Author: Perry

Tom Bill is head of UK residential research at Knight Frank A House of Lords event last week underlined growing disquiet over the government’s non-dom tax reforms. But any new direction on policy may have to wait until the autumn. A House of Lords reception last Monday provided the government with a perfect opportunity to read the room on its non-dom reforms. But it’s hard to read the room when you’re not in it. Sponsored by Conservative peer Baroness Mobarik on behalf of Foreign Investors for Britain, the evening event drew cross-party MPs and peers, alongside senior business leaders including…

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21 July, 2025 11 min read Share Copy Link Copied When your business owns more than one company, it can be hard to keep track of each subsidiary’s contribution to the overall result. You may have multiple income statements, balance sheets and reports floating around. How can you make sense of it all?  You do so by gathering all the information in a consolidated financial statement. This gives a clear overview of how the group as a whole is performing, and the role of each unit.  Consolidated financials are often required by accounting rules, but they’re useful in their own…

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Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems for cybersecurity defense, announced Tuesday it has raised $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate what its founders describe as a fundamental shift from human-versus-human to “agent-versus-agent” warfare in cybersecurity. The Menlo Park-based company’s funding round, led by venture capital firm Accel with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, comes as organizations struggle with an overwhelming volume of security alerts while sophisticated attackers increasingly leverage…

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The government has unveiled plans to protect existing pubs, clubs and music venues from noise complaints made by people in new developments. Developers will be responsible for soundproofing their buildings if they choose to build near existing pubs, clubs or music venues, in a principle the government dubbed ‘Agent of Change’. There will also be new ‘hospitality zones’, where permissions for alfresco dining, street parties and extended opening hours will be fast-tracked. The change comes as part of the National Licensing Policy Framework, which will also make it easier to convert disused shops into hospitality venues. Jonathan Reynolds, business and…

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22 July 2025 Here’s some great news that could make your life a whole lot easier! Over the last few months, we’ve added three new integration partners to our growing list. Say hello to Jenesys, Powdr and viaSocket.  Client insights made simple with Jenesys  By integrating your FreeAgent account with Jenesys, expense documents will be automatically extracted and reviewed by the world’s first AI-powered intelligent bookkeeper, Jack.  Your FreeAgent clients and their employees can simply WhatsApp, email or use Jack’s fetch functionalities to share expense invoices and receipts for speedy extraction and quick publishing to FreeAgent.   This allows you to…

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If you’ve searched anything on Google lately, chances are you’ve seen an AI overview (AIO). Formerly known as SGE, AI overviews are the succinct AI-generated summaries of information that appear right at the top of Google for a majority of search queries.While it can serve as a convenient way to get a question answered quickly without having to sift through so many options of links to click on, it certainly has some issues. There have been plenty of instances of false information being presented.Accuracy and trust are particularly important in high-stakes industries like health, law, and finance. What happens when…

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EVER SINCE President Donald Trump unveiled his Liberation Day tariffs in April, the world’s biggest trading relationship had been on the rocks. The European Union swung from trying to sweet-talk America into making a deal, to threatening retaliation. On July 27th dealmaking won out. At his golf course in Scotland the president and Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, unveiled the outline of a preliminary trade agreement. The bloc has pulled off a tricky balancing act: making enough concessions to keep Mr Trump happy, while limiting the economic damage. Source link

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