By: Chris Dorrell

Chris Dorrell is a freelance journalist and City AM contributor. He was previously City AM's banking and then economics reporter. When Chris is not breaking news, he can often be found playing with his band Totally Amorphous.

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Gresham House to be taken private in £470m deal with US-based Searchlight Capital

July 17, 2023

Gresham House will become the latest UK-listed firm to be taken private after agreeing a £470m deal with US-based private equity company Searchlight Capital. Shareholders in the AIM-listed fund manager, which invests in assets such as forestry and solar farms, will receive 1,105p per share, a premium of 63 per cent to its closing price [...]
Trustpilot flies in former Just Eat exec who took it into FTSE 100 as its new CEO

July 17, 2023

Trustpilot has appointed Adrian Blair as its new chief executive, replacing founder and CEO Peter Holten Mühlmann. Blair will join from Cera, the digital health company, where he was chief business officer. In this role he was responsible for engineering and data at the firm. Before Cera, Blair was chief executive at accounting automation platform [...]
Investment banking slowdown set to hit Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley results this week

July 17, 2023

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will likely report another slowdown in profit on Wednesday and Tuesday respectively amid a continued slump in global dealmaking. Analysts at JP Morgan reduced their earnings per share estimates for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on “lower IB revenues…with limited cost offset”. The analysts cut Goldman Sachs’s EPS for the [...]
Standard Chartered sells up in sub-Saharan African and turns to faster-growing markets like Saudi and Egypt

July 14, 2023

Standard Chartered announced today that it would sell its subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa to Nigeria-based Access Bank. The bank will sell its stake in subsidiaries in Angola, Cameroon, Gambia and Sierra Leona as well as its consumer, private & business bank in Tanzania to Access Bank. “Access Bank will provide a full range of banking [...]
Wells Fargo beats expectations thanks to rising rates as Citi’s profits fall 36 per cent on dealmaking slowdown

July 14, 2023

Citi struggled with rising costs and falling fees in the second quarter while its Wall Street rival Wells Fargo benefitted from higher interest rates. Citi saw its profit fall 36 per cent year on year as it was hit by the global decline in dealmaking, but its performance was still better than analysts had predicted [...]
JP Morgan profits jump as bank benefits from rising rates – but boss Jamie Dimon warns of ‘salient risk’

July 14, 2023

JP Morgan beat expectations again as it reaped the rewards of rising interest rates and its takeover of First Republic, but the bank boosted loss provisions significantly. In the second quarter, the Wall Street giant recorded net income of $14.5bn, 67 per cent higher than last year and ahead of analyst expectations. Its shares were [...]
Pound surges to strongest level since April last year as traders bet on further rate hikes

July 14, 2023

The pound has surged to its strongest position in over a year over the past week as traders bet the Bank of England will have to hike rates further and faster than global counterparts. Since the beginning of the month, the pound has risen from below $1.27 to trade at over $1.31. The last time [...]
FTSE 100 close: London’s premier index creeps into the green ahead of crucial inflation print on Wednesday

July 14, 2023

London’s premier index closed the week slightly in the green after a quiet day ahead of next week’s crucial inflation print. The FTSE 100 slipped out marginal gains to trade at 7,440.65 while the midcap FTSE 250 index dropped 0.2 per cent to 18,594.73. All eyes will be on UK inflation data next week. Inflation [...]
Shares in Liontrust and Ashmore fall as money managers grapple with ‘challenging economic environment’

July 14, 2023

Shares in FTSE-250 listed money managers Liontrust and Ashmore slumped on Friday morning after both reported fund outflows over the past three months. Liontrust saw net outflows of £1.6bn in the last quarter as it prepares to acquire GAM Holding. Its assets under management (AuM) stood at £29.5bn at June 30, a decrease of six [...]
Cash still king in the City compared to rest of London but amount withdrawn almost halves

July 13, 2023

Westminster and the City remained London’s biggest centres for cash withdrawals but saw a near halving in the amount of cash withdrawn over the past four years. According to figures from LINK, which operates the interbank network, the amount of cash withdrawals from the City and Westminster fell to £55m in May 2023, 49 per [...]

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