City gender parity ‘a long way off’ as women make up under a quarter of top promotions May 30, 2022 Women made up less than a quarter of top promotions in financial services businesses in the past year in a sign the City is making slow progress towards gender parity, new data has revealed.
Trustly snaps up Ecospend in UK open banking push May 29, 2022 Swedish open banking firm Trustly has snapped up British rival Ecospend this week as it looks to ramp up its presence in the UK.
Nationwide boss takes aim at rivals over bank branch closures May 29, 2022 The outgoing chief executive of Nationwide Building Society has taken aim at rivals for shuttering swathes of branches around the country, as he doubled down on the firm's commitment to maintaining its high street presence.
Trading app Robinhood settles class action lawsuit over 2020 outages May 28, 2022 Stock market trading app Robinhood has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit, over claims outages on its app cased investors to lose money during a period of pandemic-related stock market volatility. The lawsuit comes after retail investors flocked to the app in the midst of the pandemic, in their efforts to battle hedge [...]
Ex-banker turned GoCardless president Paul Stoddart talks fintech, Brexit, pandemic recovery and Russia May 28, 2022 At the start of this month, Paul Stoddart jumped ship to become the president of the newly-minted fintech unicorn GoCardless. Stoddart, who describes himself as a “banker by trade,” spent years at Natwest, Barclays, and was most recently the chairman of Mastercard’s VocaLink. In an exclusive interview with City A.M., Stoddart said that joining GoCardless [...]
Former executive suing UK branch of Canadian bank for £800,000 over discrimination claims May 27, 2022 The UK branch of a major Canadian bank is facing an £800,000 discrimination lawsuit from a former executive accusing it of discrimination. Zhuofang Wei is suing Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) over claims it operated a hostile and discriminatory environment for women. The bank, which strongly denies all claims, dismissed her in Match 2020. [...]
NatWest offers customers chance to win £1,000 this summer via ’round up’ feature May 27, 2022 People saving with NatWest could win £1,000 this summer if they turn on a “round ups” feature on their account. The bank said it will award 10 customers £1,000 each. The round ups feature rounds up the cost of a purchase to the nearest pound and the spare change is automatically paid into a chosen [...]
Exclusive: KPMG to hire 3,500 tech workers to staff newly launched digital products business May 27, 2022 KPMG today launched a new digital solutions business which is set to see the firm more than double the size of its 3,000 strong technology focused workforce by hiring 3,500 new data scientists and engineers. The UK arm of the Big Four firm said it plans to create 1,000 London tech jobs, in its efforts [...]
Klarna pulling back from growth to focus on profits, boss says May 26, 2022 Buy-now pay-later giant Klarna is shifting away from a high-growth strategy to focus on a fast-track route to profitability, boss Sebastian Siemiatkowski said today.
Cineworld, ASOS and Boohoo: The 10 most shorted LSE stocks and the City fund managers that go after them May 25, 2022 Cineworld Group, the world’s second-largest cinema chain, is currently the most shorted UK listed company, according to the most up-to-date London Stock Exchange data. Some 8.2 per cent of its stock was held short by five investment firms, with New Holland Capital LLC holding the largest short position with 2.4 per cent of the company’s [...]