Reeves seeks to spark retail investor revolution July 15, 2025 High street banks Barclays and Lloyds will lead an advertising campaign to encourage more Brits into retail investing as part of a wider effort to get savers to boost the UK economy. In rallying calls to financial services, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled a campaign to encourage savers to invest in stocks and bonds, drawing [...]
Exclusive: Revolut, Octopus mull joining Pisces July 2, 2025 Revolut, Octopus and Oaknorth are among billion-pound businesses weighing joining the new Pisces private stock market after being courted by prospective operator London Stock Exchange Group, City AM can reveal. The fast-growing firms were part of a group of around two dozen major businesses who attended a private conference hosted by LSE boss Julia Hoggett [...]
Astrazeneca chief ‘wants to shift London listing to US’ July 1, 2025 The boss of Britain’s most valuable company, Astrazeneca, has reportedly voiced his preference to move the firm’s stock market listing to the United States. Sir Pascal Soriot, who has been at the helm of the pharma juggernaut since 2012, is said to have spoken privately about his desire to abandon the UK listing in favour [...]
Metro Bank receives private equity-backed takeover interest June 14, 2025 High street lender Metro Bank has been approached for a takeover which could take it off the London Stock Exchange, Sky News has reported. Bosses at Metro Bank have reportedly been approached in the last two weeks by private equity firm Pollen Street about an offer to take it private. The takeover would follow a [...]
Mark Kleinman: Corley’s LSEG board post looks messy June 5, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Aren’t asset managers supposed to be the exemplars of robust corporate governance? It’s a question worth posing in the context of goings-on at Schroders, the FTSE-100 money manager where last week’s confirmation of my scoop that [...]
Monzo: Fintech unicorn tops £1bn in revenue on road to landmark IPO June 2, 2025 UK fintech giant Monzo reported its second consecutive year of profitability on Monday after the neobank’s revenue climbed above £1bn for the first time. The firm’s revenue increased 48 per cent to £1.2bn as it reported huge expansion across business arms amid rising expectations for a London flotation in the coming months. Customer deposits jumped [...]
London still ‘second most attractive market’ for dealmaking post-Brexit May 7, 2025 The UK saw the second highest level of dealmaking between 2018 and 2024, new research has suggested, reflecting London’s status as a key financial hub despite claims its status would be reduced post-Brexit. Mergers and acquisitions in the UK hit $1.14 trillion in value over six years, coming only second to the US where a [...]
London Stock Exchange Group: Equity arm continues to lose relevance May 1, 2025 London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) equity business has continued to diminish in importance, as the firm struggles to attract new IPOs to UK markets. LSEG’s market arm was actually the fastest growing part of its business in the first quarter of 2025, but not due to the London Stock Exchange itself, the firm revealed in [...]
UK-India trade deal reportedly 90 per cent agreed, businesses told April 10, 2025 The UK’s trade deal with India is reportedly 90 per cent agreed, businesses have been told, according to a report in the Guardian. Firms were informed on a call with trade negotiators this week that some remaining issues included cars, pharmaceutical drugs and the whisky trade, the newspaper reported, with India currently the largest overseas [...]
Workers rights: Don’t let ‘rogue’ firms undercut good employers, MPs urge March 3, 2025 Changes to the government’s workers’ rights package should be made to ensure “rogue firms” don’t undercut Britain’s best employers, MPs have urged. The Employment Rights Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament, should have loopholes closed to avoid some companies exploiting work insecurity, the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee (BTC) has [...]