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By: Samuel Norman

Senior City Reporter Samuel is a Senior City Reporter covering all the top financial institutions from retail banks to fintechs as well as stories on capital markets and economics. He has broken stories on some of the biggest names in the City and regularly writes in-depth analysis pieces on companies and industry trends. Samuel also leads on City AM's morning liveblog from 7am everyday. He writes a weekly column found in print and online on Wednesdays. He can be contacted at samuel.norman@cityam.com and posts on LinkedIn and X at x.com/samnormanwrites.

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  • As it happened: US jobs smash forecasts; Stocks in green amid cloudy US-Iran peace talks

    June 5, 2026

    Welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Speculation around a peace deal between the US and Iran is continuing to leave markets struggling for direction as hopes of an official agreement face roadblocks. A current draft ‌of a memorandum of understanding ​between ‌Iran and the ​US has ambiguities that have to ​be ⁠clarified, ⁠an adviser [...]

  • Gone for good: UK distributor behind Take That film goes bust

    June 4, 2026

    The London-based distributor behind the Take That musical film has gone bust, City AM can reveal, in the latest sign of the intense cost pressures facing the industry. Elysian Film Group Distribution is part of the wider Elysian umbrella, founded by former Studiocanal chief Danny Perkins in 2018. FRP Advisory has been appointed as liquidators [...]

  • Bunq: Revolut rival eyeing up UK banking licence bid

    June 4, 2026

    Europe’s second largest digital bank is gearing up for a bid for a UK banking licence, City AM can reveal, as the firm puts its hat in the ring in the fight to claw market share from fintech leader Revolut.  Bunq – which reached 20 million users in just a decade – is understood to [...]

  • As it happened: Stocks mixed as Trump warns takes ‘two to tango’ on Iran peace

    June 4, 2026

    Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Donald Trump has hinted a peace deal in the Middle East could come as soon as “over the weekend” in the latest back-and-forth of negotiations between the US and Iran. The President yesterday doubled down once more on his claim that Iran is set to [...]

  • Computacenter joins FTSE 100 in reshuffle as index builds tech exposure

    June 4, 2026

    The latest quarterly reshuffle of the FTSE 100 has seen Computacenter, Investec and Aberdeen promoted to the top-tier index of the City’s most valuable companies, bringing a constituent with some direct exposure to the artificial intelligence boom to the City’s most famous benchmark. Computacenter’s rise from the FTSE 250 to blue-chip status looks somewhat like [...]

  • Financial services contributed a tenth of UK economic output in 2025 

    June 3, 2026

    The financial services sector contributed over a tenth of the UK’s economic output in the last year as the industry’s productivity outpaced average momentum.  The industry provided a £290bn boost to the UK’s real GDP – a macroeconomic measure that adjusts the value of economic output for inflation – in 2025 marking around 11 per [...]

  • UK in line for fresh US tariff hit as Trump proposes ‘forced labour’ levy

    June 3, 2026

    Donald Trump has proposed a fresh round of tariffs that would hit numerous nations including the UK as the President seeks to rebuild his sweeping wall of levies that were struck down by the Supreme Court. The US is exploring a tariff of at least ten per cent on imports from up to 60 trading [...]

  • Lloyds Bank and Halifax customers hit with app outage

    June 3, 2026

    Lloyds Banking Group has been rocked with another outage as thousands of customers report issues with their online services. The financial services giant was flagged with a spike on the online outage tracker Downdetector at around 11:15am on Wednesday as users reported issues. Across the group – which includes Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland [...]

  • Ovo to cough up £10.4m for exposing vulnerable customers to harm

    June 3, 2026

    Energy supplier Ovo is set to cough up a hefty sum after an investigation by the watchdog concluded that it had left vulnerable customers at risk of harm. The firm – which focuses on smart technology, green energy tariffs, and carbon-reduction goals – will pay £7m into Ofgem’s voluntary redress fund, which is used for [...]

  • As it happened: Stocks jitter on stalling US-Iran talks; OECD unemployment warning

    June 3, 2026

    Welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Markets are being pulled in countless directions from the conflicting information emerging around the conflict in the Middle East. The FTSE 100 managed to shrug off some of these jitters yesterday and secure a finish 0.3 per cent higher as the price of oil slipped. But this morning [...]

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