Recruitment surges for employment lawyers as businesses worry about worker rights overhaul Legal Law firms are actively seeking to bulk out their practices as the pending employment law overhaul drives uncertainty at businesses
Mark Kleinman: Fintech Growth Fund’s journey ends in Octopus’s tentacles Business Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Fintech Growth Fund’s journey ends in Octopus’s tentacles It could scarcely have augured more favourably. An investment fund whose creation was recommended by the City grandee Sir Ron Kalifa in his 2021 review of the UK [...]
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Mark Kleinman: CMA revamp to spur boom for M&A bankers March 20, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. This week, he tackles changes at the CMA, Achilles’ new target, and a logistics funding boost. Will there even be a competition regulator at this rate? After this week’s latest summons to Downing Street for a [...]
I’m sorry Ed Miliband, your big green energy plan is all fantasy February 12, 2025 Ed Miliband's green vision is admirable, but the history of energy consumption shows it is but a fantasy, writes Paul Ormerod.
Mark Kleinman: Kicking the Abbey habit may be harder than it looks for Botin January 23, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. This week, he looks at Santander shifts, a tale of two cities in banking and a canary in the Poundland coalmine Kicking the Abbey habit may be harder than it looks for Botin Is this the [...]
Bankrupted Alpha Insurance hits Zurich Insurance with lawsuit October 21, 2024 A bankrupted Danish insurance company has launched legal action in the English High Court against insurance giant Zurich
Treasury and FCA worried by payments regulator’s fraud refund scheme August 22, 2024 The government and City watchdog have raised concerns over a fraud refund scheme from the UK payments regulator that firms have warned could do long-lasting damage to the industry, City A.M. understands.
‘We have to rethink the narrative’: Mariana Mazzucato on how Labour should address an era of crisis July 17, 2024 Still, Keir Starmer was elected on a platform of change and, as Milton Friedman once said, "only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change." For Friedman, a government's response depended on the ideas that are "lying around".
Sun, sea and Slack: As many Brits plan to work from abroad – what are the actual rules? July 13, 2024 Millions of British workers will be planning to 'work from the beach' this Summer. But what are the rules around working from outside of the UK