City firms send workers home as heatwave melts London June 24, 2026 City firms have told their workers to stay away from the office this week as London is hit with a record June heatwave. Several multinational companies headquartered in the Square Mile have advised their employees to consider remote work in a bid to dodge the sweltering heat. Banking giant JP Morgan Chase is the biggest [...]
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 [...]
Brentford in talks to host Shakhtar Donetsk Champions League fixtures June 24, 2026 Brentford are among the clubs in talks to host Shakhtar Donetsk’s home fixtures in the Champions League next season. The Ukrainian club are prohibited by Uefa for safety reasons from staging their European games in the war-torn country and last season hosted teams in Krakow, Poland. But Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium has emerged as a [...]
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.
Reef Origin, Xange.com and NOXXO Founders Launch Origin Assets to Finance Sustainable Real-World Assets June 24, 2026 Founders combine a $40B+ asset pipeline, environmental market infrastructure, and payments technology to deliver tokenized climate impact investments
LivaNova to Announce Second-Quarter 2026 Results June 24, 2026 LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, will host a conference call to discuss its second-quarter 2026 results on Wed., Aug. 5, 2026, at 1 p.m. London time (8 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time). The Company will release its second-quarter 2026 results prior to the call. The audiocast will be accessible at www.livanova.com/events. Listeners [...]
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) [...]
Burnham’s new chief of staff ran City firm advising Thames Water and rival Heathrow bidder June 24, 2026 Andy Burnham’s likely chief of staff will move to Downing Street from a lobbying firm that counts Thames Water and the rival bidder for Heathrow’s third runway as clients, just as ministers mull decisions that could decide both organisations’ fate. James Purnell is widely tipped to become Burnham’s most senior right-hand man should the Makerfield [...]