Author: Sam Allcock

Blink and you’ll miss something. That’s how the modern game feels for most UK supporters. Keeping on top of football news throughout the season means following two stories, not one: the club campaign that runs from late summer to spring, and an international calendar with its own qualifiers, friendlies and tournaments. They overlap constantly. And they rarely wait for you to catch up. So how do you keep pace without living on your phone? Understand that there are two stories Most fans experience the year through their club. It starts in August, builds through winter and wraps up in May.…

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At the Middle East Banking Innovation Summit, Sends CEO Alona Shevtsova sat with senior banking and payments executives to explain how instant payments, digital wallets and cross-border infrastructure are being reshaped. MEBIS 2026, the seventeenth outing of the Middle East Banking Innovation Summit, was held on 17 September and drew banking, fintech and technology leaders to Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai. One of the sector figures taking part was Alona Shevtsova, CEO of Sends, who contributed to the panel discussion “Payment Innovation in Banking: Real Time, Cross Border and Wallet Driven Evolution,” a session devoted to explaining the pressures behind…

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has granted wider regulatory permissions to UNLU Securities UK Limited, the British subsidiary of ÜNLÜ & Co, which will now trade as UNLU Merchant Bank Limited. This enlarged platform is set to widen what the Group can do from London and to reinforce the position of ÜNLÜ & Co as a bridge linking Türkiye with international financial markets. LONDON – Marking its 30th year of operation, ÜNLÜ & Co, Türkiye’s leading group in asset management and investment services, is starting a new phase of growth internationally. With its regulatory permissions now widened, the Group’s British…

Whenever the US Federal Reserve issues a policy statement from Washington, the news can seem utterly remote to a family scrolling through property listings in Manchester, or to a Bristol borrower arranging a new deal. Yet finance today is woven tightly together, and the verdicts reached by Fed Chair Kevin Warsh alongside the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) travel straight over the Atlantic. Should you be hunting for a fixed-rate product right now, or simply puzzling over the direction of British borrowing costs, grasping how American rate policy feeds into UK mortgage lending really matters. 1. Dollar Exchange Rates and…

Two developments in London this August have drawn a direct line between Türkiye’s polar research programme and the international climate diplomacy building towards COP31, which Türkiye is due to host. A new book on zero waste in the Arctic and Antarctic and a fresh cooperation agreement with London Climate Action Week together signal an expanding role for Turkish environmental policy on the world stage. The Zero Waste Foundation is behind both initiatives. On 7 August it launched “Zero Waste in the Polar Regions”, a book produced with TÜBİTAK’s (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) Polar Research Institute, which…

In todays fast paced world it can feel hard to stay productive because youre sort of juggling work, family duties, personal obligations and hobbies all at once. and, honestly, that packed schedule often makes it tough to get that solid seven to nine hours of sleep every single night. Still, even if falling asleep can be awkward, getting the right nighttime rest should remain the top concern. at the same time, smart short naps can be a helpful tool to regain energy, sharpen attention, and keep your whole well being on track. A well timed nap isnt some kind of…

The Zero Waste Foundation engaged diplomats at London Climate Action Week, ahead of COP31 in Türkiye. Samed Ağırbaş held a run of meetings with diplomats that closed with a roundtable at Buckingham Palace ahead of the summit. The Zero Waste Foundation is a main stakeholder of London Climate Action Week. From 22 to 25 June, the foundation held a climate diplomacy plan in London tied to COP31. It met with finance leaders, city officials and diplomats to fix zero waste, the circular economy and climate justice at the heart of global efforts, as Türkiye prepares to host COP31. “London Climate…

Most small business owners I’ve met have the same look when the topic of SEO comes up — a mix of curiosity, mild dread, and the quiet suspicion that they’re supposed to be doing something but aren’t entirely sure what. And honestly, who can blame them? Running a business already feels like juggling flaming torches while riding a bicycle. Adding “learn Google’s ever‑changing rulebook” to the list isn’t exactly appealing. That’s precisely why hiring an SEO Freelance consultant has become one of the most cost‑effective decisions a small business can make. Not glamorous, not flashy — just smart. The price…

Most fashion executives treat sustainability as a cost problem. The materials are more expensive, the supply chain is more complicated, and the customer premium for environmental responsibility is real but harder to capture than the aspirational marketing suggests. The calculus is usually to do the minimum that earns a headline without disrupting the margin structure. Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt López approached it differently. When he directed Hawkers to launch the H2O collection, the company wasn’t positioning itself for a green marketing cycle. It was testing whether the economics of sustainable eyewear could be made to work at volume. Each pair of…