By: Maisie Grice

Investment Reporter Maisie Grice is City AM’s investment reporter. She completed the Financial Time’s newsroom apprenticeship, working on specialist magazine Investors’ Chronicle and the UK news desk before joining FT Money as a personal finance reporter. She also worked as a regional news reporter at the Manchester Evening News, covering live events, crime and local politics.

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Coinbase ‘everything’s fine’ crypto ad banned by watchdog

Business

A cryptocurrency advert which depicted people in grotty homes singing “everything is fine” has been banned by the advertising watchdog. The adverts, which included a video ad and three posters and were commissioned by cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase, were banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after an investigation found they trivialised the risks of [...]
Old hands vs new kids on the block: Investment platforms battle for customers

Investing

Last year marked a significant change in attitudes towards retail investing in the UK, after the Treasury made tearing consumers away from the safety of their cash savings a firm ambition. In the government’s bid to revitalise London’s flagship index, Rachel Reeves slashed the cash ISA allowance from £20,000 to £12,000, introduced a three year [...]
Trump to raise tariffs on South Korea to 25 per cent

Politics

US President Donald Trump has said he will increase tariffs on South Korea to 25 per cent, after accusing Seoul of “not living up” to the trade deal reached late last year. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said the increase would apply to a range of products including lumber, automobiles, pharmaceuticals and [...]

FTSE 100 Live: HSBC carries blue-chips; Starmer eyes China trade

January 27, 2026

Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Gold’s magnificent rally was continuing on Tuesday morning after breaking through the $5,100 mark for the first time. The flurry to safe haven assets notched up after Trump threatened Canada with 100 per cent tariffs if the country “made a deal with China”. Last week [...]
Hargreaves Lansdown overhauls fees in face of rising competition

January 26, 2026

The UK’s largest DIY investment platform is reducing fees for roughly half of its 2m-plus customers as it continues to face escalating competition within the industry. Hargreaves Lansdown said it will cut its annual account and share dealing fees, but add a charge for fund trading in its first overhaul of pricing in more than [...]
S4 Capital shares surge as profit guidance improves

January 26, 2026

Digital advertising company S4 Capital shares jumped in early morning trading after reporting that activity during the final quarter was ahead of its revised guidance. Shares surged 40.6 per cent to 27.2 pence as the company defied the challenging backdrop for advertising groups, but reported a fall in revenue. The company anticipates full year net [...]
Gold hits new record high amid fresh Trump turmoil

January 26, 2026

The price of gold jumped above $5,000 on Monday, as investors once again scrambled to get their hands on the safe haven asset amid heightened Trump tariff turmoil and policy changes. The precious metal surged to $5,078 (£3,716) per ounce, extending its record rally, before reaching $5,097.24 on Monday morning. Silver also hurtled past $100 [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Gold surges past $5,000, S4 Capital shares rocket

January 26, 2026

Good morning from the City AM liveblog team. While brokers and stock exchange managers are hoping for an IPO comeback in 2026 after a four-year drought, some investors are less keen to see a flood of fresh companies hitting the market. Speaking at an Innovate Finance panel discussion chaired by City AM, James Codling, managing [...]
Institutional investors brace for IPO revival as general partners eye listings

January 26, 2026

Global institutional investors are anticipating an uptick in IPO activity in 2026, as more general partners prepare to enter the stock market. Almost eight in ten limited partners (LPs), investors in a partnership who contribute capital but do not manage operations, reported that their general partners (GPs), individuals who manage investments, were preparing portfolio companies [...]
Fund giant slashes UK exposure as investors sour on Britain

January 23, 2026

One of the world’s largest money managers is shedding its investments in the UK, after investors said they wanted more of their cash to be allocated overseas despite a government push to encourage investment in domestic equities. Vanguard, the world’s second largest asset manager, said it would reduce its £52bn Life Strategy fund’s UK equity [...]

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