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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Half of UK workplaces report mental health problems, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD)

March 2, 2017

Over half of British employers (54 per cent) have been approached by staff suffering mental ill health, a new survey by the Institute of Directors (IoD) has revealed. Ninety eight per cent of business leaders surveyed said good mental health is important to the performance of their organisation. However, just 14 per cent have a formal mental health policy [...]
International Personal Finance’s shares tank on profit dip and fear of FTSE 250 demotion

March 1, 2017

Shares in International Personal Finance tanked over 10 per cent today after it announced a drop in profits. The company, which is widely expected to be relegated from the FTSE 250, reported profit before tax of £92.6mn in 2016, compared to £116.1m the year before. Revenue rose 1.2 per cent to £755.9m, but the number of [...]
Steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal’s son-in-law Amit Bhatia is a Snap investor and he expects the IPO to boom

March 1, 2017

Snap's impending float will be mega successful, according to a London investor in the messaging app. Amit Bhatia, steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal's son-in-law and founder of Swordfish Investments, took part in a funding round in 2014 that valued the company behind Snapchat at $10bn (£8.13bn). "Far from looking to exit at IPO, I would look to add to my [...]
Keep calm and carry on: Deutsche Boerse boss confident about future as an independent company

March 1, 2017

Deutsche Boerse will keep calm and carry on following speculation that its planned £21bn merger with the London Stock Exchange could be called off, the German Group's chief executive has said. "We feel very well prepared as a company for the future," Carsten Kengeter said today. On Sunday night the LSE revealed it was is dispute with [...]
Burberry shares jump after Belgium’s richest man snaps up three per cent stake

February 28, 2017

Fashion darling Burberry's shares jumped today after reports that Belgium's richest man has snapped up a three per cent stake in the company. Shares rose nearly six per cent, the highest point since May 2015, after Albert Frere disclosed a stake in the trenchcoat maker. Known to be worth $4.9bn (£3.9bn), Frere also recently bought an undisclosed [...]
Revealed: David Cameron’s mornings begin with City A.M.

February 27, 2017

Last time we checked there were 1,456 reasons why City A.M. should be the first thing you read every morning, dear reader. And this week, we found another one: former British Prime Minister David Cameron starts his day reading our newsletters. City A.M.EN to that! Read more: Revealed: David Cameron's new jobs Cameron, who was [...]
The London-based Snap investor you never knew about

February 27, 2017

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Legendary investor Warren Buffett beefs up Apple stake buying 120m shares in 2017

February 27, 2017

The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, confirmed today that his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway has snapped up 120m shares in Apple this year. Buffett told CNBC that Berkshire's Apple stake was now worth about $17bn and amounted to 133m shares. “Apple strikes me as having quite a sticky product and an enormously useful product to people that use it, not [...]
Most successful tech entrepreneurs have set up their businesses by the time they’re 30

February 27, 2017

Are you a 30-something itching to set up a tech firm? Strike age and lack of experience off of your list of excuses because Europe's top entrepreneurs set up their companies by the age of 30. Despite often lacking financial expertise, the average age tech titans establish their company by is 29.7 years, according to research by [...]
Terra Firma boss Guy Hands on buying Agent Provocateur, dyslexia and moving on from multi-million EMI loss

February 27, 2017

In June last year, Terra Firma dropped a £1.5bn lawsuit against Citi over the acquisition of EMI. It is reported that Guy took a €200m (£168m) hit to his personal fortune as a result of the deal. The Terra Firma boss alleged that Citi misled him into overpaying for the music publisher in 2007. How’s [...]

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