Musk’s $trillion pay package is impossible to justify November 11, 2025 The Notebook, where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today it’s investment analyst Susannah Streeter with the pen Radio phone-ins, social media feeds and TV news programmes have all been taken over by talk of Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar deal. I was woken super early by one producer and the phone barely stopped ringing, [...]
Vbrick Joins Polkadot sub0 SYMBIOSIS in Buenos Aires as Media Partner and Sponsor; CEO Paul Sparta to Keynote on Content Authenticity November 10, 2025 Vbrick, the leading end-to-end enterprise video solution provider, is proud to announce its participation in the upcoming Polkadot sub0 SYMBIOSIS conference, November 14-16, 2025, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As an official media partner and sponsor, Vbrick will power multi-lingual live streaming of the event and spotlight its Verified Authentic framework as a core innovation in [...]
Legal sector defies economic headwinds with rising headcount and profits November 10, 2025 Despite ongoing pressure on salaries and increases in employment taxes, legal firms have reported an average headcount increase of nearly 4 per cent over the past year. According to the ‘law firm benchmarking report’ by professional service firm Crowe, the headcount growth was concentrated among fee earners, but nearly half of firms reported either no [...]
Altman Solon Selects Mindbreeze to Power Knowledge Management and Collaboration Across the Organization November 10, 2025 Mindbreeze, a leading global provider of AI-based knowledge management solutions, today announced that Altman Solon, the world’s largest strategy consulting firm focused exclusively on telecommunications, media, and technology (TMT), has purchased Mindbreeze InSpire. The collaboration began in July 2025 with a trial of the Mindbreeze Insight Workplace, designed to unify Altman Solon’s SharePoint and web-based [...]
FTSE 100 and S&P 500 circle record highs as US shutdown cools November 10, 2025 Global markets sprung back to life on Monday after AI jitters and the US government shutdown helped trigger widespread sell-offs last week. The S&P 500 – which tracks the 500 leading companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States – jumped over one per cent to 6,804.80p at Wall Street’s opening bell. The tech-heavy [...]
Yubico to Accelerate Passkey Adoption with Identity Verification Partnerships, Bolstering Defense Against AI-Driven Fraud November 10, 2025 YubiKey as a Service to support IDV with HYPR and Nametag Unifying Secure Onboarding and Verified Trust
Reeves set to bring in US-style whistleblowing pay for HMRC November 10, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to reveal a US-style whistleblower scheme to combat large-scale tax fraud. Later this month, HMRC is expected to launch a reward scheme, according to the Financial Times, which could pay informants as much as 30 per cent of any taxes collected as a result of tip-offs. The new US-style incentive [...]
AI bubble tensions flare after Wall Street’s £750bn hit November 10, 2025 The bubbling market tensions continued to simmer on Monday as Wall Street sprung back to life after a week of AI jitters and tech nerves. US markets were coming off a week where AI-related firms lost over £750bn in market value led by a £350bn plunge in chipmaker Nvidia, which lost nearly ten per cent [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Diageo taps new top chief; private equity swoop November 10, 2025 Good morning from the City AM liveblog team, It’s a new week in the City and markets will be hoping for a recovery rally after tech jitters sent stocks deeper into the red on Friday. There’s a mixed bag of factors weighing on global indexes, namely the ongoing government shutdown in the US and the [...]
AI startups lead growth despite market jitters and IPO drought November 10, 2025 AI firms have driven a 44 per cent increase in the combined value of the world’s top 100 private tech firms, even as concerns grow that the AI boom could be overheating and Britain’s startups warn of a worsening funding climate. According to new data from PwC, the total valuation of the global top 100 [...]