combining Toshiba’s QKD hardware with robust PQC software, the service delivers a multi-tiered security model … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, France, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, Cybersecurity, defence in depth, enterprise data protection, fibre network, financial services, France national quantum strategy, greater Paris, Hiroshi Tsukino, Orange Business, Orange Quantum Defender, partnership, Post-quantum cryptography, PQC, QKD, quantum key distribution, quantum-safe networking, store now decrypt later, Toshiba Europe
(IN BRIEF) Wood has been awarded a $2.8 billion EPCm contract by ADNOC to upgrade and expand processing at the Habshan and Habshan 5 gas complexes in the UAE, with around $400 million attributable to EPCm services. The scope involves … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged $2.8 billion contract, Abu Dhabi, ADNOC, brownfield modifications, debottlenecking, energy security, EPCM services, front-end engineering design, gas throughput, Habshan 5, Habshan gas processing complex, John Wood Group PLC, Ken Gilmartin, partnership, Rich Gas Development, sustainability, Wood
(IN BRIEF) The University of Southampton has been selected by the UK government to lead the Spärck AI scholarship programme, which fully funds master’s degrees in artificial intelligence and bears the name of computing pioneer Karen Spärck Jones. As one … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged AI research and innovation, AI Security Institute, applications spring 2026, artificial intelligence training, cohort October 2026, fully funded master’s degrees, Karen Spärck Jones, partnership, Peter Kyle MP, Plan for Change, Professor Mark Spearing, Spärck AI scholarships, tech workforce development, UK government initiative, University of Southampton
(IN BRIEF) The University of York is a principal partner in the Yorkshire and North Yorkshire bid to become one of the UK’s inaugural AI Growth Zones, which promise significant government funding for AI-ready data centres and power infrastructure. Drawing … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged AI and Clean Energy Campus, AI ethics, AI Growth Zone, AI safety, carbon-negative data centre, Charlie Jeffery, Comprehensive Spending Review, data centres, Digital Inclusion, Drax Power Station, jobs creation, North Yorkshire Council, partnership, power infrastructure, Responsible AI, sustainability, University of York, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, Yorkshire and the Humber, £85 billion growth
(IN BRIEF) LNR has introduced 36 UK-built Class 730/2 electric trains, adding 180 carriages and boosting capacity by 20 percent on services to and from London Euston. These five-car Aventra units—equipped with open gangways, seat-level charging, and intelligent air conditioning—will … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, France, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, Travel, United Kingdom
Tagged 180 carriages, 20% capacity uplift, 36 new trains, 406 seats, 812 paired seats, Adrian Grigg, Alstom, Andy Butters, Aventra, charging points, Class 350 replacement, Class 730/2, Derby factory, Ian McConnell, intelligent air conditioning, Litchurch Lane Works, London Euston, London Northwestern Railway, Northampton, open gangways, partnership, Peter Broadley, Rob Whyte, rollout by end 2026, sustainability, Trent Valley line, West Midlands Trains
(IN BRIEF) Vodafone, Nokia, Qualcomm Technologies and Xiaomi have successfully demonstrated a 5G software enhancement based on 1024 QAM, boosting download speeds by up to 1.7 Gbps—roughly a 25 percent improvement over 256 QAM. Trials at Vodafone’s Ciudad Real centre … Read the full press release
Posted in Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged 1024 QAM, 3GPP, 5G, AD Little, Alberto Ripepi, Ciudad Real, data throughput, Dino Flore, download speeds, enterprise applications, ERP, Habrok 64, latency reduction, Mark Atkinson, Massive MIMO, mobile broadband, network capacity, Nokia, Qualcomm Technologies, Snapdragon 8 Elite, spectral efficiency, vodafone, Xiaomi, Yongmin Huo
(IN BRIEF) Vodafone and ORCA Computing have teamed up to explore quantum-powered solutions for optimising broadband network expansions. By running Vodafone’s network-planning software on ORCA’s ORCA PT-2 photonic quantum computer, the collaboration seeks to reduce cable lengths, refine mobile base-station … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Industrial, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged AI, broadband network, James Fletcher, Luke Ibbetson, Machine Learning, mobile base stations, network optimisation, network planning software, optical fibre, ORCA Computing, ORCA PT-2 Series, photonic quantum system, QTAP, quantum computing, R&D, satellite broadband, Steiner Tree Problem, undersea cables, vodafone
(IN BRIEF) BAE Systems and Hanwha Systems have formalised a partnership via an MOU to co-create a next-generation multi-sensor satellite system for international ISR applications. BAE Systems will supply ultra-wideband RF sensors, while Hanwha Systems will contribute advanced SAR technology. … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Defence, Government, Industrial, Investment, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Azalea™, BAE Systems, edge processors, Hanwha Systems, Industry Minister, intelligence surveillance reconnaissance, international markets, ISR, low Earth orbit, Machine Learning, Memorandum of Understanding, multi-sensor satellite, Rachael Hoyle, SAR, Sarah Jones MP, satellite constellation, space technologies, Sung-Chan Song, Synthetic Aperture Radar, UK Government, ultra-wideband RF sensors
(IN BRIEF) National Grid has joined forces with Hyperion Robotics and the University of Sheffield to test low-carbon 3D-printed concrete foundations in a UK-first trial. The project, backed by Ofgem’s Network Innovation Allowance, will see the foundations installed at the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged 3D-printed concrete, carbon emissions reduction, concrete alternatives, Deeside Centre for Innovation, Dr Behzad Nematollahi, Dr Muhammad Shaban, energy network, Fernando De los Rios, Hyperion Robotics, ICAIR, low carbon construction, national grid, Network Innovation Allowance, Ofgem, partnership, substation foundations, sustainability, sustainable infrastructure, UK energy sector, University of Sheffield
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