City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? January 21, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. CISI The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) has confirmed that its long serving CEO Simon Culhane will step down. Handing over the reins in September, Culhane will depart the top role after 18 years. Culhane, who grew CISI’s [...]
The left’s polarising piety is its own worst enemy in the politics of climate January 21, 2022 Throughout much of the English speaking world, climate change is a politically polarising issue. In the United States, Canada and Australia, the left favours action while the right opposes it. How lucky we are that this is not the case in Britain. Here, more than a decade of Conservative government has seen the introduction of [...]
Sadiq Khan is fighting London’s pollution problem but it’s the capital’s infrastructure that must be the priority January 21, 2022 Last week, millions of Londoners were advised to stay indoors – this time not because of a Covid-19 lockdown, but because pollution in the capital was at the highest possible level. For a country supposedly leading the way in net zero climate action, this is an alarming indication of how far its capital still needs [...]
UK brands unprepared for third-party cookie phaseout January 21, 2022 With new privacy updates from Apple and Google coming into force, as well as a deluge of data surfacing from new digital sources, UK marketers are facing a challenging 2022.
Exclusive: UK businesses making strides in quantum computing despite the technology being considered “overhyped” January 21, 2022 New research of UK business decision makers has revealed that 55 per cent of companies think that quantum computing – a type of computing that uses quantum mechanics so that it can perform certain types of computation more efficiently than a regular computer – is an overhyped technology.
Online school has been a blemish for kids learning but hybrid could be a safety net January 21, 2022 Earlier this week, Boris Johnson announced kids would once again be free to take off their masks while at school. But with the Omicron variant still sweeping through the country, some schools have defied the Prime Minister and will keep the rules in place. The uncertainty all of us have had to live through has [...]
Brits’ optimism shrinks on soaring inflation and looming tax hikes January 21, 2022 An inflation spike, the re-emergence of Covid-19 restrictions and looming tax hikes have combined to dampen Brits’ confidence in the year ahead, reveals a closely watched survey released today. The erosion of household budgets by inflation climbing to a near three decade high has led to concerns about a deterioration in personal finances to sweep [...]
ESG shoots up private equity agenda despite dealmakers failing to see financial value January 21, 2022 Sustainability has shot up private equity firms’ decision-making agenda despite a majority of dealmakers not considering it to deliver significant financial value.
Nightmare Alley is another sumptuously dark tale from Guillermo Del Toro January 21, 2022 The 2010s were an interesting time for Guillermo Del Toro. The first half of the decade was spent in blockbuster land, exiting The Hobbit before making divisive sci-fi blockbuster Pacific Rim. The second half was devoted to two eerie period fables in Crimson Peak and The Shape of Water. The latter was a surprise hit, [...]
Stratford and Nine Elms enjoy rental market bounceback amid stock lows January 21, 2022 London areas to have enjoyed an especially strong post-pandemic comeback include Battersea/Nine Elms and Canary Wharf. Alongside Kensington, Stratford and the City of London, these areas have marked 7.5% average growth in rental prices. Growth from pre-pandemic levels has ranged from 5.8 per cent to 8.8 per cent, according to research from JLL. The research [...]
