City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? September 6, 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. Coremont Financial services and portfolio management firm Coremont has appointed a fresh deputy head of product. Joining from financial intelligence company Qontigo where he was head of technology coordination, Yu Xu is set to help accelerate the [...]
Snap snaps and Big Tech feels the heat: What’s next for advertising? September 6, 2022 City A.M. chats with sustainable advertising platform WeAre8 to chat about the future of advertising in an age of distraction and economic turmoil.
If Liz Truss thought winning was hard, governing will be a formidable task September 6, 2022 It will not feel like it to Liz Truss, but that was the easy bit. Political campaigns are always brutal, exhausting and emotional affairs; none more so than this summer’s long and fractious Conservative leadership contest. But the challenges of the last few months pale into insignificance against the enormity of what the new prime [...]
Exclusive: New co-working hub headed to Oxford Street this autumn September 6, 2022 A new co-working hub is coming to Oxford Street, City A.M. can reveal today. Office and workspace company Huckletree, which operates across some of the biggest cities in the UK, is set to unveil its fifth London site in November. The 22,000 square foot workspace, in Jubilee House, is hoped to bring a much-needed boost [...]
If we’re going to get fracking, we’re going to need to overhaul our planning system September 6, 2022 In the face of an energy crunch which will put enormous strain on our economy, little makes more sense than making fracking a national priority. At a 10 per cent recovery rate, the potential natural gas reserve in the UK is enough to make us self-sufficient for 50 years. The safe and timely development of [...]
In memoriam of Boris Johnson’s premiership September 6, 2022 He’s been the poster boy for Brexit, the flag bearer for Levelling Up, and then the party boy of Downing Street who was eventually brought down by a sex scandal not involving him.
We must keep the shine on Britain’s financial services to maintain our global standing September 6, 2022 Britain’s financial services sector is still much envied on the world stage, but there’s no room for complacency. The international competition of financial centres is fierce. The UK’s capital markets have long been thriving – a diverse cluster of financial services, a large pool of skilled talent, and the robustness of our legal system are [...]
Letters: A new dawn, same problems September 6, 2022 [Re: Liz Truss will be the next UK Prime Minister, yesterday] We’ve spent the summer listening to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak fight it out over who will be the next prime minister. Now, we finally have a new prime minister but we have all the same problems we had before the leadership election was announced. [...]
OPEC+ to cut oil output as recession fears weigh down demand September 5, 2022 OPEC+ have agreed a small output cut in oil production to bolster prices that have dipped amid escalating fears of an economic slowdown.
Liz Truss is new PM: Johnson loyalists Patel, Dories and Tory co-chair quit September 5, 2022 Three senior Conservative and Boris Johnson loyalists quit their roles ahead of Liz Truss being sworn in as prime minister. Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, Nadine Dorries, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Ben Elliott, the Johnson-appointed co-chair of the Party, announced they quit their roles. Patel took to Twitter [...]
