Clarkson’s Farm and why businesses must stop blaming the weather June 25, 2026 Jeremy Clarkson’s instinctive and consistently wrong approach to running his farm is typical of British business leaders. There is a better way, says Rob Anderson You may think Clarkson’s Farm, the Amazon smash hit following the urbane petrolhead’s frustrated efforts at rural life, is ostensibly a lighthearted reality show. But it’s also the best business [...]
Brexit ten years on: my journey from Remain to Leave June 25, 2026 I voted Remain despite having serious reservations about the EU. A decade on, I believe Brexit has strengthened Britain, says Nigel Biggar I am an icon of Brexit, it seems. In 2019, Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London, contributed ‘Biggar vs Little Britain’ to a collection of essays entitled Embers [...]
New City venue rethinks competitive socialising… again June 24, 2026 You barely need to leave the Square Mile these days to play sport, with so many iconic sporting games accounted for in the City in one way or another. There’s axe throwing, darts, bowls, golf, and now the latest City competitive socialising launch is a new pool hall. Poolhouse has been designed by the teams [...]
Taktile Secures $110M in Goldman Sachs-led Series C to Power AI Transformation in Financial Institutions June 24, 2026 Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives backs Taktile as a leading enabler of AI-driven efficiency and performance gains in banks and insurers.
Alphabet to join Dow Jones in rare index reshuffle June 24, 2026 Alphabet will replace Verizon Communications in the Dow Jones Industrial Average next week, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on Wednesday, in the blue-chip index’s first structural change since Nvidia displaced Intel in 2024. The Google parent’s Class A shares will join other members of the so-called Magnificent Seven including Nvidia, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft in [...]
City festival with comedy and line dancing arrives in Square Mile June 24, 2026 Line dancing, comedy and a panel discussion entitled “Shit I’m in my 30’s: What’s the plan for retirement?” are some of the events taking place at the Leadenhall Building this summer, as the annual Leadenhall Live festival returns. Running 23 June – 16 July, the festival programmes more than 30 events over the course of [...]
IMU Biosciences Selects Waters to Advance Breakthrough AI Immune Mapping Platform to Transform Early Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Precision Medicine June 24, 2026 IMU’s AI platform unlocks unprecedented immune insights for cancer and other diseases, measuring 100M+ data points from a single blood sample, analyzed in real time.Waters Biosciences’ technologies, including BD FACSDiscover™ and BD Rhapsody™ Instruments, will be used with IMU’s AI analytics in research to deliver deeper, population-level disease insights.Partnership supports IMU’s expansion of its world-leading immune dataset through large-scale studies, establishing a new standard for immune profiling.
Pigment boss: ‘We’re replacing legacy players at the speed of light’ June 24, 2026 Eléonore Crespo, co-founder and chief executive of Pigment, said the company is replacing legacy enterprise software providers “at the speed of light”, as demand for AI-native business planning accelerates across the private sector. The Paris-headquartered platform, which helps companies including Unilever, Siemens, Anthropic and Coca-Cola run financial planning and performance management, is approaching $100m (£75m) [...]
How compliance leaders are guarding the truth in the AI era June 24, 2026 The rapid acceleration of the digital landscape is presenting the financial sector with a dual challenge, where keeping pace has become about managing the sheer volume of data trailing in its wake. Compliance and risk teams are currently navigating a huge shift. Teams are moving away from the traditional view of compliance as a back-office [...]
Morningstar Sustainalytics Enhances Physical Climate Risk Capabilities with XDI and Veridion June 24, 2026 Dataset is designed to translate asset-level climate hazards into risk metrics for investors