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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Workers’ rights: A third of small firms plan to cut jobs

February 20, 2025

A third of small businesses expect to cut jobs in the near future due to fears that the government’s upcoming workers’ rights package will leave them facing painful tribunals and a higher sick pay bill. A fresh survey from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) shows that in the fourth quarter of last year, 33 [...]
UK government should be more like Trump, says top entrepreneur

February 19, 2025

The government’s tax squeeze on businesses and ministers’ lack of private sector experience shows that the “political system is broken” in the UK, a top entrepreneur has claimed. Edward Lovett, founder of luxury online auction house The Collecting Group, launched a damning assessment of the business environment in Britain under Labour, telling City AM that [...]
Farmer ‘fury’ after Treasury meeting

February 18, 2025

Farmers will be angry and furious at the government’s refusal to reverse its planned changes to inheritance tax at a crunch meeting between officials and farming groups on Tuesday, the National Farmers Union president has said. Tom Bradshaw claimed ministers and civil servants “don’t care about the human impact” of the controversial tax plans announced [...]
James Howells: The man hoping to buy a rubbish dump in his search for £750m of bitcoin

February 18, 2025

In 2013, James Howells’ ex-partner threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins, now worth in excess of £750m. Having pleaded with – and sued – Newport council to let him comb through the rubbish dump where he believes it’s located, he is now considering a radical new option: buying the landfill. IT-worker James Howells [...]
Bill Browder: ‘Bad bet’ to return to Russia after ceasefire

February 17, 2025

Firms that choose to re-open operations in Russia after a peace agreement has been reached would be “making a bad bet” and “deserve to lose their money”, a former hedge fund manager dubbed ‘Putin’s number one enemy’ has said. Speaking to City AM from the Munich Security Conference (MSC), Sir Bill Browder launched a scathing [...]
WFH: Just one in 10 Gen Z want to be in the office full-time

February 14, 2025

Only one in ten Gen Z employees want to work in the office full-time and more than half admit they are less industrious than their parents. According to a Times-led study into the generation, more than one in five respondents (21 per cent) of Gen Z, who are between 18 and 27 years old, spend [...]
Labour’s non-dom tax raid forces Castle-owning fintech founder out of the UK

February 14, 2025

The owner of a £6m castle in Kent would have set up a credit fintech employing dozens of UK workers had the reforms to the non-dom status made by “Reckless Reeves” not meant she could “no longer stay in the UK”. Reality television star Ann Kaplan Mulholland has claimed non-dom status with her cosmetic surgeon [...]
Elliott takes up £3.8bn stake in BP

February 13, 2025

Notorious activist investor Elliott Management has taken up a £3.8bn stake in BP, becoming the ailing oil major’s third-largest shareholder, according to reports. The US fund’s investment in the London-listed petrochemical giant emerged last weekend, shortly before BP reported an anaemic set of full-year results that saw its profit slump to $8.9bn (£7.9bn). The earnings [...]
City chief to warn UK has become ‘allergic to risk’

February 12, 2025

The UK has become “allergic to risk”, the antidote to which “can’t come soon enough”, the City of London’s policy chair will warn in a speech today. Speaking at an annual jamboree on City policy, Chris Hayward will call for a cultural overhaul of how politicians and regulators perceive risk, and propose a slew of [...]
Musk brands Altman a ‘swindler’ after OpenAI rejects $100bn bid

February 11, 2025

Elon Musk has branded Sam Altman a “swindler”, after the OpenAI boss rejected the Tesla founder’s $97.4bn offer to buy the artificial intelligence start-up he co-founded. Musk took much of the artificial intelligence world off guard when he led a consortium to table a speculative $97.4bn (£78.5bn) bid for OpenAI, one of the world’s most [...]

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