Your third Covid shot is coming: All you need to know about booster vaccines October 3, 2021 It seems inevitable: a third Covid shot is coming your way this Autumn. Two jabs may not give us sufficient protection, or at least not in the long term. Booster jabs are being offered as part of a ramped-up vaccine campaign in England. Some 1.5 million people will be contacted and encouraged to use the [...]
Going once, going twice: LiveAuctioneers sold to London’s ATG for $500m October 1, 2021 London-based Auction Technology Group (ATG) has snapped up the holding company of online auction business LiveAuctioneers for a dear $500m. The acquisition, for Platinum Parent, involves both cash and the issue of new shares after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) gave the deal the green light on Wednesday, The deal also features an earnout [...]
The Met advises women to hail a bus or run if they do not trust a male officer October 1, 2021 The Metropolitan Police has issued new advice for women who do not trust a male officer, which includes ‘waving a bus down’ for help or running away. In a statement released yesterday, Britain’s largest force advised women to “shout out to a passer-by, run into a house or wave a bus down”. The guidance was [...]
Accountancy boss sentenced for offering non-existent jobs in the City and Canary Wharf October 1, 2021 The director of a London-based company that offered jobs via an online recruitment website has been given a suspended sentence for his part in a fraud that saw job applicants apply for positions that didn’t exist. Wemba Akobola was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, according to a statement from the City [...]
Sit down: The CEO of the UK’s first-ever space flight regulator October 1, 2021 The UK’s recently unveiled space regulations mark a “really important milestone” for the country as an island emerging from a pandemic following Brexit, the boss of the UK’s aviation watchdog has told City A.M. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) boss Richard Moriarty – the regulator now responsible for space flight – explained fresh rules governing the [...]
Holiday-goers could fork out as much as £105m on airport drop-off fees next year October 1, 2021 Holiday-goers leaving the UK could fork out as much as £105m in airport drop-off fees once traveller numbers return to pre-pandemic levels, according to new research. Most of the country’s busiest airports charge such fees, with the average cost standing at £3.54 – while Heathrow is set to introduce a £5 fee from November, the [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile today? October 1, 2021 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. L.E.K. Consulting L.E.K. Consulting has elected its next Global Managing Partner – the top leadership position in the partnership. Based in London, Clay Heskett has been elected to the global leadership position from the management consulting firm’s [...]
City of London Corporation may U-turn on decision to remove slaver statues September 30, 2021 Statues of a slave owner and slave trader from the 18th century may remain at the City of London Corporation’s Guildhall headquarters, despite initially deciding to take them down earlier this year. The statues of Sir John Cass and William Beckford were going to be removed in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests [...]
AA: Fuel shortages hit the capital hardest as Londoners charge to nearby pumps September 30, 2021 The fuel shortages that have gripped the UK have hit London the hardest, according to the president of breakdown cover company AA. With stacking queues and empty pumps, it appears Londoners and those in the South East were the worst for panic buying. “In general terms London and the Southeast have been hit hardest and [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile today? September 30, 2021 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. GAM GAM Investments has hired a former BlackRock Director for its newly created role of Head of Global Consultant Relations. Reporting to Global Head of Institutional Solutions Jill Barber, incoming lead Mary Murphy will help build strategic [...]