By: Matt Kenyon

Digital Editor Matt Kenyon is City AM's Digital Editor. He oversees digital strategy for editorial, whilst writing the odd feature for the paper and co-hosting the Business As Usual podcast. You can reach him at matt.kenyon@cityam.com

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Yorkshire Water forced to pay out £40m after ‘serious failures’

March 20, 2025

Yorkshire Water will have to pay out a £40m “enforcement package” to address a series of “serious failures” in its maintenance of sewage networks. The water supplier will pay out £36.6m over the next five years after the water watchdog Ofwat found repeated failures to properly invest in infrastructure. Environmentally sensitive areas will be targeted [...]
Indian billionaire mulls expanding BT stake

March 18, 2025

Indian telecoms billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal is reportedly considering boosting his stake in BT, according to a report in the Financial Times. Mittal already holds a 24.5 per cent stake in BT, which he bought from Luxembourg-based telecoms giant Altice – previously owned by Patrick Drahi. The expanded stake would continue to be held through [...]
What was the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies?

March 17, 2025

The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies is the latest (and perhaps the most obscure) victim piled upon the government’s bonfire of quangos. First there was the Payment Systems Regulator, which was rolled into the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Then, Sir Keir Starmer announced his most radical health reform yet by shuttering NHS [...]
OECD slashes UK economic forecasts amid global slowdown

March 17, 2025

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has cut the UK’s economic growth forecasts due to stubborn inflation and an escalating trade war. The OECD’s new interim report scaled back UK growth to 1.4 per cent in 2025 and 1.2 per cent in 2026 – down from previous projections of 1.7 and 1.3 per [...]
Employment dips as businesses brace for cost hikes

March 17, 2025

Employment shrank by 0.4 per cent in February as small businesses prepare for rising costs, according to a new report from the hiring platform Employment Hero. In a monthly report looking at data from 105,000 employees, the company found that employment reforms and business tax hikes in the Budget have impacted hiring and employee retention. [...]
Reeves to meet regulators as Starmer pledges to cut red tape

March 17, 2025

Rachel Reeves will meet with regulators on Monday, as the government sets out to cut the cost of regulation on businesses by a quarter. The Chancellor has summoned eight regulators to Number 11 Downing Street, including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Health and Safety Executive. Sir Keir Starmer told City AM in an [...]
Ex-Barclays boss admits to sex with a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s staff

March 13, 2025

The former chief executive of Barclays admitted at the High Court on Wednesday that he had sex with a member of staff working for Jeffrey Epstein at an apartment owned by the convicted paedophile’s brother. In his third day of cross examination as part of a legal clash with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Jes [...]
EU hits back at US with €26bn in retaliatory tariffs

March 12, 2025

The EU has announced retaliatory “countermeasures” on €26bn worth of US goods, as the global trade war sparked by Trump’s package of tariffs continues to rage. Early on Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that there will be a two-stage process to implement the tariffs, first allowing current measures to lapse before [...]
Regulator will drop plans to ‘name and shame’ UK companies

March 12, 2025

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to announce that it will shelve plans to “name and shame” companies accused of falling foul of its rules. Following pressure to drop the controversial policy, the financial watchdog will U-turn on the new threshold for disclosing more public details on companies under investigation. Announced back in February [...]
Ukraine accepts US ceasefire deal and ‘ball is in Russia’s court’, says Trump

March 12, 2025

President Trump has said that “the ball is in Russia’s court” to agree to a US peace deal after Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenksy, accepted a peace deal in Jeddah. The deal, brokered in Saudi Arabia, involves an immediate cessation of hostilities – and would facilitate the return of US support to Ukraine. The US and Ukraine [...]

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