What caused the $6.3bn Binance hack?

Blockchains are not the problem; it is the ecosystem around them that has introduced technological vulnerabilities

Posted on Monday November 02, 2026

Serbia shuts down bank favoured by Russians

Alta Bank is suspected of wiring large amounts of money out of the country after election loss of former president Aleksandar Vučić

Posted on Monday November 02, 2026

The biggest-ever hedge fund spinout

Plus, insurers stay bullish on private markets, Binance suffers $6.3bn heist, and ‘The Magic Flute’ at New York’s Metropolitan Opera

Posted on Monday November 02, 2026

A lasting injustice from the Libor affair

Whistleblower is the only one of 19 jailed bankers not to have had his conviction overturned yet

Posted on Monday November 02, 2026

BCG hit with tax probe as HMRC steps up scrutiny of consultants

Agency scrutinising whether some UK partners at elite consultancy should be treated as employees for tax purposes

Posted on Monday November 02, 2026

Nvidia orders data centre clients to reduce China exposure

World’s biggest chipmaker tells cloud computing providers a majority of their clients must be non-Chinese

Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026

The AI problem we feared is not the AI problem we got

Lay-offs are low by historical standards but young people may still need help finding a foothold in the labour market

Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026

North Korean hackers expected to take months to launder stolen Binance billions

Tokens are visible on public blockchains and have been split into small packages in an attempt to stop them being traced, experts say

Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026

One battle after another: Trump’s turbulent 21 months

From ‘liberation day’ and bond market turmoil to Maduro’s capture, the goading of Zelenskyy and war in Iran, it has been a head-spinning period in US politics

Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026

US strikes Iran’s Qeshm Island on eve of election

Washington said attacks were defensive

Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026