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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3 G4S officers face manslaughter charges for plane death

March 20, 2014

Three G4S custody officers are facing manslaughter charges over the death of Jimmy Mubenga, who died on a plane while being deported from the UK. Colin Kaler, Terrence Hughes and Stuart Tribelnig will, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed, face prosecution. In July 2012, the CPS made the decision that no charges should be brought [...]
FCA bans and fines trader £663k for manipulating gilt price during QE

March 20, 2014

Mark Stevenson, a bond trader with almost 30 years’ experience, has been banned from the industry and fined £662,700 for deliberately manipulating a UK government bond – gilt – on 10 October 2011. Stevenson has a holding worth £1.2bn, which he intended to sell to the Bank of England for an artificially high price during [...]
William Hill ups hit from Budget as shares carry on sliding

March 20, 2014

William Hill’s revised up how big the hit it’ll take from the increase in tax on its fixed-odds betting terminals will be – to £22m. In a document entitled “Clarification re Budget”, the bookmaker explains its original figure of £16m, put forward in response to George Osborne’s Budget announcement that machine games duty (MGD) would [...]
EU deal reached on banking union

March 20, 2014

EU negotiators have agreed a deal to create a new agency to monitor the health of banks operating in the Eurozone, reports Reuters. The agency will close banks that are too weak to survive and a fund will also be set up to help cover costs, according to the draft agreement. All-night talks ended an [...]
Resolution shares continue sliding as insurer says annuities will remain important

March 20, 2014

Resolution, the UK insurer, has warned this morning that the radical proposals made by chancellor George Osborne in the Budget yesterday will have a “far-reaching” impact, with the implications taking “time to be fully understood”. Despite the negative implication for new business, however, the firm’s confident annuities will continue to be an important product. And [...]
Mulberry chief Guillon quits

March 20, 2014

Bruno Guillon, the chief executive of fashion house Mulberry, has resigned “with immediate effect”. The store, which issued a profit warning in January, seeing shares plummet 25 per cent, will now be looking for a new leader. Godfrey Davis, who is a current non-executive chairman and has previously been chief executive, will hold the reins [...]
What you need to know before the open

March 20, 2014

Following a broadly favourable Budget yesterday, then something of a curveball from Janet Yellen – her suggestions about the course of interest rates unsettling markets, European bourses are expected lower today, tracking Asian and US counterparts. Markets sold off sharply on talk that the Fed could raise rates by the spring of next year, and [...]
Next overtakes M&S as CEO delivers economic warning

March 20, 2014

High street fashion store next had, in its own words, a great year last year. In a landmark moment, it's overtaken Marks and Spencer as the biggest clothes retailer by profits in the UK. It's upped its sales growth forecast significantly – from between one and four per cent to between four and eight per cent. [...]
Why copper’s getting crushed (again)

March 19, 2014

China’s the world’s number one commodity buyer. So it’s not overly surprising that the slowdown in its economy has been blamed for the decline in the price of copper, which – dubbed Dr Copper – usually serves as something of a barometer for the health of the global economy, is falling. Today, it’s down 2.24 [...]
US markets exercise caution ahead of Yellen speech

March 19, 2014

US markets crept lower today at the open, following weaker European counterparts. Investors are awaiting the new inflation and growth forecasts from the Fed’s Open Market Committee, with Janet Yellen holding her first press conference (6.00pm GMT) since taking over as chair last month. Despite some recent weaker economic data, the Fed isn’t expected to [...]

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