13 January marked the one year anniversary of Open Banking, an initiative introduced to help make managing our financial lives easier. But how much have things changed? The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) forced the nine largest banks (Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, Danske, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, RBS Group, Santander) to … Continued
Glasgow-based Collagen Solutions PLC has been awarded a grant of up to £1.54m from the Scottish government as part of plans to grow the life sciences sector in the country. The grant will cover more than a third of Collagen’s expected R&D costs – estimated to be in the region of £4m – over the next … Continued
Arecor Ltd, the specialty pharmaceutical company leveraging its innovative and proprietary formulation technology to develop superior treatments for a range of disease areas, including diabetes, is pleased to announce that the Company has filed a Clinical Trial Application (CTA) to conduct a Phase I study in Type 1 patients of its ultra-rapid acting insulin product, … Continued
Help Kick Start Better Financial Habits 1 Set goals Write down short-, medium- or long-term financial goals for this year – like setting up your own business, paying off the mortgage early, affording a big holiday or paying off credit card debt. Having something specific to save for will help you focus and make it … Continued
Horizon Discovery Group plc, a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces that it has entered into an exclusive target discovery partnership with C4X Discovery Holdings plc, a pioneering drug discovery company, to validate targets and develop next-generation oncology drugs. The partnership aims to validate the novel synthetic lethal … Continued
Sam Horti of T3 discusses how to take the hassle out of shave shopping with the best online subscription razors If you haven’t fallen victim to the hipster revolution, and favour a wet shave over electric, then you’ll need to buy razor blades – and that’s where a subscription service can help you. Forget the … Continued
The Irish Times covers the news of Venn’s latest strategic collaboration with Open Orphan DAC. Venn has established full-service clinical research programmes and activities in 27 different countries. The company seeks to increase its focus on rare diseases and assume a market-leading position.The firm also said it had issued £1 million (€1.1 million) in privately-held … Continued
Peter Smith from Spend Matters discusses the latest on Calculus investment, CloudTrade, with Non-Executive Chairman, Philip Padfield Last week I caught up with Philip Padfield, a non-executive Chairman with CloudTrade. He also introduced me to their new marketing head, Tara Burghardt. CloudTrade has been going since 2010 but seems to be slipping into a higher gear, … Continued
Calculus Capital portfolio company Money Dashboard scooped three awards last night at the Open Banking Awards for: – Best use of data science for good – Best innovation for savings journey – Most innovative new feature as a force for making lives better This follows the announcement earlier yesterday that Money Dashboard has linked up … Continued
Edinburgh, UK, 5th December 2018 / Synpromics is pleased to hear that its partner, uniQure (NASDAQ:QURE), has announced the incorporation of its promoter, developed by Synpromics, in a new preclinical research target. This follows recent positive data, presented at the ESGCT world congress, demonstrating that this highly selective liver promoter is at least eight times more potent than … Continued