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July 27 (Reuters) - British asset manager Schroders (SDR.L) reported a drop in first-half assets under management on Thursday, due to weaker investor sentiment amid market volatility.UK investors are playing it safe pulling $842 million from equity funds in June in favour of money market and fixed-income funds, fund network Calastone said earlier this month."Like the rest of our peers we see this to be a challenging environment, markets are volatile," Jupiter CEO Matthew Beesley told Reuters."We know that client confidence in markets is not high. With this uncertain environment...

LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) - Britain's data regulator said on Tuesday it will examine Worldcoin, a project by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman where users provide their iris scans in exchange for a digital identification and free cryptocurrency."We note the launch of WorldCoin in the UK and will be making further enquiries," a spokesperson for the Information Commissioner's Office told Reuters.Worldcoin launched on Monday with two million users from its trial, with the crypto project scaling up eyeball-scanning operations in 20 countries, including at sites in London.Described on its website as...