Royal London: AI set to take key roles in asset management November 20, 2025 AI is poised to take on some of the traditional roles in asset management, and the sector can no longer ignore it. Royal London Asset Management’s chief data officer, Rob Middleton said firms need to stop skirting the conversation and accept that the shift is already reshaping how teams work. “We have to attempt to [...]
Nvidia: UK staff get £45m as shares rocket November 20, 2025 Staff at the UK-headquartered arm of Nvidia received a boost of almost £45m thanks to a generous share save scheme which has since been significantly upgraded. Since 2012, the US chipmaker has allowed its employees to have up to 15 per cent of their earnings withheld to buy shares in the company at a 85 [...]
Shoplifting ‘epidemic’ and AI data centre demand help Mitie revenue surge November 20, 2025 Rising demand for shop security guards and AI data centres have helped drive a surge in sales for security and engineering services company Mitie. The FTSE 250 business, which has more than 80,000 staff, saw a 12 per cent rise in revenue from security services to £580m in the six months to end September, fueled [...]
PUMA Partners with Logistics Reply to Accelerate AI-Driven Innovation in Warehousing November 20, 2025 Logistics Reply, the Reply group company specialising in innovative supply chain, has extended its collaboration with global sportswear brand PUMA to further optimise daily logistics operations and enhance user experience through the integration of GaliLEA, an AI-powered assistant built on the LEA Reply™ platform. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251120676732/en/ [...]
Ex-Microsoft Privacy Head Julie Brill and MIT’s Daniel Weitzner Join Ethyca Board to Advance Context-Aware Data Infrastructure for AI November 20, 2025 Ethyca, the enterprise software company building context-aware data infrastructure for the AI era, today announced the appointment of Julie Brill, Expert-in-Residence at Harvard, former Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft, and former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and Daniel Weitzner, Director of MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, [...]
Verne and Nscale Announce 15MW AI Infrastructure Deployment to Accelerate Sustainable AI Infrastructure Growth in the Nordics November 20, 2025 Nscale selects Verne for major liquid-cooled GPU deployment to expand Europe’s AI capacity
FTSE 100 Live: AI boom continues, JD Sports update November 20, 2025 Good morning from the City AM liveblog team. Among the least-desired accolades for a company chief executive is to see their firm’s share price rise the moment they announce their departure. Unfortunately for him, the latest exec to have been dealt this honour is the boss of WH Smith, Carl Cowling, who yesterday watched the [...]
UK startup growth clashes with Labour’s immigration reforms November 20, 2025 More than half of Britain’s fastest-growing startups are founded by immigrants, as global talent continues to power the UK’s entrepreneurial engine even as ministers tighten migration rules. New analysis from the Entrepreneurs Network shows that 54 per cent of the UK’s top 100 fastest-growing companies have at least one foreign-born founder, a sharp rise from [...]
Mark Kleinman: Can Osborne usher in a golden era for HSBC? November 20, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Can Osborne usher in a golden era for HSBC? George Osborne’s words to his Chinese audience were clear: “Through the ups and downs, let’s stick together. Let’s stick together to grow our economies. Let’s stick together to make [...]
Nvidia smashes expectations as AI demand ‘shows no signs of slowing’ November 19, 2025 Nvidia shares jumped by over four per cent in after-hours trading, after the chipmaker delivered another blockbuster set of quarterly results. The tech behemoth comfortably beat Wall Street forecasts that reinforced the strength of the global AI boom. For the three months to 26 October, Nvidia reported earnings of $1.30 (£1.04) per share, ahead of expectations [...]