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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From due diligence to market mapping: Private capital is leaning on AI

September 16, 2026

Private equity and venture capital firms are handing over administrative and back-office tasks to artificial intelligence agents in order to shift staff focus to more pressing matters. AI is becoming increasingly embedded across the UK private capital industry, with nine in ten firms now using the technology to support at least one business activity, according [...]
Healey urged to ‘restore faith’ by ending personal allowance freeze in Budget

September 16, 2026

UK savers are demanding chancellor John Healey end the freeze on the personal allowance in his maiden Autumn Budget, as more Brits get dragged into higher tax bands. A recent poll showed nearly 70 per cent of taxpayers want Healey to unfreeze the personal allowance, with critics arguing it has forced workers and pensioners into [...]
European financial centres lose global standing amid ‘relentless pivot to Asia’

September 16, 2026

European financial centres suffered a decline in global rankings as the continent continued to lose ground to fast-growing Asian cities. Centres across Europe saw their prominence erode, with several key cities tumbling in the latest rankings from Z/Yen’s 40th Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 40). European cities fell out of top 20, after only four [...]
SpaceX float ‘could kickstart mega IPO access for British retail investors’

September 1, 2026

SpaceX’s use of the UK’s new public offer platform to raise hundreds of millions of pounds from British retail investors could encourage a wave of large US companies to follow suit, according to one of the brokers that orchestrated the deal. The public offer platform (POP), introduced by the financial watchdog in January, was designed [...]
Over one million pensioners hit by higher income tax rates

September 1, 2026

The number of pensioners paying the highest rates of income tax has doubled in the last five years as frozen thresholds drag more Brits into higher bands. The amount of pensioners paying income tax at 40 per cent or 45 per cent has surpassed one million this current tax year, according to a freedom of [...]
‘War on wealth creation’: capital gains tax raid would lose government money, Tories argue

August 28, 2026

A fresh capital gains tax raid on Britain’s wealthiest would ultimately lose the government money, according to new Conservative analysis of Treasury data. Internal government modelling suggests that the top rate of capital gains tax (CGT) is already too high and hiking it further would lead to lower tax receipts. Figures presented to the Labour [...]
Use AI for investing at your own risk, warns watchdog

August 27, 2026

The financial watchdog has warned Brits using AI for investment advice that they may not be protected if things go wrong as more people turn to online chatbots. Four in five inexperienced investors admitted to using AI tools for help with their investment decision, according to the latest research from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). [...]
FCA bans wealth manager trio behind £35.5m investor visa scam

August 26, 2026

The financial watchdog has banned and fined a trio of former wealth managers after discovering they operated a scheme designed to help clients slip past UK investor visa rules. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found that three Dolfin Financial executives had run a scheme designed to create the false impression that visa requirements to enter [...]
Pensioners to hand over bank statements in government benefits crackdown

August 26, 2026

Pensioners will have to hand over their bank statements to the government as part of its crackdown on the ballooning benefits system. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is preparing to inform pensioners they will need to provide bank statements as part of its review into Pension Credit claims, I News first reported. The [...]
FTSE 100 creeps closer to record high as investors dodge AI turmoil

August 25, 2026

The FTSE 100 is creeping toward another record high after logging its best run in three months, as investors hunt for stocks detached from AI and tech. London’s blue chip index has recorded five straight days of gains and ticked up 0.18 per cent on Tuesday to trade at 10,875 by 11:45am. If it continues [...]

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