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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Will western brands return to pariah state Russia?

March 4, 2025

It was the sight that heralded a new geopolitical era. Hundreds of Russian punters standing in a disorderly queue and braving the bitter Moscow air to sample their first bite of the latest big import from America. The iron curtain – having been chipped away slowly for years – had fully fallen just two months [...]
Bosses fear workers’ rights overhaul more than National Insurance hike

March 3, 2025

Employers are more worried about the government’s upcoming reforms to workers’ rights than the widely condemned National Insurance rises announced in the October Budget, a fresh poll has revealed. More than a third (34 per cent) of bosses cited the far-reaching overhaul to employment rights as the biggest challenge facing their organisation in 2025 despite [...]
Reeves urged to ‘urgently’ unlock pension capital to boost pre-IPO firms

February 28, 2025

Rachel Reeves should use the multibillion pound surplus in public sector pensions to give the UK’s most-promising scale ups crucial capital that will prevent them from listing abroad, a top accounting firm has said. Blick Rothenberg issued a rallying cry to the Chancellor to use her upcoming Spring Statement to lend some much-needed support the [...]
London Stock Exchange owner downplays extent of listing exodus

February 27, 2025

The owner of the London Stock Exchange dismissed the gloom that is plaguing London’s public markets, pointing to its solid performance relative to European counterparts. Speaking alongside his firm’s full-year results, David Schwimmer, the veteran boss of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), reiterated his view that UK IPOs would pick up this year, saying [...]
Ratcliffe calls on Europe to ditch carbon tax to save chemicals industry

February 26, 2025

Sir Jim Ratcliffe has warned that Europe’s chemicals industry “faces extinction” and called on European Union leaders to ditch their carbon tax and increase tariffs to preserve it. In an open letter published on Wednesday, the founder and owner of chemicals giant Ineos launched an excoriating assessment of the EU’s approach to the chemicals sector, [...]
BP ramps up fossil fuel spending and rows back on green targets

February 26, 2025

BP will dial up its spending on oil and gas by $10bn (£7.9bn), slash its investment into renewable energy and offload $20bn of underperforming assets as part of a major strategic overhaul that aims to boost its beleaguered share price. In a much anticipated – and delayed – announcement from boss Murray Auchincloss, the British [...]
‘We will not give in’: Farmer tax fury is not going away

February 26, 2025

Gripping his lectern on stage in Birmingham, Keir Starmer was attempting to win over the ever-sceptical delegates at the National Farmers’ Union congress. The then-leader of the opposition told attendees of the 2023 iteration of the annual jamboree that he understood their pain, and promised to reset government relations with farming were he fortunate enough [...]
Andy Haldane steps back from role at RSA

February 21, 2025

Andy Haldane is stepping down from his role as chief executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA) to take a career break. The former chief economist at the Bank of England will stay on at the charity, one of the UK’s leading arts and innovation third sector bodies, until half-way through [...]
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 [...]

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