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• Mark Carney: internet-only lenders pose risk to UK financial system - The Guardian

  25-01-2017 19:24
  
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  Mark Carney: internet-only lenders pose risk to UK financial system
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  Mark Carney, who says banking authorities should undertake more disciplined management of operational and cyber risks. Photograph: Reuters. Phillip Inman Economics correspondent. Wednesday 25 January 2017 13.24 EST Last modified on Wednesday ...en meer »
  
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• Trump's wall: Mexican construction firms likely to be biggest winners

  25-01-2017 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Building experts estimate barrier could cost $31bn, with most of 40,000-strong workforce from Mexican side of borderThe biggest winners from the construction of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful, powerful” wall along the US-Mexico border are likely to be Mexican cement companies and construction workers.
  The US president was expected to sign executive orders on Wednesday laying the groundwork for the construction of his signature policy multibillion-dollar wall, which he has promi
  
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• Yorkshire building society to close 48 branches and ditch current accounts

  25-01-2017 17:06
  
  The society will ditch its Norwich & Peterborough brand on the high street and concentrate on mortgages and savingsYorkshire building society is closing 48 branches in a move it partly blamed on “an increasing desire among customers to transact digitally rather than on the high street”.
  The announcement came 24 hours after HSBC said it would be shutting another 62 branches this year, on top of 55 already earmarked for closure.Continue reading...
  
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• Ask the experts: how to build your business reputation – as it happened

  25-01-2017 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Join us on this page from 1-2pm on Wednesday 25 January to quiz our expert panel about growing a positive profile for your business 2.08pm GMTA dedicated person, or team, looking after the PR and communications of a small business can be an asset, but not all can afford it. Here’s the panel’s take: I have used PR (freelancers) when I have needed to and they don't always have to cost the earth. I have also done a lot of PR myself - by building relationships with journalist and blogger
  
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• Nicola Thorp’s courage helps us all to beat everyday sexism | Anne Perkins

  25-01-2017 13:40
  
  Nicola Thorp spoke out when she was sent home for refusing to wear heels. We should all follow her lead and resist such blatant sexismIt is the extraordinary intimacy in the detail that makes the “reception service provider” Portico’s 2016 dress code feel almost pornographic. Here is a sample from its “what we want to see” list: “Regularly maintained hair colour (if individual colours hair) with no visible roots.” No flower accessories. “Makeup at
  
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• Parents: are you worried your local nursery school might close? | Rachel Obordo

  25-01-2017 12:46
  
  One in 10 maintained nursery schools in England are facing closure due to cuts in funding. Share your experiences with us
  If you are a parent this scene may be familiar: you’re in need of a nursery school for your child but cannot find one nearby or one with places available.Related: Do nurseries harm children or not? Either way, it's all the poor's fault | Bridget ChristieContinue reading...
  
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• Brexit economy: weak pound stokes inflation as jobs market cools

  25-01-2017 12:09
  
  The latest monthly Guardian analysis finds a spending slowdown and article 50 jitters pointing to a challenging year• Help fund our journalism by becoming a Guardian supporterThe pressure on the pound from Britain’s vote to leave the EU is stoking inflation, denting household finances and putting a brake on spending, according to a Guardian analysis.Official figures this week are expected to confirm the economy enjoyed a strong finish to 2016 as companies and consumers continued to sh
  
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• Kolkata: the city that eats fish reared on sewage

  25-01-2017 11:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Farmers rear sewage-fed fish to meet the West Bengal city’s growing food demand in the face of competition for wastewater and real estateIt all started as an accident, if you believe the story that the fishermen of the east Kolkata wetlands tell. Around a century ago, a cultivator named Bidu Sarkar accidentally allowed untreated wastewater from Kolkata’s sewage pipes into his fish pond. Realising what had happened, Sarkar expected disaster. Continue reading...
  
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• Small firms split on fears and hopes over ‘hard Brexit’ says study

  25-01-2017 08:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Over a third of small businesses also expect imports to be affected, according to a report by the Federation of Small Businesses Nearly a third (29%) of small businesses expect their level of exports to fall when the UK leaves the single market, research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed.The research, which comes a week after Theresa May laid out her plans for a hard exit from the EU, also found that importers expect to be affected, with 31% predicting volumes to decreas
  
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• No unemployed, please: The dating app aimed exclusively at professionals

  25-01-2017 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Max Fischer launched the dating app BeLinked, which taps into LinkedIn data, after meeting a woman through the social network “Who would you rather date?” asks BeLinked’s Instagram feed. The man on the left slouched in a bean bag, clutching a games console controller, or the man on the right, buttoning up a slim-fitted black suit, pouting at the camera. BeLinked markets itself as a dating app for professionals. To qualify, you must be “ambitious, career focused and excite
  
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• Homes to catch the sunset – in pictures

  25-01-2017 08:00
  
  Enjoy the day’s last rays, from Italy to the Isle of Raasay Continue reading...
  
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• Halifax is chasing a debt on a house my wife left 20 years ago

  25-01-2017 08:00
  
  Her ex had forged her signature on forms and is still insisting she is liable My wife took out a joint endowment mortgage with her ex nearly 20 years ago. She left the property in 1997 and advised Halifax of her new address, but her ex refused to take her name off the mortgage. The mortgage fell into arrears and the house was repossessed in 2007 selling for £12,000 less than the loan. Now Halifax is chasing her for the shortfall. We also discovered the mortgage had been changed from an end
  
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