By: Ali Lyon

chief reporter Ali Lyon is the chief reporter at City AM, responsible for covering the full gamut of business, finance and wealth news. He has been at City AM full-time since July 2024. Get in touch with tips via email: ali.lyon@cityam.com. Follow Ali on X: @alilyon_94

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Luton Airport expansion gets go-ahead

April 3, 2025

Luton Airport’s major expansion has been given the green light by ministers, who overruled advice from planners to reject the project until it met certain environmental conditions. The approval, granted by transport secretary Heidi Alexander, means the north London hub can break ground on construction work that will see it add a new terminal and [...]
ICC boss: Tit for tat tariffs response risks return to Great Depression

April 3, 2025

A ‘tit for tat’ response to Donald Trump’s tariffs risks plunging the world into an economic slowdown redolent of the Great Depression, the head of the world’s largest trade body as warned. Speaking to City AM, John Denton, secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), cautioned world leaders that any “thoughtless and knee [...]
Bank of England fines financier Jay Hambro

April 2, 2025

The Bank of England has fined banking dynasty scion Jay Hambro for his conduct during a stint as director of the Wyelands Bank, the Sanjeev Gupta-owned lender that ignominiously collapsed in 2020. The BoE’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) issued Hambro – a prominent City figure – with a £72,000 penalty on Wendesday, saying that his [...]
Aston Villa’s non-dom owner leaves UK for Italy

April 2, 2025

The billionaire co-owner of Aston Villa football club has become the latest wealthy foreigner to leave the UK in response to the government’s decision to abolish the non-dom regime. According to registry filings, Nassef Sawiris, Egypt’s richest man, is now a resident of Italy. He previously lived in the UK and claimed the country’s generous [...]
London is world’s fourth-most dynamic city

April 1, 2025

London is in the top five cities for companies to lay down roots, a fresh study has found, despite the UK suffering years of economic stagnation and reports of an exodus of its wealthiest and high-skilled residents. According to Savills’ inaugural corporate dynamic wealth index, London is the fourth-best location in the world for major [...]
Probe launched into ONS governance and data quality

April 1, 2025

The government has launched an independent investigation into the UK’s beleaguered statistics watchdog to ascertain how its official data and surveys have become so unreliable. The remit of the probe – commissioned by the Cabinet Office and UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) – will span the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) culture, leadership and structure, and [...]
British firms brace for ‘eye-watering’ April cost hikes

April 1, 2025

Businesses across the UK are bracing for one of the worst weeks of cost hikes in recent history, with industry groups warning that the “eye-watering” rise in firms’ overheads will hamper investment and hiring, and result in higher prices at the till. Hikes to the minimum wage and employers’ National Insurance contributions announced in October’s [...]
Boss of Mirror publisher quits to join Jockey Club

March 31, 2025

The boss of news publisher Reach has left with immediate effect for a new role at the Jockey Club, the UK’s largest commercial horseracing organisation. Jim Mullen, who has been chief executive at the owner of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star since 2019, is leaving by “mutual agreement”, the firm’s board said [...]
Why are we all saving so much?

March 30, 2025

It’s a question that has been puzzling economists for months. The worst of the cost-of-living crisis is, for most households, moving further into their rear-view mirror. The Bank of England’s rate setters have successfully – if belatedly – reined in the worst of the inflation that caused so many households to tighten their belts after [...]
Mark Kleinman: Monzo chief lands windfall amid listing debate

March 27, 2025

Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. This week, he tackles a nice payday for the Monzo boss, an unlikely friendship, and the great British export that is the Premier League. Bravery or foolhardiness? Klarna’s decision to press the button on a US initial [...]

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