Square Mile and Me: The Ned’s Gareth Banner on his journey to silver service February 1, 2024 Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, Gareth Banner, managing director at The Ned, talks history and hospitality in the Square Mile.
Complacent or cautious? City grandees divided on Government’s Square Mile cheerleading August 22, 2023 City grandees are divided about the pace and scope of the government’s reforms to capital markets, as pressure grows to boost the UK’s financial hub quickly. Responding to growing concerns around the state of London’s capital markets, the government has launched a slew of reviews designed to reinvigorate the City. City minister Andrew Griffith claimed [...]
The Square Mile and Me with HowdenCAP’s Mary O’Connor May 25, 2023 Each week we ask the Square Mile’s great and good to take a trip down memory lane. This week, it’s HowdenCAP’s Mary O’Connor on her time as a regulator, the insurance industry, and a well-hidden bar What was your first job? Filling jam doughnuts at the local bakery. I started at 5am! What was your [...]
Cheers to that! Square Mile to welcome five new pubs for returning City workers December 18, 2023 Surging use of the London Underground, and the Elizabeth Line in particular, has lifted demand for new hostelries
Square Mile city break: How to do London’s oldest district in style December 18, 2023 I skipped the train from Liverpool Street station on Friday, checked into the Pan Pacific and spent a weekend in the Square Mile
It’s not all banking and dealmaking, charity’s big business in the Square Mile too December 18, 2023 Philanthropy is at the heart of the City, we shouldn't play it down, writes Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli
Wagtail is the Square Mile’s most relaxed new rooftop bar March 16, 2023 There have been more Google searches for ‘London rooftop bars’ than for ‘new London bars’ this past month – and it’s still winter. It’s just one sign that the capital’s intense love-in with sky-high hedonism shows no signs of slowing. It’s a love affair that continues with Wagtail, the rooftop spot near Monument that’s about [...]
City minister pledges regulatory shake-up for the Square Mile in maiden speech November 23, 2023 The new City minister Bim Afolami took aim at cumbersome regulation in the Square Mile today as he laid out plans for a wave of rules reform in his maiden speech.
Bim Afolami: What does the Square Mile make of their new City minister? November 22, 2023 City grandees have urged new minister Bim Afolami to work with them on developing “competitive” regulation and improving entrepreneurship across the Square Mile.
Square Mile veteran set to chair medical cannabis company May 8, 2023 Kanabo Group, which creates medical cannabis, is set to announce on Tuesday that Ian Mattioli will become its new non-executive chairman.