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(ShareCast News) - Sir Michael Hintze, hedge fund tycoon and top Conservative party donor, is close to donating a large sum to the EU Out camp in what would be a big boost for the eurosceptic movement. Downing Street and senior pro-EU Tory officials have been concerned for some time that wealthy hedge fund figures, many of whom are eurosceptic, could pour money into the Brexit campaign, boosting its resources ahead of a referendum due by 2017. - Financial Times Hackers are feared to have accessed the bank details of nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers days after a mass breach of systems at TalkTalk. The mobile phone company said that details of 1,827 accounts had been stolen from "an unknown source", potentially providing criminals with customers' names, mobile numbers, sort codes and the last four digits of their bank accounts. The company said that customers were open to fraud after the hacking. - The TimesHigh street retailers could have to stump up an extra £14bn by 2020 to meet a swathe of new tax changes and initiatives introduced by George Osborne. With the country's retailers already grappling with significant structural challenges, the burden of paying business rates, the chancellor's national living wage and apprenticeship levy proposals mean that their costs will soar. - The TimesThe CBI is facing an embarrassing investigation by the British Polling Council, amid claims that its survey showing that eight out of ten businesses supported staying in the EU was rigged. Vote Leave, one of the groups campaigning for Brexit, will write to the council this morning asking it to investigate "serious violations" of the council's rules by YouGov, which conducted the poll in 2013 for the CBI. - The TimesTurkey's ruling AK party surged to victory in national elections on Sunday in a triumph for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his setback at the polls five months ago. With more than 99% of the votes counted by late evening, the AKP had secured a clear majority of parliamentary seats, more than reversing the losses it suffered in a previous election in June. - Financial Times