By: Shruti Tripathi

I am City A.M.'s news editor. I love interviewing entrepreneurs, carrying out investigations through freedom of information requests and covering all the latest goings on in the world's great city, London. I started my career as an intern at LondonLovesBusiness.com in 2011 and became editor in 2015. I joined City A.M. as deputy night editor in July 2016.

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City Moves for 6 June 2016 | Who’s switching jobs

June 6, 2016

Deloitte Deloitte has announced Matt Ellis as new managing partner for tax in the UK and Switzerland. He takes over from Andy Hodge who led the practice for the past five years and is retiring from the firm. Matt has held a variety of positions in Deloitte, including in regional offices in Southampton and Reading as well as London. Most [...]
Firing up innovation in Japan: Entrepreneurship has been frowned up in Japan but a new breed of youngsters are hoping to make the country a world class technology player once again

June 6, 2016

The eighties were a boom time for Japan, when the country’s high-tech innovations meant the likes of Sony, Nintendo, Mitsubishi and Toshiba were global leaders. Its technology had changed society, from the appearance of the first bullet train in 1964, to Sony’s Walkman in 1979, through to the Nintendo GameBoy in 1989. Japan’s dominance in [...]
Revolts are not just for shareholders: Why the public should demand more from UK Plc

June 6, 2016

From BP chief executive Bob Dudley’s bloody nose over his £14m pay deal to Weir Group’s remuneration committee being forced back to the drawing board to rethink their executive payment policies, investors have made it clear this AGM season that they’re no longer prepared to put up with outlandish boardroom pay. More spirited revolts could [...]
London is crucial to the LSE-Deutsche Boerse merger, says top exec

June 6, 2016

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Deutsche Boerse are walking a tightrope. As well as attempting to persuade shareholders and regulators to approve their £21bn merger, the tie-up has also attracted passionate interventions from politicians in the UK, Germany and elsewhere. In Westminster, attention has been drawn to two facts: that Deutsche Boerse’s chief executive would take [...]
Dumbed down Brexit row patronises voters

June 3, 2016

Like clockwork, yesterday brought another slew of extreme projections about the impact of Brexit. It would “destroy” young people’s hopes of getting on the housing ladder, says Remain, apparently forgetting George Osborne’s warning last month that house prices could fall dramatically if the UK quits the EU (surely a boon for first-time buyers). Leave has [...]
City Moves for 3 June 2016 | Who’s switching jobs

June 3, 2016

Dollar UK Dollar UK, a provider of consumer finance – both online and on the high street – has appointed Tony Deakin as its new chief financial officer. Tony, the former CFO of LaSer UK, the consumer finance arm of BNP Paribas, will report directly to chief executive Stuart Howard. Tony is a fellow of [...]
Apple’s App Store, iTunes and iCloud services down

June 2, 2016

Apple users around the world are facing technical difficulties while trying to access the App store on both mobiles and desktops. Some users have also reported that the Apple Music and the iCloud functionality is down. Other services affected include Photos, Apple TV, iCloud, Find My Friends, and the Mac App Store. The Californian giant is set to host its [...]
Bayer secures €60bn loan facility to fund Monsanto bid

June 2, 2016

In a bid to fund its $62bn takeover of US seeds company Monsanto, German drugs giant Bayer has secured a loan facility of a whopping €60bn. German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that Bayer secured a bridge loan from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, HSBC , Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Talks for the takeover started in May after [...]
Private equity guru Jon Moulton considered buying BHS and Austin Reed

June 2, 2016

Private equity guru Jon Moulton has said he had considered snapping up collapsed retailers BHS and Austin Reed. Moulton told City A.M. that he decided against rescuing the businesses as it was “too hard” to revive them. Speaking about why BHS failed, the Better Capital founder said “tough competitive market with too much traditional retail trading space” led [...]
A new low-cost airline hopes to raise £5m through crowdfunding to offer cheap flights from the UK to India

June 2, 2016

A soon to be launched airline hopes to raise £5m through a crowdfunding campaign to run flights between the UK and two Indian cities Amritsar and Ahmedabad. Called POP, which stands for "People Over Profit", the airline claims it will give back a minimum of 51% of its profits to charitable causes in both India and the UK. [...]

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