By: Rupert Hargreaves

Managing Editor Rupert Hargreaves is City AM's Managing Editor. He also edits Whisky Business: City AM's monthly look at the world of whisky and covers the insurance sector, including Lloyd's of London. Before joining City AM, he helped lead the digital team at MoneyWeek, the UK's best-selling financial magazine. Rupert has over 15 years of experience in financial journalism and holds qualifications from the CFA Institute and the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).

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The angel’s share: The unique challenges of whisky lending

October 30, 2025

At its core, the process of lending money to businesses isn’t particularly complex. Banks and other lenders price loans based on the risk of lending, calculated by assessing a company’s assets, liabilities and cash flow. But how do you price the risk of a business that requires a substantial upfront investment, won’t see a return [...]
Stablecoin regulation: UK urged to act faster on crypto or fall behind

October 24, 2025

Over one thousand crypto supporters gathered in East London at the E1 club on Wednesday for Stand With Crypto’s inaugural UK rally. The rally followed the close of the Zebu Live Conference and the London Blockchain Conference, bringing crypto enthusiasts from all over the world to London. Stand With Crypto’s movement Stand With Crypto, a [...]
The Whisky Exchange’s top creative cask bottlings

October 16, 2025

City AM has teamed up with the Whisky Exchange to showcase some of the company’s most creative and innovative spirits. This month, it’s the turn of the creative cask bottlings, whiskies and rums bottled in unique and interesting casks that showcase the best of the spirit and innovation in the industry. As part of the [...]
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s colour evolution

October 16, 2025

Whisky Business: City AM’s monthly look at the world of whisky. Over the past couple of decades, single malts have become synonymous with the Scotch whisky category. While blended Scotch, which uses a blend of different whiskies from various distilleries, still accounts for around 90 per cent of industry volume, single malt whisky, matured and distilled [...]
Scotch Whisky Association calls for spirits duty freeze as industry headwinds grow

October 15, 2025

The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has urged the UK Government to impose a multi-year freeze on spirits duty, warning that continued inaction threatens jobs, investment and Treasury revenues. In a submission ahead of the autumn Budget, the trade body stated that recent duty increases had cost the Treasury £700m while placing a £12 tax burden [...]
Distillers One of One: The Glenlivet and Port Ellen bottles smash records

October 13, 2025

The third edition of The Distillers One of One® Charity Auction smashed all expectations last week, raising nearly £3m for charity. Overall, the One of One auction raised £2.9m, setting a total of 30 auction records in the process. Record price tags were achieved for The Glenlivet, Port Ellen, Ladyburn, Glenfarclas, The Glendronach, Laphroaig, KANDOBLANC, [...]
Cotswolds Distillery releases limited edition Wychwood Harvest

October 3, 2025

Cotswolds Distillery, the best-selling English whisky producer, has released a new limited edition single malt this week, with only 1,500 bottles available. The Cotswolds Wychwood Harvest Single Malt Whisky became the latest in the distillery’s annual Harvest Series and took its name from the historic Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire. This expression was crafted from a [...]
The Dalmore unveils rare red wine cask edition

October 1, 2025

The Dalmore has launched the third instalment in its ultra-premium Cask Curation Series, finished in red wine casks sourced from Château Mont-Redon in France’s Châteauneuf-du-Pape region. The Highland distillery used freshly emptied casks from the Rhône valley estate to finish three aged Single Malt expressions — 24, 34 and 43 years old — to highlight [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Asos and Close Brothers lead City stocks’ fall as economic growth slows

September 30, 2025

Good morning from the City AM liveblog team. When Rachel Reeves prepared her inaugural budget last year, she had little in the way of good news to impart to the people of Britain. The chancellor said she’d been left a bad inheritance, and had to raise tens of billions of pounds in extra taxes to plug spending [...]
India Business Group awards celebrate cross-border collaboration

September 23, 2025

The deepening commercial relationship between the UK and India was thrust into the spotlight last night as business leaders gathered at the House of Lords for the fourth annual Indian Awards, hosted by the India Business Group (IBG). The gala event came just months after the signing of a landmark Free Trade Agreement between the [...]

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