The gambling industry is using third-party companies to harvest peoples data, helping bookmakers and online casinos target people on low incomes and those who have stopped gambling, the Guardian can reveal. Traditional online gambling ads have become more expensive, which has encouraged betting firms to resort to alternative means to hook consumers. This led to…
DetailsImage copyright Getty Images For David Bradford, his gambling addiction had got as bad as it possibly could. The 57 year-old was in prison for fraud after stealing £50,000. His habit had cost his family their home and left them buried under £500,000 of debt. For 888.com, however, there was more to be had out…
DetailsFollow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter. President Donald Trump is considering attaching an increase in the U.S. debt limit to an initial $5.95 billion disaster aid funding request for Hurricane Harvey, two administration officials said, a move aimed at lowering the risk of an…
Details(Adds details on funding request, background, adds quote from head of Senate appropriations panel) WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Congress for an initial $7.85 billion for Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts, the White House budget director said on Friday, adding that failure to raise the budget ceiling may hinder disaster…
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DetailsNigeria: Restructuring & Insolvency Review 2017 September 2017 Etigwe Uwa SAN, Streamsowers & Köhn In legal parlance, restructuring of a corporate entity is effected upon a declaration of insolvency or to avert insolvency or in some cases for the expansion of the business base of such organisation. In the case of statutory…
DetailsBusiness News Gigs & Festivals Live Business By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 1 September 2017 The company behind the disastrous Fyre Festival has been put into bankruptcy by a US judge, according to the Wall Street Journal. Though its Fyre Festival LLC currently facing the bankruptcy proceedings, rather than parent company Fyre Media Inc.…
DetailsTHE daughter of a Wide Bay Burnett cattleman, who was evicted and allegedly forced into bankruptcy, has had the stud Brahmans she bought from her parents seized by bank trustees. The 14 stud Brahman cows and calves are set to be sold, despite Brooke Dingle offering evidence of her full ownership. The females were originally purchased by Ms Dingles parents but were bought…
DetailsSept. 1, 2017 5:30 a.m. ET WASHINGTONWidespread support on Capitol Hill for Hurricane Harvey relief aid could help ease passage of high-stakes fiscal legislation that Congress must approve in September, lawmakers and analysts say. As Texas and Louisiana began to regroup after the storms record rainfalls, both Democrats and Republicans said they hoped to pass…
DetailsWOULD you credit it? Our borrowing has risen to such record levels that charities are warning that we are risking a serious debt problem. Credit taken out in the year to July grew by almost ten per cent, new figures from the Bank of England revealed this week. The average household owes £7,413 in unsecured…
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