The City of London Corporation approved a plan to more than double the size of a financial district office tower close to Liverpool Street station to over 1 million square feet.

Britons using a chatbot from Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek should be alert to the risk to their personal data, the UK’s AI minister Feryal Clark said.

Japan expanded its export controls to include cutting-edge chips and quantum computer-related technology, a move China warned could have a negative impact on trade between the two countries.

The crypto exchange Kraken, which has long-held aspirations of becoming a publicly-traded company, said revenue more than doubled during last year’s record-breaking digital asset market rally.

Private markets are set to see trillions of dollars of inflows as wealthy individuals gain greater access to an industry once dominated by institutional investors, according to a senior managing director at Blackstone Inc.

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said she wants to see additional progress on inflation before the central bank lowers interest rates further, and questioned how restrictive policy might be given the economy’s strength.

India’s vulnerable coasts should become pivotal to the country’s resilience strategy, in the absence of adequate financial support from richer economies, government advisers told the administration.

Russia is willing to help with the reconstruction of Syria as it continues to seek a deal with the country’s new leadership to retain two vital military bases, according to a senior Middle East policy adviser to the Russian government.

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US labor cost growth cooled in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, reassuring Federal Reserve policymakers wage pressures are gradually diminishing and no longer a key driver of inflation.

Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management has hired Marshall Wace portfolio manager Kevin Liu, promising a compensation package of at least $50 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Traders are positioning for excessive volatility in the Canadian dollar, in the hours before President Donald Trump is expected to unleash his first wave of US import tariffs.