Will CO2 rules choke car industry profits? November 12, 2019 | City Talk Europe’s car industry needs to tackle the huge challenge posed by new emissions regulations. But for those who do, it’s a major opportunity. The commitment to limit global warming to 2 degrees is the greatest challenge of our time. If we’re going to meet it then we need to cut harmful emissions from industry, and [...]
What now as monetary policy runs its course? November 12, 2019 | City Talk The UK looks set to reverse the course of austerity with all parties planning to ramp-up spending as the reality of a huge Brexit upheaval puts the pressure on both the treasury and Bank of England. However, despite the recovery seen in the post-2008 world, we have seen little upside in terms of interest rates [...]
The rising abuse of short-selling tactics could have severe consequences on healthy businesses November 12, 2019 Share prices have always been subject to manipulation. The “pump and dump” phenomenon in penny shares has been such a common risk that many people avoid buying such volatile stocks to this day. Layers of legislation and regulation have been designed and policed to prevent companies and brokers from this kind of activity — broadly [...]
Time for firms to menopause for thought November 12, 2019 From 12-month statutory maternity leave to tackling the gender pay gap, the Labour party unveiled a package of proposals last week to transform the workplace for women. Among the lesser reported is a requirement that large employers have a menopause workplace policy in place. It is a positive sign that we are finally seeing politicians [...]
Meet our City A.M. PA Awards Judges – Leonid Shutov November 11, 2019 Leonid Shutov is the owner and CEO of Bob Bob Ricard and Bob Bob Cité Bob Bob Cité opened in the summer of this year after much anticipation – how have your first few months been? Very busy and very exciting – there is always much to do when a restaurant first opens. We have [...]
Meet our City A.M. PA Awards Judges – Lucy Chamberlain November 11, 2019 Lucy Chamberlain is the founder of C&C Search. In what ways do you deliver socially conscious business? We have a mission to give back, think locally, minimize hard, reduce our carbon footprint and collaborate with likeminded businesses and organisations. Its also about how we do business every day, it is about making choices aligned with [...]
Meet our City A.M. PA Awards Judges – Alice Scutchey November 11, 2019 Alice Scutchey is a Senior Executive Assistant at Citi and the founder and director of the Canary Wharf PA Club. What made you decide to set up the Canary Wharf PA Club? I launched an internal network a couple of years ago but decided to expand on this idea when I returned from maternity leave [...]
Floating on Airbnb: We meet the founder who is taking the hassle out of hosting November 11, 2019 When James Jenkins-Yates rented out his London home via Airbnb while he went on holiday to Rome, it was a complete disaster. “Everything went wrong,” he tells me. “I had three back-to-back bookings over the week and guests were everywhere — I received calls at 3am, one guest couldn’t get in through the gate, cleaners [...]
Want healthy, happy staff? Treat them like plants November 11, 2019 When imagining a tech company’s office, the first thing that comes to mind is not usually a bright, green, collaborative working environment. If you think about cyber security, the associated images are even worse. Who doesn’t immediately picture a faceless hacker with their hood up, typing on a keyboard in a poorly lit basement room? [...]
Woodford protege Mark Barnett reassures investors after fund rating downgrades November 9, 2019 Invesco’s top fund manager in the UK Mark Barnett has apologised to investors after a fund rating agency raised concerns over the performance and liquidity of his investments. Barnett, who previously worked under Neil Woodford before he left to start is own business six years ago, has defended the performance of his funds after consultants [...]
