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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Trump turbulence endangering global ‘soft landing’, BIS warns

March 11, 2025

The economic convulsions wrought by Donald Trump’s volatile tariff announcements and swingeing public sector job cuts are threatening hopes of a soft landing after years of inflation, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has said. The BIS, known widely as the ‘central bank of central banks’, warned in its latest global report that while it [...]
Deloitte names new UK financial services lead

March 11, 2025

Deloitte has appointed consulting veteran Suresh Kanwar to head up its financial services division in the UK and join its executive committee. Kanwar previously led the audit and consultancy behemoth’s banking and capital markets team, and his new new role makes him one of the 13 most senior figures in Deloitte’s 27,000-strong army of UK [...]
KPMG to merge dozens of markets in major overhaul

March 10, 2025

Big Four audit giant KPMG will merge dozens of its national partnerships in an attempt to accelerate growth and minimise audit scandals. The move to integrate its panoply of businesses, each of which is owned by the respective partners in each jurisdiction, represents one of the most significant shake-ups at a major professional services network [...]
Households feeling poorer despite wealth jump

March 7, 2025

Six in ten UK households do not feel financially comfortable despite their wealth having risen by an average of 12 per cent in the last year thanks to better savings rates and good investment performance. According to a fresh study looking at wealth across Britain, the mean household has seen its assets – spanning savings, [...]
Treasury to shelve plans for VAT on funds

March 7, 2025

Ministers are looking to block a proposal from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to apply VAT to investment funds following warnings from City bosses. According to a report in the Financial Times, the customs body had been trying to end the carve-out that allowed third-party fund management operations to be free from the 20 per [...]
Rate-setter calls on Bank of England to adopt ‘activist’ approach to rates

March 6, 2025

The Bank of England should adopt a more activist approach to setting interest rates in order to deal with the “substantial volatility” affecting geopolitics and financial markets, a rate-setter has said. Catherine Mann, an external member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), argued that rate-setters should be more willing to vote for more radical [...]
European bond rout worsens ahead of pivotal defence summit

March 6, 2025

European bond yields continued to climb on Thursday as traders weighed expectations of higher borrowing from major European economies, which is expected to boost defence spending. German bonds suffered their worst day since the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Wednesday, after soon-to-be Chancellor Friedrich Merz laid out a bumper package [...]
Profit slumps at Page Group and Robert Walters as jobs market collapses

March 6, 2025

The slowing jobs market has forced two of the UK’s largest recruiters to reveal painful last-year performances in which profit and revenue nosedived. Page Group and Robert Walters both posted double-digit falls in overall revenue for the year ended 31 December. The latter’s earnings plunged 16 per cent to £892m, while Page Group’s dropped 13.5 [...]
Schroders to bear down on costs in major strategic overhaul

March 6, 2025

Storied investment giant Schroders has unveiled a new three-year strategy alongside its full year results in an attempt to attract new business and and reign in spiralling costs. The FTSE 100 investor has promised to deliver £150m of annual net cost savings, of which it claims to have already delivered £20m in the first three [...]
Digital nomads costing UK economy £3bn a year

March 6, 2025

The UK is missing out on over £3bn of consumer spending and £320m of lost VAT a year because of the rising popularity of ‘digital nomad’ schemes among British citizens. According to a fresh study from Public First, the modish regimes – which promise professionals long-term work visas without having to become fully-fledged tax residents [...]

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