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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Football INDEX’s Adam Cole talks Messi, tech in Bangkok and lads’ mags on VHS

February 8, 2016

Plenty of entrepreneurs describe their lightbulb moment as realising that they could fix somebody else’s problem. Adam Cole’s moment, back in 2000, had a touch more glamour. “I was having dinner at a friend’s, and his wife said to me, ‘darling, the FTSE is so dull; us girls know nothing about it. Imagine if we could [...]
P2P lending: Four predictions for 2016

February 4, 2016

After a decade of bold leaps, 2016 is the year that peer-to-peer (P2P) lending will finally come of age. It has built a loyal following of investors, but remains something of a niche asset class. This year it will launch itself as a true mainstream investment option. Why? The Innovative Finance Isa In the 2015 [...]
Cordant Group’s Phillip Ullmann talks to Harriet Green about looking after 52,000 workers and turning teal

February 1, 2016

When I met Phillip Ullmann, head of Cordant Group and employer of over 52,000 people, he had just lost his job title. It wasn’t that someone had taken it from him – rather that he’s shed it. “Job titles are nonsense. What does it mean to be an executive chair, chief executive, managing director? Titles [...]
The Brexit disaster movie won’t happen – Britain can secure the deals it needs for a strong future outside the EU

January 29, 2016

Something strange is happening to Britain’s Europhiles. Over the past few years I have had the great pleasure of debating many talented and articulate spokespeople. But recently, there has been a bizarre trend among those who want Britain to stay in the EU at all costs. They now seem to spend their time describing a fantasy [...]
With GDP up 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2015, should we worry that services are propping up growth?

January 29, 2016

Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, says Yes. The dependence on services is a concern, but no surprise. Manufacturing, more exposed to overseas competition and demand, was faring well in 2014, before being hit by a strong pound and weak global growth. But this leaves us with an upturn that remains reliant largely on [...]
Gust and SyndicateRoom talk about their new crowdfunding partnership – and what it means for the industry

January 28, 2016

There has been much talk that 2016 will be the year of consolidation, expansion and partnership within the P2P and crowdfunding industry. And one UK firm, SyndicateRoom, known for its investor-led model, has wasted no time in getting on with it. On Tuesday, the equity crowdfunding platform announced its collaboration with Gust, the world’s largest [...]
Gender stereotypes: How businesses can tackle them once and for all

January 28, 2016

For workplace diversity, 2015 was a landmark year, with Lord Davies’s much-publicised target of having 25 per cent women on the boards of FTSE 100 companies finally being met in October. But we shouldn’t pat ourselves on the back just yet. While progress has undoubtedly been made in the upper echelons of UK Plc, the sad [...]
M Restaurant’s Martin Williams on Wagyu, division bells and building a brand

January 25, 2016

There is something of the Midas touch about Martin Williams. Forty minutes into an interview about his restaurants, M Threadneedle Street and M Victoria Street – currently two of the capital’s trendiest hangouts – he mentions his previous life as an actor. Despite being successful on stage and TV in his early twenties, the on-off [...]
Equity crowdfunding: The 2016 refresher guide for investors

January 21, 2016

Alternative finance has provided us with several new asset classes, and one of them is equity crowdfunding. In 2015, the global crowdfunding industry grew to $34.4bn – more than doubling from a year earlier – according to a report from Massolution. In the UK, research from Alt Fi published in November of last year suggested [...]
Doddle’s Tim Robinson talks 2016, the future of shopping and why he’s looking for a new partner

January 18, 2016

Have you used Doddle? If you have, then you’ll either have done so once or 13 times, Tim Robinson, chief executive of the parcel collect and send service tells me. Founded in the autumn of 2014, Doddle has done rather well so far. Over its 2015 peak trading period (the run-up to Christmas), it saw [...]

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