CA daily briefing: Tuesday 26 January

Your essential briefing of the morning's top news stories.
Good morning, Andrew Harbison here to give you today's latest news and updates.
The latest from ICAS
ICAS has launched Championing Unique Perspectives - a new campaign profiling its diverse membership and building awareness and possible solutions on the key themes of equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) integrating them into working practices. Find out more and learn how to join the conversations.
Today's top stories from around the web
- UK unemployment rate continues to rise (BBC News)
- Test and Trace slammed for tweaking counting method to boost stats (City AM)
- London and New York financial services treated the same, EU says (Reuters)
- EU turns the screws on bankers clinging to their London desks (Bloomberg)
- Debenhams deal and Topshop talks put more than 20,000 jobs at risk (The Guardian)
- Self-assessment taxpayers given extra month to file returns (Sky News)
- Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary (BBC News)
- Top official warns of 'disturbing' amount of Russian money laundering in UK (City AM)
- UBS plans $4.5bn buyback after wealth management surge (Bloomberg)
- UK supermarkets not doing enough to cut plastic use, says report (The Guardian)
That's all for today. Check back tomorrow for your Wednesday briefing.