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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Brexit: If the pound weakens, is it such a bad thing?

May 22, 2016

Sterling has been swinging as the threat of a potential British exit from the EU looms large. The pound has fallen by eight per cent against the dollar in the last year. It reached a two- and-a-half year low in April, as international investors sold out of sterling assets. The pound then rose last week as [...]
Greek parliament approves bailout reforms

May 22, 2016

Greece’s parliament just approved a controversial bill of bailout reforms, ahead of a vital Europgroup meeting on Tuesday. The bill is likely to include the last chunk of a €5.4bn ($6.06bn) austerity package which Greece will implement by 2018. The much-needed bill increases tax, creates a new privatisation fund and frees up the sale of non-performing loans in exchange for bailout loans [...]
Oops…Labour party officials struggle to get on first-name terms with supporters, while former deputy leader Harriet Harman fails to name top EU officials

May 22, 2016

Labour MP Sadiq Khan may have won London voters over this month with his relateable back-story, but the rest of the party is struggling to get on first-name terms with its members. Labour members were riled on Sunday after the party sent out an email asking voters to support its campaign to keep Britain in the EU. Read [...]
A water-only cocktail bar is opening in Selfridges later this year

May 22, 2016

Good news for teetotalers with expensive tastes. As the oil and gas industry endured tough times earlier this year, the media was rife with speculation that petrol, which fell to 86p per litre in January, could become cheaper than water. Now that Brent crude prices are recovering, with barrels valued at close to $50 (£34.46), [...]
Shard Capital boss puts brokers off their vol-au-vents with blistering speech ahead of fifth birthday dinner

May 22, 2016

A very happy birthday to the brokers at Shard Capital – the firm celebrated its fifth anniversary with a glittering bash at the Tower of London last weekend. The Capitalist is told spirits were high – but it seems that chief executive James Lewis may have put his partners off their vol-au-vents ahead of the big night. [...]
Cold calls are on the rise – The amount of time Brits spend taking nuisance calls has risen more than 20 per cent, but older people are being targeted more, according to new research

May 22, 2016

Nuisance calls are on the rise, with almost 40 per cent of all phone calls coming from firms advertising services, new research has revealed. Intrusive phone calls have risen by more than 22 per cent in the last three years, according to a study from consumer affairs organisation Which? and call-blocking firm TrueCall. One in [...]
These are the 10 most and least expensive towns in Britain

May 20, 2016

Kensington and Chelsea has been named Britain's most expensive neighbourhood, with an average price of £11,321 per square metre. Despite prices dropping one per cent in the last year, the borough’s per square metre average is still five times higher than the national average of £2,216, according to a report by Halifax. Other London areas [...]
London’s iconic black cabs to come clean as Chinese owner raises $400m to electrify taxi fleet

May 19, 2016

The Chinese owner of London’s iconic black cab has raised $400m (£273.8m) in a bid to introduce "clean taxis" on London roads. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. secured the funds to electrify black cabs through a green bond sale that is rumoured to have been oversubscribed by eight times. The company intends to use the funds for developing [...]
BT boss Gavin Patterson misses out on £290,000 bonus after company fails to meet customer service targets

May 19, 2016

BT chief executive Gavin Patterson lost out on a £290,000 bonus thanks to the company missing its customer service targets last year. Customer experience is one of the measures the telecom giant uses to set its executives’ annual bonus, BT said in its annual report published on Thursday. The poor performance led to Patterson’s overall annual [...]
Weird or wonderful? Google just patented a “sticky technology” to protect pedestrians in self-driving car accidents

May 19, 2016

Google has patented a new “sticky” technology to prevent pedestrians in the event of an accident involving its self-driving cars. The tech giant says a sticky adhesive layer on the front end of its vehicle would prevent injuries to a pedestrian by reducing the impact of a car crash. The patent said: "The adhesive layer [...]

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