Forget retail stores – watch collectors now hang at the clubhouse December 3, 2025 Just past De Beers on London’s Old Bond Street lies an anonymous-looking door. Look through to the lobby beyond it and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was an office block where boring admin-y things happen. In fact, if you take the lift up, the doors open to reveal a calm, cream space. To your [...]
Klarna Set to Take off With Lufthansa Group, Bringing Flexible Payments to Travellers Across Europe and the U.S. November 27, 2025 Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, today announces a new multi-market partnership with Lufthansa Group, Europe’s leading airline group. The new agreement is facilitated by Klarna’s integration with Adyen, the financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses. From November, Lufthansa Group customers will be able to choose Klarna’s flexible payment options [...]
Reeves’ income tax decision to hit wealth creators, warns Castore CEO November 26, 2025 The co-founder of sportswear brand Castore has hit out at Chancellor Rachel Reeves for freezing income tax thresholds as a “way of delaying the inevitable impact for entrepreneurs and wealth creators”. Tom Beahon, who leads the Manchester-headquartered company alongside his brother, added that “you can’t build a growth economy by disincentivising risk taking”. Announced in [...]
Reeves plans stamp duty holiday in Budget to boost London listings November 25, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a stamp duty holiday for new listings on the London Stock Exchange in Wednesday’s Budget as the government ramps up efforts to revive the index. The move will wipe out the 0.5 per cent stamp duty tax investors are forced to pay upon buying shares that are newly [...]
The FTSE 100’s good year masks a much deeper problem November 24, 2025 The FTSE 100 has had a good year by recent standards. Up nearly 16 per cent, it has outperformed the S&P 500, Nasdaq, Stoxx 600 and Paris’s Cac. What’s more, three new listings in October even suggested that a well-documented dearth of IPOs was coming to an end. But a look below the surface shows [...]
Nearly half UK fintech founders consider shifting business overseas November 17, 2025 Rachel Reeves’ mission to garner favour with the fintech industry has faltered with founders blasting the government’s approach to the sector as they weigh a move overseas. The Chancellor has attempted to ramp up the UK’s status as a competitive hub in the global fintech ecosystem, but founders have said they are yet to feel [...]
Gen Phoenix and Dr. Martens Celebrate Four Seasons of Waste Reduction with the Launch of the Solar Flare Collection November 12, 2025 The fourth installment of the brands’ ongoing partnership, just in time for the holidays, expands the use of reclaimed leather to new categories, including the first Dr. Martens kids’ boot and bag crafted with Genix Nappa
Private equity could soon own a piece of major US law firm November 12, 2025 US law firm McDermott Will & Schulte is reportedly exploring a complex restructuring to allow private equity firms to buy a stake in what could be a major move in the legal market. The proposed structure, as reported by the Financial Times, involves creating a managed service organisation (MSO), a separate entity in which outside [...]
AngloGold Ashanti Q3 and Nine Months Ended 30 September 2025 Earnings Release and Dividend Declaration November 11, 2025 AngloGold Ashanti posts strong Q3 2025 YoY: • Gold production +17% • Total Cash Costs* flat in real terms • Adjusted EBITDA* +109% to $1.6bn • Free Cash Flow* +141% to $920m • Adjusted Net cash* of $450m • Q3 interim Dividend of $460m, or 91cps • Total dividends declared for 9 months YTD of $927m, or 183.5cps
Janus Henderson Announces Appointment of Financial Advisor and Legal Counsel to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors November 10, 2025 Janus Henderson Group plc (NYSE: JHG) (“Janus Henderson” or the “Company”) today announced that the independent special committee (the “Special Committee”) of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) has retained Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC as its financial advisor and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as its legal counsel. The Special Committee was formed [...]