By: Clara Guibourg

Clara Guibourg is an Online Writer at City A.M. She can be contacted at clara.guibourg@cityam.com. She is particularly passionate about women in business, technology and telecoms.

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Office Christmas party etiquette: One in four UK employees have vowed to drink less this year for fear of embarrassing themselves or flirting with a colleague

November 26, 2015

Deck the halls and so forth, the Christmas season is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: the City is gearing up for this year’s office Christmas bashes and (for some) the crippling shame that follows them. The office Christmas party is inevitably a messy affair, and it seems UK employees are worried [...]
Man falls to death from fifth floor at Bracken House on Friday Street

November 26, 2015

A man has fallen to his death at the City offices of a bank near Cannon Street. The 42-year-old man, an employee at Mizuho Bank, fell from the fifth floor of Mizuho’s London base at Bracken House on Friday Street. City of London police confirmed that emergency services were called to the spot at 4.05pm, [...]
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 travel deals and cheap flights: Discounts on ski holidays, Mediterranean cruises London hotels and Los Angeles flights

November 26, 2015

The shopping deals we’ve all been waiting for are upon us. Yes, Black Friday is here at last, and the travel industry is getting in on the action. After all, whether you’re planning to brave the crowds of the high street, or the crashing websites of online retailers buckling under the strain, when it’s all [...]
Autumn Statement 2015: It’s now time for George Osborne to deliver on the tax cut pledge

November 26, 2015

It's a tried and tested rhetorical technique: when you have bad news, make out that it’s far worse than it actually is. Lower expectations. Create a sense of doom. And then reveal to your neighbours that, actually, their dog’s not dead – the whining little mutt has only broken its leg. George Osborne had been [...]
UK oil and gas: Confidence in the North Sea oil industry plummets to all-time low

November 26, 2015

More woes for UK oil, as a new industry report shows confidence in the embattled North Sea oil and gas industry plunging to a new record low. Four in five contractors feel less confident about their prospects now than they did last year, according to the latest Oil and Gas Survey. Unsurprising, perhaps, considering the [...]
Autumn Statement 2015: George Osborne bails himself out with a u-turn on tax credit cuts

November 25, 2015

George Osborne rowed back on controversial and unpopular cuts to tax credits – but admitted that the U-turn will be offset by an £11.6bn raid on British businesses. The chancellor also avoided potential pitfalls such as having to make cuts to the police force, after an unexpected £53.2bn jump in expected tax receipts over the course of [...]
Consumers don’t trust UK businesses to keep their data safe from cybercrime after TalkTalk, Carphone Warehouse and Ashley Madison hacks

November 25, 2015

From TalkTalk to Carphone Warehouse and Ashley Madison, massive hacks have hardly been out of the spotlight this autumn. It now appears that the constant stream of highly-publicised data breaches have begun taking their toll on UK businesses’ reputation with consumers. Three in four Brits no longer believe that organisations and companies will ever be [...]
Lloyds Banking Group to cut 1,000 jobs as restructure continues

November 25, 2015

Lloyds Banking Group is slashing another 1,000 jobs tomorrow, as part of the bank's plans to restructure to a more digital focus. The bank will be officially announcing the job cuts, which will be spread across all operations, tomorrow according to sources to Sky News. The state-backed banking group set a target to reduce its [...]
Autumn Statement 2015: Why the Government Digital Services needs a boost from George Osborne

November 25, 2015

Pity the bureaucrats this morning. Civil servants across Whitehall have been asked to impose more major cuts to departmental spending. BIS faces a cut of 17 per cent by 2020, while Transport will lose 37 per cent. Others, however, have been spared – some quite unexpectedly. The Arts Council’s budget will be increased, in spite [...]
Black Friday 2015 is about more than just John Lewis, Tesco, and Amazon: Small businesses getting in on the shopping frenzy through eBay

November 25, 2015

Brace yourselves: there are now less than 48 hours to go until the year’s biggest shopping frenzy hits, with UK shoppers predicted to part with a record-smashing £1bn this Black Friday. Retail giants like John Lewis, Asda, Tesco and Amazon may be reaping the biggest rewards from the massive Black Friday sales spike – but [...]

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