By: Will Railton

I'm deputy money editor at City A.M. I focus on personal finance and investing. I'm particularly interested in macroeconomics, pensions and politics. Contact me at william.railton@cityam.com.

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Caught on camera: Video etiquette for the office

April 18, 2016

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Brazil’s economic woes won’t end with Rousseff

April 18, 2016

Brazil's stock market, the Bovespa, remained relatively unchanged in early trading, despite expectations it would rally following Sunday's congressional vote to impeach beleaguered president Dilma Rousseff. The surprise reaction may have signalled a balancing out of two conflicting influences affecting the oil-dependent country. News of Rousseff's impeachment had been expected to buoy markets, but the [...]
Mobile is a hot topic (again) as Advertising Week Europe comes to town

April 18, 2016

"This will be the year of mobile” has been a multi-year meme in the ad industry, but there’s some logic to it. Since the first iPhone captured consumers’ imaginations in 2007, each subsequent year has truly been the year of mobile, with app developers inventing new uses for these palm-sized computers, marketers observing how these devices [...]
Making global local: Maxus’s Lindsay Pattison talks India, inequality and the long term

April 18, 2016

"Media is the fastest growing area of marketing. We are the link now between advertising and sale, and everyone wants a piece of the action,” says Lindsay Pattison, global chief executive of Maxus. The fourth arm of WPP’s Group M – the world’s largest advertising media company, which buys one in every three adverts sold – [...]
Corporate co-working: How big firms can benefit

April 15, 2016

You may already be familiar with the basic concept of co-working – shared office clubs, which provide businesses with the flexibility to grow at their own pace and a community to readily tap for business leads, assistance and ideas. Once the preserve of freelancers and startups in deepest Shoreditch, today co-working clubs can be found [...]
Corporate co-working: How big firms can benefit

April 14, 2016

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Tighter EU data laws could cost companies millions

April 14, 2016

EU citizens are to be given more control over how their personal data is stored and kept by companies, and have the right to have their online presence deleted entirely, following the European Parliament's decision to overhaul old privacy laws. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), voted through earlier today, will extend the right to [...]
The three leadership skills to take your business digital

April 14, 2016

It would often seem that, to succeed in the digital world, you need to be a young manager in a startup born with digital DNA, like Alibaba, Uber or Google. This is not the case. Research I have conducted indicates that many traditional companies are successfully transitioning to become digital companies, steered by executives with greying [...]
With March’s inflation figures the strongest since 2014, should we be prepared for a rapid rise in the coming months?

April 13, 2016

Andrew Sentance, senior economic adviser to PwC and a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, says Yes. Once again, deflation has been the dog which hasn’t barked in the UK. Inflation is gradually coming back. The headline rate is 0.5 per cent, but the underlying rate – excluding volatile food and energy [...]
SOS not iOS: Our personal operating systems need an update

April 12, 2016

We all understand what happens if we have a sluggish operating system on our smartphone, tablet or laptop. It’s slow, or at worse just crashes. An operating system is the most important software that runs on these devices. It manages the memory, processes, and all of the software and hardware. The need to download the latest [...]

National League 3Up bid takes step forward and gains Nandy backing

Two-job Townsend is on the brink but deserves break from Scotland fans

The unlikely City florist that once served the royals

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