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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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 [...]
Trump escalates trade war, suggests Canada becomes ‘51st State’

March 11, 2025

President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with Canada, doubling tariffs on metals to 50 per cent and threatening to “substantially increase” levies on the automotive industry. In a post on his own Truth Social network, the US President threatened to “permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada” if Canadian retaliatory tariffs [...]
Regulator considers redress scheme in motor finance review

March 11, 2025

In a statement this morning, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined its next steps in its motor finance review – including an industry-wide redress scheme if the Supreme Court upholds last year’s Court of Appeal ruling. The UK’s top court is expected to hear the appeal in early April as part of the growing [...]
Oil tanker collides with cargo ship in the North Sea

March 10, 2025

An oil tanker has collided with a cargo ship in the North Sea, off the coast of East Yorkshire. An HM Coastguard response is ongoing after the container ship MV Solong struck the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate – which was at anchor off the Humberside Estuary. According to BBC sources, the oil tanker is [...]
Government to hit regulators with performance targets to drive innovation

March 10, 2025

Regulators will be slapped with new performance targets in an effort to stimulate technological innovation and drive investment in the UK. According to Lord Patrick Vallance, the science minister, the benchmarks will be designed to accelerate innovation. Lord Vallance has suggested that this drive for innovation could result in commercial delivery drones, self-driving vehicles, and [...]
Jake Greenberg firm Cobalt Holdings set for London listing

March 10, 2025

The co-founder of uranium firm Yellow Cake’s new venture, Cobalt Holdings, is looking to float in London as early as May. The Times reports that Jake Greenberg’s firm is looking to raise £180m to buy up $200m (£155m) of Cobalt from Glencore in a six-year supply deal. Glencore is set to be a cornerstone investor, [...]

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