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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Tesco unveils plan for smartphone

May 6, 2014

Tesco’s got plans to launch its first smartphone by the end of 2014, the BBC reports. The supermarket’s chief executive Philip Clarke, speaking on Radio 5 live’s Wake Up to Money, said the own-brand phone would be pre-installed with Tesco services. It’ll run on Google’s Android software with hardware similar to Samsung’s Galaxy S5. Tesco [...]
Any Other Business – 06/05

May 6, 2014

ASIDE from the odd pot shot from Boris Johnson, the relationship between the capital and our French cousins has been quite good of late and those hoping to keep it that way might be keen to avert French eyes from the latest blog post from Miles Davis (no, not that one), partner at Wine Investment [...]
What you need to know before the open

May 2, 2014

A mixed open's expected for European markets today, as investors come back from the May Day holiday and start digesting some of the key data from yesterday, along with what's out today. European manufacturing data is predicted to show improvements for Italy, Spain and Germany, but numbers for France may well confirm the slide seen [...]
RBS unveils £1.6bn first quarter profit

May 2, 2014

RBS saw pre-tax profit hit £1.64bn in the first quarter of this year – a 98 per cent increase from 2013. The state-backed lender's operating profit jumped to £1.5bn from £747m a year earlier, as operating costs fell and impairment charges diminished by almost two-thirds. Chief executive Ross McEwan, who's been leading the bank's latest [...]
Barclays loses head of Asia-Pacific business

May 2, 2014

Barclays has said Robert Morrice, its Asian Pacific chairman and chief executive (CEO), is retiring after 17 years in the role. Andrew Jones and Eiji Nakai will step into the breach as co-CEOs, the bank said today. Jones is currently chief operating officer for Asia Pacific, while Nakai is chief executive of Barclays Japan business. [...]
Any Other Business – 02/05

May 2, 2014

JOHN Lewis’ flagship shop on Oxford Street transformed itself from a department store into a period drama last night for the launch of a new exhibition celebrating its 150th anniversary. Actors swanned about in period dress acting out the long and interesting history of the business, while invitees sipped cocktails and champagne. Even the heavy [...]
City & Gild: All Hail Real Ale

May 2, 2014

  As a bloke of a certain age, the new wave real ale, artisan brewing phenomenon has not passed me by un-noticed; the emergence of owner-operated, boutique, passion-led breweries has reinvigorated a dying pub culture and given ales a new energy comparable to the recent growth in wine and vodka. It may just have done for [...]
Why the EU’s mango ban’s a really daft idea

May 1, 2014

Today, an EU-wide ban on Indian Alphonso mangoes has come into force. Though temporary, it’ll stop imports to the UK until December 2015. The ban, which also applied to aubergines, two kinds of squash and a leaf called patra used for cooking, comes after non-European food pests, in the form of a type of fruit [...]
Most of us think it’s art, but Londoners still aren’t sure if they like graffiti

May 1, 2014

It looks like attitudes towards graffiti are changing: most Brits think it's art, and Londoner’s like it the most. Two thirds of the British public now think graffiti can be considered art, according to a new YouGov poll. Only 34 per cent answered 'yes' to “all graffiti is vandalism”. Most people think it’s 'acceptable', with [...]
What you need to know before the US open

May 1, 2014

A flat open’s expected for US stocks today, as market digest the mixed variety of economic data and earnings reports coming in. Initial jobless claims were higher than expected for last week. 344,000 people signed up for unemployment benefit in the US – analysts expected 319,000, following 330,000 the week before. Personal spending rose 0.7 [...]

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