Cask to Cash: Maximising Returns on Whisky Investment November 20, 2025 Whisky cask investing is a long-term strategy and requires careful consideration of your financial goals. It’s advised you find a transparent partner as the market can often seem opaque. Thomas White, Chief Operating Officer of Tomoka Fine and Rare, London’s oldest whisky investment company, told City AM that any potential investor should consult an expert [...]
Balancing motherhood and an Executive MBA: A Student’s Guide to Making It Work November 18, 2025 When Executive MBA student Rachel Knox discovered she was pregnant just three months into the programme, she suddenly found herself navigating one of the most demanding combinations imaginable: postgraduate study, a high-pressure career and impending motherhood. Instead of stepping back, Rachel embraced the challenge and in doing so uncovered just how transformative the journey could [...]
How the Bayes Executive MBA Helped an Associate Director reinvent his career November 18, 2025 How the Bayes Executive MBA Helped an Associate Director reinvent his career After nearly a decade in global banking, Isaac Phang reached a crucial moment in his career. Although firmly established at HSBC, he felt uncertain about his long-term direction and was questioning whether to remain in the sector. His decision to pursue the Executive [...]
How an Executive MBA helped one finance leader drive global growth November 18, 2025 How an Executive MBA helped one finance leader drive global growth For many professionals, an MBA represents a step toward bigger responsibilities, new sectors or entrepreneurial ambitions. For Harry Young, the decision to join the Executive MBA at Bayes Business School was inseparable from a much larger goal: helping steer his company through a phase [...]
Why Attend ADFW 2025 November 18, 2025 ADFW 2025: Engineering the Capital Network Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) is the MENA region’s premier business and investment summit, bringing together global leaders, market experts, policymakers, and investors from over 100 countries to drive impactful dialogue and collaboration. Over four transformative days, ADFW 2025 promises yet another milestone gathering of global finance’s most influential voices across five [...]
MEET THE FINALISTS November 13, 2025 Meet the 2025 Santander X Awards finalists. These nine businesses will pitch live at the National Final at Unity Place, Santander UK’s headquarters in Milton Keynes, on 13 November. This year’s panel of judges includes Mike Regnier, Santander UK Chief Executive, Claire Williams, former Williams F1 boss, and Deborah Meaden, Businesswoman and Entrepreneur. PulpaTronics PulpaTronics [...]
Skilled Labour: The Key To Unlocking £725bn UK Infrastructure Investment November 12, 2025 With Britain ready to commit £725 bn to infrastructure projects someone has to step up and be the hero to solve the crisis that is brewing. The labour market for construction is facing a serious dilemma: an ageing workforce, a shortfall of migrant skilled labour and multiple huge projects in the pipeline across the next [...]
Cask whisky investment: Why it’s the ‘Liquid Safeguard’ your portfolio needs November 12, 2025 Cask whisky has established itself as an alternative asset in recent years, offering investors a tangible product that matures over time and has seen surging global demand, while acting as a hedge against risk assets. Speaking to City AM Studios, Daniel Walker, chief executive of London’s oldest whisky investment firm, Tomoka Fine and Rare, explains [...]
Financial Education Is Broken – Here’s How We Plan To Fix It November 11, 2025 Financial education in the UK is broken. Most young people leave school without the key money skills they need for adult life, according to their own teachers. Left unaddressed, this failure has long-term consequences. Poor money skills are linked to problem debt, lower social mobility, and poorer mental health. The recent announcement that financial education will be [...]
This Could Be The Best Investment The City Ever Makes November 11, 2025 Go into a primary school today and ask how many of them trust major financial institutions like banks and you’ll generally find that less than half do so. Sometimes it’s as low as one-third of the class. At least, that’s what the financial education charity I volunteer with, City Pay it Forward, has consistently found. [...]