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Beam has announced its return to the Annual Finance Forum, which will be held on June 9, 2025 at Leonard Hinckley Island. This year’s forum brings together senior financial experts and venue and agency leaders to address the real-world financial and operational risks and challenges facing business events, accommodation and conference departments. The agenda, including AI-driven payment fraud and cyber liability, was developed in response to member feedback identifying concerns about the growing threat of cybercrime. Julie Sholock, who is on the Beam Advisory Committee for Finance, said: “Along with cyber resilience, the program on the day will also explore…
For years, the UK’s land wind sector has made a comeback, with nearly 18 GW of GW queued for connections on the horizon and ambitious new grid reforms. As Suzanna Lashford of Vattenfall Idno points out, ambitions were never an issue. The challenge is now to build projects that will serve both the grid and the communities they pass through. The UK’s onshore wind sector is experiencing a major revival. Following the Labour Government’s decision to lift restrictive planning rules, developers are once again investigating wind projects that have been on the sidelines for years. This policy shift will reclassify…
President of the United States Donald Trump arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia just after 10am and began his tour of the Middle East, greeted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. During the three-day trip, he will also travel to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and focus on securing economic agreements with three of the world’s wealthiest countries. The trip will include discussions about investment opportunities, and some experts say Trump may urge Gulf countries to lower oil prices. When will Trump visit countries? Trump arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia just before 10am local time (07:00 GMT) on Saturday,…
New Delhi, India – Guns have fallen silent for now along the tense India-Pakistan frontier, after a ceasefire that appears to have held for three nights. On May 7, India launched predawn attacks on what it called multiple “terror sites” across Pakistan to avenge the April 22 killing of 26 men, almost all of them tourists, in Indian-administered Kashmir’s resort town of Pahalgam. New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing the gunmen. Pakistan denied its involvement. India’s aerial assault kick-started four days of heightened tension, as both neighbours fired missiles and drones at each other’s military installations in a rapidly escalating cycle…
May 13, 2025Ravi LakshmananCybercrime/Ransomware Moldova’s law enforcement arrested a 45-year-old foreigner suspected of being involved in a series of ransomware attacks targeting Dutch companies in 2021. “He internationally hopes that he has committed several cybercrimes (ransomware attacks, fearful mail and money laundering) against a Netherlands-based company,” the official said in a statement Monday. In connection with the arrest, police seized more than 84,000 euros ($93,000) on cash, an e-wallet, two laptops, mobile phones, tablets, six bank cards, two data storage devices and six memory cards. The suspect’s name has not been revealed. However, he is said to have been detained…
May 13, 2025Ravi LakshmananZero Day/Vulnerability The Türkiye-related threat actor exploited the zero-day security flaw on an Indian enterprise communications platform called Output Messenger as part of its cyberspy attack campaign since April 2024. “These exploits have resulted in a collection of relevant user data from targets in Iraq,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said. “The targets of the attack are associated with Kurdish forces operating in Iraq and are consistent with previously observed marble dust targeting priorities.” This activity is attributed to a threat group that tracks it as marble dust (formerly silicon), also known as Space Wolf, Horse, Teal…
The Revolut and Monzo app icons are now displayed on your smartphone.Betty Laura Zapata | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinancial technology companies were initially the biggest losers in 2022 interest rate hikes by the Global Central Bank, which led to a valuation.However, over time, this change in the interest rate environment has steadily increased the profits of Fintech. This is because higher fees increase what is called net interest income, or the difference between the fees charged on the loan and the interest paid to the saver.In 2024, several fintechs, including Robinhood, Revolut and Monzo, have driven their bottom line as…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Campus activism has been flaring up as the school year ended, with Palestinian parents demonstratings that led to arrests at several universities.Compared to last spring, when Over 2,100 people have been arrested At campus protests across the country, demonstrations are smaller and more scattered.But the interests are also much higher. President Donald Trump’s administration has investigated dozens of universities for handling protests, including anti-Semitism allegations and frozen federal grants as leverage. Press Request For new rules on activism. The university, in turn, takes more difficult boundaries following discipline and enforcement. New policy It was adopted to prevent…
These are important events on the 1,174th day of the Russian Ukrainian War.It’s where things stand on Tuesday, May 13th. Ceasefire Moscow has yet to say whether Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet in person with Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelensky, scheduled for Thursday in Istanbul and proposed by Kiev over the weekend. The leaders have not met since December 2019. US President Donald Trump said he is “considering taking flight” to Istanbul to participate in a potential Putin Zelensky meeting. “I don’t know where I’m going on Thursday – I have a lot of meetings – but I was actually…
Many witnesses have taken him to the position at the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, who faces allegations of assault and sex trafficking while heading the entertainment empire. Testimony from the trial began on Monday after the selection of ju judges from lawyers and the final stages of the opening statement. The comb, wearing a light gray sweater, gave his supporters a thumbs up in a courtroom in New York City, USA. “For 20 years, the defendant committed a crime that he committed, with the help of his trusty inner circle,” U.S. Attorney Assistant Emily Johnson told the court. “That’s…