The Crime Lord: Peter Capaldi on the manosphere, London and rocking out with his band as he approaches 70
A gender equality lesson for the new cabinet from the world of academia July 31, 2019 There has been much discussion on the gender and ethnic composition of Boris Johnson’s cabinet. The Channel 4 Fact Check site calculates that 33 MPs are entitled to attend cabinet. Of these, six – 18 per cent – are from an ethnic minority background. According to the 2011 Census, 14 per cent of the UK [...]
Female founders, here’s my advice for starting a business July 30, 2019 To any female founders reading this: your existence is statistically remarkable. Female tech founders are, simply put, unlikely. A report from the venture capital firm Atomico found that 93 per cent of money invested in European tech startups in 2018 went to all-male founding teams. Only seven per cent went to startups with a single [...]
Stop all that corporate drivel and get to the point July 29, 2019 Lots of recent heavy-duty research suggests that millennials and generation Z are different from other consumers. According to such studies, these younger generations care more about ethical issues and the environment, they want to know what their pensions and investments are being used for, and they want to buy from companies that have a higher [...]
DEBATE: Has ‘diversity’ become a dirty word in the tech industry? July 29, 2019 Has ‘diversity’ become a dirty word in the tech industry? Philippa Sturt, managing partner at Joelson, says YES. The term “diversity” has become so prevalent in the tech sector that it has lost a lot of its impact, especially when it comes to gender. In the venture capital industry, for example, investors are being encouraged [...]
Want to clock off early? You’re not alone July 26, 2019 As the capital reaches record temperatures, many City workers would likely jump at the chance to be able to work when it suits them. Frolicking outside in the sunshine probably sounds far more appealing than being stuck in a stuffy office. But even though it has been a legal right for employees to request flexible [...]
Tradeweb’s CEO on tech, China, and modernising bond markets July 24, 2019 While researching Lee Olesky, the co-founder and chief executive of the fixed-income market platform Tradeweb, I came across an article comparing him to Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos. Both started their companies in the nineties. Both set out to use the internet and ecommerce to disrupt their respective industries at a time when the idea of [...]
Is India the world’s future investment hub? July 23, 2019 | City Talk Could the investment profession's future be in India?
Going on holiday is a chance for a much-needed screen-break, so feast your ears on these podcasts instead July 23, 2019 Just admit it, we are totally dependent on our digital devices. People in the UK now check their smartphones, on average, every 12 minutes of the waking day, according to a worrying 2018 report from media watchdog Ofcom. This is likely to be even worse for business people, with a deluge of emails tiring our [...]
London needs a new type of university with a new degree July 22, 2019 London is fortunate to have some of the world’s best universities. Within a mile or two of the City are four of the top 40 universities in the world. For decades, recruiters in big firms have taken a university degree as a signal for a graduate’s ability to master a subject, write well, and fit [...]
Game of drones: The founder of SenSat on solving construction problems by simulating reality July 22, 2019 “The internet connects all human knowledge, and for the first time in history, we can connect that human knowledge to the actual world we live in through our computers.” It’s at this point during my conversation with James Dean, the cooly-named co-founder of SenSat, that I start to grasp how ground-breaking his technology really is. [...]