Tag: Year
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Allica and ClearBank’s UK businesses report third year of profits
UKSME lender Allica Bank today reported its third consecutive year of profit, whilethe UK business of another UK fintech, ClearBank, also reported its third consecutive year of profit. Pre-tax profits at fintechAllica were up 23 per cent year-on-year to £36.9m in 2025, on the back of increasing its loan book by 23 per cent year-on-yearto read more
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Zopa reports third consecutive year of profit, says new current account topping expectations
Zopa Bank, the UK savings and lending digital bank, has reported its third consecutive year of profit, as it says take-up of its new current account proposition has eclipsed expectations. The London-based bank reported pre-tax profits of £44.9m 2025, up from £31.6m in 2024, driven by its borrowing and savings products. The SoftBank-backed digital bank read more
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Russia’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Is Set to Reopen This Year, But Officials Say It Isn’t a ‘Return’
After closing for the last two editions of the Venice Biennale following its war in Ukraine, Russia will reopen its national pavilion this year, its organizers told ARTnews. In February 2022, Russian artists Kirill Savchenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva, along with Lithuanian curator Raimundas Malašauskas, withdrew from the pavilion from that year’s Biennale, citing Moscow’s invasion read more
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Elephant seal pups win 2026 underwater photo award
From dramatic aquatic encounters to deep caves to fish and amphibians closely guarding their eggs, there’s an entire world below the surface that few of us ever really get to see. That’s where images like those in the annual Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) come in, glimpsing some of the darkest depths and most read more
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Heading Into Frieze After a Year Marked by Fire and ICE, Los Angeles’s Art World Is Poised Between ‘Grief and Hope’
As the art market looks ahead to its next major tentpole event, the 2026 edition of Frieze Los Angeles this week, LA is marking just over one year since devastating wildfires ripped through parts of the city. “There was really a point where we thought the whole city was going to burn down,” said lifelong read more
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Chinatown Sets the Year of the Fire Horse Aglow
News Sarula Bao created a fabric horse in the style of “bu zha,” an embroidery art form, for New York nonprofit Think!Chinatown’s annual Lantern Residency. Sarula Bao, Think!Chinatown’s Lantern Residency artist, holds up her handcrafted puppet to celebrate the Year of the Horse on Mott Street in Manhattan. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) After weeks of read more
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2024 Was a Record Year for Archeological Finds Made by the British Public
The British Museum announced today that 2024 was a record year for archeological discoveries made in the UK by members of the public, with 79,616 finds recorded. Of those, 1540 were “treasure” as defined by the UK’s 1996 Treasure Act, the highest number ever recorded for a single year. The announcement was first reported by read more
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What Art Films to See at Sundance This Year
Previews Art-related features at the film festival run the gamut from niche subjects to crowd pleasers. Still from The Gallerist, dir. Cathy Yan (all images courtesy the Sundance Film Festival) Across nearly five decades, the Sundance Film Festival has evolved from a small showcase for independent film into one of the premier festivals in the read more
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This Is the Year We Redefine Art Institutions
As we began 2025, optimism was tested in new ways — bringing to the surface what many of us in the arts had long felt simmering. DEI efforts were forcibly rolled back amid mounting political intervention in museum narratives, and high-profile disputes over representation and authorship played out in public. After Amy Sherald withdrew her read more
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Tallinn AI startup Flashka raises €1M pre-seed and hits 1M users in a year
Tallinn-founded startup Flashka, an AI-driven study app for university students, has closed a €1 millionPre-Seed round led by Outlast Fund, a Nordic-Baltic early-stage VC. Additional investors in the round include UCP and Vento Ventures. The app helps university students master complex subjects through automated flashcards, quizzes, and personalised learning tools. It has also reached 1 read more
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Africas First SureStay Hotel Marks One Year in Nairobi
Nairobi — Heri Heights Hotel Apartments is celebrating its first anniversary as the first SureStay Collection hotel in Africa. The Nairobi property combines Kenyan hospitality with the global standards and brand assurance of Best Western Hotels and Resorts. SureStay, a budget-friendly collection by Best Western, caters to travellers seeking comfort and dependable service in economy read more
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Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine, about the rise of Nvidia and its hard-driving leader Jensen Huang, has won the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. It is the second year read more
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Performa Diary: A Year of Sexy Revolutionaries
My Performa journey began on November 4. Dick Cheney died that morning, and Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York that night. In between, I was fidgety, nervous, and excited for what the city might become. Still, I managed to sit patiently through some performance art like it was my job. The show I read more
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