Good news for Liverpool fans: BT Sport and YouTube to stream Champions League and Europa League finals for free online May 12, 2016 BT Sport will stream the Champions League and Europa League finals live on YouTube, allowing millions of fans not subscribed to the TV channel to watch the games for free. The decision follows reports that Uefa is concerned with poor viewing figures for the first season of BT Sport's £897m deal which took European football away [...]
After the EU’s O2-Three merger decision, five questions for the UK mobile market May 11, 2016 Hutchison’s bid for O2 has been turned down in Europe. Here are five questions the UK mobile market is asking today Continued competition… Ofcom initially rejected the merger based on evidence that fewer competitors results in less pressure to keep prices down. It’s that same fear which informed today’s decision, despite assurances from Hutchison of a five year [...]
O2 – Three merger blocked by European Commission May 11, 2016 The European Commission competition regulator has blocked the planned takeover of O2 by Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison. The deal would have seen Telefonica’s O2 merge with Hutchison's UK network Three in a deal valued at £10.25bn. The tie up would have reduced the mobile operators in the UK to three, leaving just Vodafone and BT’s EE to challenge the merged [...]
Japanese and European investment banks agree merger to create global M&A advisory May 9, 2016 A Japanese investment bank has agreed a merger with a European peer to create one of the world's largest listed M&A advisories. The combination of Japan's GCA Savvian and Altium creates a new international investment bank operating across ten countries, in cities such as London, Manchester, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York, Mumbai, Frankfurt and Tel Aviv. Read more: These two [...]
City Moves for 9 May 2016 | Who’s switching jobs May 9, 2016 Parker Fitzgerald Parker Fitzgerald (PFG), the specialist management consultancy, has appointed Patrick Gormley (pictured) to its executive board. Patrick will lead the firm’s global digital practice, which focuses on transforming the risk management and regulatory compliance functions of financial institutions through digital innovation, robotics, artificial intelligence and new technologies such as blockchain. Patrick joins PFG [...]
Parking mad: London parking spaces sold for over £200,000 May 8, 2016 LONDON is one of the world’s most expensive places to pay for parking space. On Brewer Street in Soho, for example, you could spend over £50 on just three hours of parking. That may be why some mysterious buyers have forked out as much as much as half a million pounds to buy a parking [...]
At the close: Steady as she goes on the FTSE 100? May 5, 2016 Markets were put through their paces today, but failed to hold onto early gains as the bad stories just kept on coming. The FTSE 100 closed the day up 0.1 per cent at 6,117.25 after starting with a 40-point ascent in the first 90 minutes of trading. The French Cac 40 slipped back 0.3 per cent [...]
BT pledges double-digit dividends until 2018 as full year profits and revenues climb May 5, 2016 Revenues and profits at BT have risen during a "landmark year" for the business – the best performance in seven years – and pledged double-digit dividends as far as 2018. Investors were pleased with the news: BT's share price was up 3.2 per cent in early trading. The figures Revenues for the full year climbed [...]
BT to invest £6bn in fibre, 4G and customer service May 5, 2016 Telecoms giant BT has pledged to invest "around" £6bn over the next three years to ramp up the UK's superfast broadband and 4G coverage. The group, which revealed strong results this morning and the promise of double-digit dividends for the next couple of years, said the investment would lift the country's coverage beyond 95 per cent of the country [...]
Deutsche Telekom’s share price slumps despite staying on target for full year numbers May 4, 2016 A strong performance in the US has failed to prop up German carrier Deutsche Telekom's share price this morning. Revenue and profits managed to beat estimates, with adjusted earnings climbing to €5.16bn (£4.1bn), against analyst expectations of €5.1bn and up 12.9 per cent year-on-year. Sales rose by 4.7 per cent to €17.6bn, versus analysts’ estimates of €17.5bn. The company also said it was on [...]