City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? September 8, 2021 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Exclusive: Kin Fund Services poaches secretarial lead from Flutter Alternative investment fund manager and fund administrator Kin Fund Services, part of Kin Group, has poached Deirdre Quinn from FTSE 100’s Flutter Entertainment, City A.M. can reveal. [...]
Get your Crypto AM Awards entries in now – only two weeks left! September 3, 2021 Bitcoin will lay down its marker in history next week when the flagship cryptocurrency becomes legal tender in El Salvador.
Why you should break out the tweed for the Glorious Twelfth August 10, 2021 In Britain, 12 August – AKA the Glorious Twelfth – is the first day of the season for red grouse. This is not just tradition but law: read the Game Act 1831 for further details. It is a day of great excitement and activity on our vast grouse moors, so big they account for nearly [...]
Sen Richard Shelby, 87, puts screws on US Crypto yet the market is green as he just united the whole industry to fight! August 10, 2021 Greetings from Mallorca where I’m trying to holiday whilst I contemplate my advancing years – soon to be scoring my half century. Meanwhile ageism is alive and well in the US as millennials scream at the top of their lungs that the boomers and their parents are screwing Crypto. Seriously though they might have a [...]
New frontier: UK renews outdated space policies as giants seek commercial travel July 29, 2021 The UK is set to start regulating commercial space travel from today, as an increasing number of companies look to capitalise on the race to the stars. Before appointing its first-ever space travel regulator, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), the global legal framework surrounding commercial space travel appeared a relic of the Cold [...]
Green and pleasant land? The future of cannabis use in the UK July 29, 2021 Smoking as a social activity suffered a heavy blow around 15 years ago. Between 2006 and 2007, the four parts of the United Kingdom brought in new laws prohibiting smoking in public places, with Scotland being the first to take the leap. I bear a sliver of responsibility: I worked for the House of Commons [...]
US steps closer to cryptocurrency tax after last-minute bill addition July 29, 2021 US senators are calling for cryptocurrency transactions to be taxed, in a bid to help pump $28 billion into America’s coffers.
If it can happen to Mark Cuban, it can happen to you July 23, 2021 Crypto AM's Jillian Godsil talks to 14 figureheads of cryptocurrency about DeFi and privacy.
Status quo anxiety: from Covid to foreign aid, we’re trapped by our desire to keep things the same July 23, 2021 Covid restrictions were relaxed this week, but it was far from universally supported. A group of academics wrote to the Lancet to condemn the move as a “dangerous and unethical experiment”. Some scientists warned that letting the virus run amok would create a fertile breeding ground for new variants and urged the government to once [...]
Media freedom: Hong Kong police arrest ex-editor of squashed Apple Daily July 21, 2021 Hong Kong police have detained two former senior staff of stifled pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, just hours after they arrested the paper’s former executive editor-in-chief. Apple Daily’s former deputy chief editor Chan Pui-Man and managing editor Fung Wai-Kong were arrested for a second time, according to local media reports. The pair had already been arrested [...]