Digital challenger Starling Bank is launching in beta March 16, 2017 A digital challenger bank founded by a former banker is a step closer to launch today. Starling bank's current account will now be available for anyone who wants to sign up to its beta testing programme. “Our vision at Starling is to give everyone in the world the opportunity to enjoy a healthy financial life. [...]
The influential Treasury Committee has launched a stinging attack on a probe into competition in retail banking November 2, 2016 An influential group of MPs has lashed out at a light-touch report into high street banking, days before the City watchdog publishes its verdict on the sector. Treasury Select Committee chair Andrew Tyrie said the failure of the Competition and Markets Authority to propose dramatic reform smacked of “complacency”, while Labour MP Rachel Reeves said the [...]
Dressage stars lead gold rush as Paralympics GB enjoy more success at Rio Games September 15, 2016 Dressage star Sophie Christiansen took her tally of Paralympic gold medals to seven as Great Britain’s equestrians led the medal charge in Rio on Thursday. Christiansen, who juggles her sporting heroics with a City career with Goldman Sachs, defended her Grade 1a championship title ahead of British team-mate Anne Dunham, who took silver. Their success, [...]
Yes, really: Strip club and lapdance tycoon Peter Stringfellow will launch an online lingerie range before Christmas August 25, 2016 Despite the launch of the Night Tube, strip club tycoon Peter Stringfellow has found a new venture outside of the nighttime economy. It will, nonetheless, maintain his interest in scantily clad women. That's right, he's launching a lingerie line. Stringfellows Collection will be on sale online for baffled boyfriends and present-stressed husbands before Christmas, though he has [...]
Just received your GCSE results? No need to get A-Levels – get into the City with these apprenticeships at Lloyds, HSBC, PwC – and a new government department August 25, 2016 Those opening their GCSE results today will, for the most part, be planning to do A-Levels next year – particularly if they have ambitions in the City. But what if you could work for one of the UK's largest finance sector organisations without suffering through another two years of academia? We've rounded up the City's [...]
City A.M.’s Rio 50: These are the 50 most marketable athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games August 3, 2016 Do you thrill to the Mobot? Or tingle when Jess Ennis-Hill ducks for the line? Perhaps it’s Usain Bolt’s signature To Di World celebration, an Andy Murray fist pump, or gymnastics doyenne Simone Biles cheekily winking during a floor routine that brings out the goose-pimples. Everyone has their favourites: those sportsmen and women who we [...]
Revealed: How West Ham owners are free to cash in on Olympic Stadium deal July 31, 2016 West Ham United’s complex deal for the Olympic Stadium, the full details of which are laid bare for the first time today, could make the football club’s wealthy owners even richer than previously thought – at the expense of the taxpayer. As the Hammers prepare to play their first match at the largely public-funded £700m [...]
No plans to sell West Ham United says Jacqueline Gold, daughter of chairman David Gold June 1, 2016 West Ham chairmen David Gold and David Sullivan have no plans to sell the club, insists Gold's daughter Jacqueline. Speaking on the City A.M. Unregulated podcast, the multimillionaire founder of Ann Summers said the pair would welcome investment into the club as it moves into the Olympic Stadium next year but were not ready to [...]
City A.M. Unregulated podcast: Ann Summers founder Jacqueline Gold on how to put sex in the City June 1, 2016 What does it take to turn a chain of seedy stores into the UK's best-known lingerie and erotica retailer? Jacqueline Gold CBE, the founder of Ann Summers, explains how she transformed the business from four shops to more than 140 locations – as well as her setbacks, including the time she received a bullet in the [...]
Ann Summers chief executive Jacqueline Gold: BHS no longer had a place on the high street May 31, 2016 The chief executive of Ann Summers has given a damning verdict on BHS, suggesting its inability to adapt to changing demands may have brought about its downfall. In an interview for the City A.M. Unregulated podcast, Jacqueline Gold said BHS' demise "shows that as a retailer we've got to be forward thinking. "We've got to take into [...]