By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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EU rejects Google’s antitrust offer

December 20, 2013

Google's second offer to settle the antitrust probe into its search business has not sufficiently salved EU regulators' concerns, and has been rejected by Brussels. Joaquin Almunia, the European Commission's head of competition, has said that the latest proposals from Google to remedy the skewing of results to its own advantage were "not acceptable". The [...]
Pictures: Hachette bags new Victoria Embankment office

December 20, 2013

Publisher Hachette has landed the lease for an impressive new office on Victoria Embankment. Designed by Fletcher Priest Architects, 50 Carmelite Riverside comes with a grand 7,600 sq ft roof terrace overlooking the Thames (pictured). Hachette will occupy most of the 135,000 sq ft building, sub-letting out 40,000 sq ft in the new year. View [...]
Khodorkovsky released as Putin’s regime loosens grip ahead of Winter Games

December 20, 2013

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, has been released after serving a prison sentence which lasted more than a decade. Official reports say he has already left the remote prison colony near the Arctic Circle, where he was incarcerated. Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to free Khodorkovsky, a former political rival, but many of Putin's [...]
FTSE 100 reshuffle day: Here’s who’s in and who’s out

December 20, 2013

A couple of changes on the FTSE 100 today, as decisions from last week's quarterly review come into effect today, with the benchmark index welcoming Royal Mail and Ashtead into its ranks. Whilst high-profile Royal Mail made it onto the blue chip list, fellow stock market debutant Merlin – who owns Madame Tussauds – only [...]
Npower to pay £3.5m to customers after breaking sales rules

December 20, 2013

Not overly festive news for Npower this morning. The UK energy supplier has, for the second time this month, been ordered to pay out to help vulnerable customers, after an Ofgem investigation found fault with its business procedures. The £3.5m payment will see at least £25 go to each Warm Home Discount customer. The probe [...]
What you need to know before the open – 20/12

December 20, 2013

With Christmas drawing ever nearer, today's the last day of the final full week of trading, but we've still got a fair amount of data coming in. Disappointing numbers over in the US yesterday saw markets slip, finishing the day mixed. But Europe moved up, meaning we could see the FTSE 100 finish higher for [...]
Serco to repay government £68.5m for tagging scandal

December 19, 2013

Serco has agreed to repay the government £68.5m for overcharging for its tagging of criminals, Justice secretary Chris Grayling has confirmed. Both Serco and rival G4S have been found to have overcharged on contracts dating back to 2005, in a review prompted by allegations surrounding the two firms. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) opened a [...]
We’re still in manufacturing: The top 10 things the UK’s making

December 19, 2013

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Suffering department stores temper retail sales growth in November

December 19, 2013

Consumers' appetites for spending increased slightly in November as the UK high street saw growth again. Retail sales picked up 0.3 per cent in November, in line with expectations and following October's disappointing 0.9 per cent drop. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics showed that, year-on-year, sales were up two per cent from [...]
Insurance broker JLT Specialty whacked with £1.8m fine from FCA

December 19, 2013

City regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said this morning that it's fined JLT Specialty (JLTSL) over £1.8m for an "unacceptable" approach to bribery and corruption risks from overseas payments. The regulator said the insurance broker and risk management company failed "to have in place appropriate checks and controls to guard against the risk of [...]

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