Peel Hunt boss renews calls for tax cuts to rescue ailing public markets June 11, 2025 The boss of City broker Peel Hunt has called for a raft of fresh tax cuts for London’s stock market to help stem the flood of delistings and end the dearth of flotations. CEO Steven Fine called for stamp duty on share trades to be abolished in a bid to help “shift this doomloop of [...]
Exclusive: Coinbase to ‘hire like crazy’ in the UK June 11, 2025 Coinbase is ramping up its UK presence with plans to hire more staff and deepen investment, as the country moves towards a new era of crypto regulation and increasing mainstream adoption. “We’re going to be hiring like crazy in the UK”, Coinbase’s UK lead Keith Grose told City AM, before adding that London will continue [...]
UK GDP growth expected to slide after Awful April June 10, 2025 The UK economy is expected to have contracted in April as the double whammy of tax hikes and higher energy prices help reverse the 0.7 per cent growth gains seen in the first three months of the year. A Bloomberg poll of economists said City analysts are pencilling in a 0.1 per cent reduction to [...]
The high-profile non-doms that have quit Britain since the Budget June 6, 2025 If the pleas of wealth advisers and tax lawyers are to be believed, since the Chancellor’s Autumn fiscal crackdown, non-doms have been leaving Britain in droves. We’ve listed the most high-profile departures since the Budget. Having made it almost exactly halfway through her maiden Budget, the UK’s first female Chancellor was beginning to find her [...]
Will the Bank of England’s quantitative tightening torpedo Reeves’ fiscal rules? June 5, 2025 Rachel Reeves is in a pickle. At under £10bn, the Chancellor’s self-imposed fiscal headroom – the Treasury’s wiggle room within its fiscal rules – is already wafer-thin by historic standards. And it is under intense strain, given a recent slew of billion-pound government spending pledges such as reversing winter fuel payments cuts and scrapping the [...]
UK small companies funds surge as government bonds sink June 3, 2025 Funds invested in tech stocks and UK small companies jumped significantly last month, while government bond-focused funds failed to make returns amid tremors in the Treasury market. Tech funds returned nine per cent during May, while UK smaller companies funds rose 7.3 per cent, making them the two best performing sectors, according to data from [...]
IG Group: First crypto trading launch for UK-listed firm June 2, 2025 IG Group has become the first UK-listed company to launch crypto trading to retail investors, with the FTSE 250 firm debuting the feature amid a surge in policy pitches meant to woo digital currency investors. Customers on the trading platform can now buy, sell and hold crypto assets, with IG Group charging 1.49 per cent [...]
Reform’s new crypto plan: politics ‘the driving force’ June 1, 2025 While Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was busy wooing the Bitcoin aficionados in Sin City, Las Vegas, party chairman Zia Yusuf faced the much less glamorous task of selling the UK media their new crypto plan. “This is not about turning the UK into some alt-coin scammers paradise,” Yusuf said. This follows the Reform party’s [...]
Reform will make the UK a crypto powerhouse May 29, 2025 Reform will turn the UK into a crypto powerhouse – and take young voters seriously, writes chairman Zia Yusuf.
The best Stocks and Shares ISAs May 28, 2025 Stocks and shares ISAs enable you to invest within a tax-free wrapper, but the best provider will depend on your individual needs. Cash ISAs pay interest on your savings, but Stocks and Shares ISAs offer a tax-free way of earning returns on your investments. So if you’re willing to take a little risk, they could [...]