Lianna Brinded

News Editor

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Lianna Brinded is the news editor at International Business Times UK and has worked across print, online and TV. Her portfolio includes the Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC, CNBC and The Independent.

Lianna holds a Masters degree in Contemporary War and Peace Studies, specialising in genocide and ethic nationalist conflict, from University of Sussex, and a BA (hons) degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent.

Lover of science, Star Trek, computer games, Warhammer, triathlons and roller derby.

The Financial Conduct Authority is delving into foreign exchange traders’ private accounts to see if they traded their own money (Photo: Reuters)

FX Fixing Scandal: FCA Investigates Private Currency Trader Accounts

The regulator is delving into foreign exchange traders' private accounts to see if they traded their own money

Co-op launched a “root and branch” review of the way it is run following the Paul Flowers drugs scandal (Photo: Co-Op)

Co-op Launches Internal Investigation into 'Crystal Methodist' Paul Flowers

Co-op launched a "root and branch" review of the way it is run following the drugs scandal.

ITV broadcasts popular dramas such as Downton Abbey. Here, Cast members of the TV drama Downton Abbey hold their award for "outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series" backstage at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los

ITV Sees 2013 Profits Boost on 2% Rise in Advertising Revenues

Downton Abbey and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here broadcaster reports continual rises in ad revenue.

According to Consumer Futures data, npower received 202 complaints per 100,000 customers between April and June this year. (Photo: Reuters)

Npower Is UK's Most Complained-About Energy Firm [VIDEO]

Big six energy company gets three times the amount of complaints of its rivals.

Libor Fixing Scandal: Rabobank Ousts Executive Sipko Schat

Dutch lender says the bank's members no longer support him

Britain’s deputy prime Nick Clegg has hinted that the rumours that the government is slapping foreign property investors with a new capital gains tax is true. (Photo: Reuters)

UK Deputy PM Nick Clegg Hints at Foreign Property Owner Tax

Chancellor refuses to confirm whether government plans new tax.

Tunisia Fights Islamist Extremism Through Education [VIDEO]

Mediterranean School of Business' dean Mahmoud Triki talks to IBTimes UK in Tunisia

Paul Flowers, ex chairman of the Co-operative Bank, is seeing help for drug taking. (Photo: Co-operative Bank).

Paul Flowers: Mark Garnier MP Asks for Regulator Grilling Over Co-op 'Crystal Methodist' Chairman

Labour Party suspends disgraced ex-bank boss and Methodist minister over drugs scandal.

World Shares Hit 6-Year High on China Economic Reform Plans [VIDEO]

China unleashed a flurry of detailed economic and social reforms on 15 November

1HQ CEO Mark Artus Q&A: Evolution of International Branding [VIDEO]

1HQ chief talks to IBTimes UK about developing branding for M&S, Tesco, Cadbury, Nestle and Nokia

Tunisia Fights Islamic Extremism Through Education

Tunisia is feeling a wave of unrest ripple through its country as a spate of suicide bombings and attempted terrorist attacks has threatened to undo fragile stability created from the Arab Spring two years ago.

British energy giant Centrica is seeking a £6m refund related to its Peterborough gas-fired power station from the HM Revenue and Customs (Photo: Reuters)

Centrica Battles HMRC for £6m Power Plant Business Rate Refund

One of the 'Big Six' seeks millions in refunds in legal battle.

Severn Trent Appoints BT's Fibre Network Tsar Liv Garfield as CEO

Garfield jumps away from telecoms to the water utility company.

HSBC Global Asset Management says reforms has reinforced confidence in the country’s economic plan (Photo: Reuters)

HSBC: China to Lead Emerging Market Rebound on Economic Reforms

HSBC Global Asset Management says reforms have reinforced confidence in the country's economic plan.

Lloyds Banking Group has sold its fund management arm Scottish Widows Investment Partnership to Aberdeen Asset Management for £660m (Photo: Reuters)

Lloyds Cashes in £660m for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Sale

Embattled part-state owned bank agrees to sell fund management arm to Aberdeen Asset Management

Quest data shows that US employees testing positive for drugs has dropped sharply since 1988 after reviewing more than 125 million urine drug tests administered from 1988 to last year. (Photo: Reuters)

US Employee Prescription Drug Use Booms as Workers Evade Positive Marijuana and Cocaine Tests

Quest Diagnostics shows workers may have gotten more sophisticated when it comes to passing drug tests

Tunisia's Fashion Wear: Beacon for Workers' Human Rights and Ethical Garment Production [VIDEO]

M&S and John Lewis garment producer's Mhedbi Mohsen says Bangladesh Rana Plaza Disaster has brought in new customers

The reform document was approved by the leaders' meeting after an initial communique revealed that the government promised to deliver "decisive" results by 2020. (Photo: Reuters)

China Unleashes Sweeping Economic and Social Reform Plans

Beijing focuses on property, welfare and tax and also tipped to abolish Labour camps after four-day summit.

Medicars assembles pick-up trucks for India’s Mahindra, as well as for Isuzu and Mitsubishi (Photo: Alfred Joyner, IBTimes UK)

Tunisia's Medicars Calls for Industry Reforms for Post Arab Spring Growth [VIDEO]

Medicars' Yassine Ben Abdallah talks to IBTimes UK about how Tunisia needs political stability to help growth

Britain’s biggest banks have only set aside £3bn in redress for victims of mis-sold derivatives (Photo: Reuters)

Mis-Selling Derivatives Scandal: Banks Use £3bn Redress Pot for Products Not Victims

FCA's Martin Wheatley also fails to forecast final bank bill for mis-sold swaps

Tunisia's Fashion Wear: Beacon for Ethical Garment Production

One of Tunisia's main garment producers, Fashion Wear, is a refreshing beacon for ethical clothing production after the world was rocked by the disaster at the Bangladesh's Rana Plaza complex which killed 1,100 workers.

The wave of protests and political chaos across Libya has cost the country $6bn (Photo: Reuters)

Political Chaos Costs Libya $6bn in Oil Sales

Protests at oil ports and political turmoil also results in less money for wheat imports.

Tunisia's Medicars Calls for Political Stability and Industry Reforms to Boost Economic Growth

Speaking to IBTimes UK in Sousse, Tunisia, Medicar's supply and development manager Yassine Ben Abdallah, said that the interim government needs to provide more stability in terms of nailing down National Dialogue talks.

Tunisia, which was at the epicentre of the January 2011 revolution that ousted former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, have led to fears that the country is on the cusp of a second Arab Spring as rising dissent over the seemingly immovable interim gover

Tunisia Battles to Silence Arab Spring Echoes of Unrest and Jihadism

Lianna Brinded delivers on-the-ground special report from the cradle of the Arab Spring and ponders its future.

Centrica shares have plunged in the opening session after it warned earnings will not grow in 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

Centrica Shares Slammed on 2013 Earnings Warning

Centrica's stock price falls in the opening session as company warns of lack of earnings.

Serco has warned investors that its 2014 profits will be hit following the investigations by the government and City of London police into suspicions of fraud (Photo: Reuters)

Serco Warns of 2014 Profit Hit on Contract Fraud Investigations

Serco Chief Executive Christopher Hyman quit his role amid investigations. Shares tumble by nearly 8%

Italy Probes Apple for 'Hiding' €1bn in Tax Avoidance Plan

Italian authorities launched an investigation in tech giant's 2010 and 2011 tax declarations

Typhoon Haiyan has left over half a million people displaced and billions in damages (Photo: Reuters)

Typhoon Haiyan to Create $19bn in Philippines Economic Losses

Philippine President Benigno Aquino says death toll has risen above 10,000.

Why are the banks paying billions to PPI victims but not those who were mis-sold derivatives (Photos: Reuters)

Mis-Selling Derivatives vs PPI Scandal: IRSA Payouts a Bitter Disappointment

We ask why banks pay billions to PPI 'victims' but not to those who were mis-sold derivatives.

Woman Tries to Smuggle €52,000 In Packets of Biscuits (Photo: Reuters)

Woman Tries to Smuggle €52,000 In Biscuit Packets

Italian police say French woman tried to smuggle euros in packets of biscuits from Switzerland