Google DeepMind partners with the government on AI innovation December 11, 2025 The government has struck a major deal with Google DeepMind which will see UK scientists gain priority access to its AI technologies. The Alphabet-owned AI giant will also create a new AI system aimed to cut government bureaucracy, and develop a version of Gemini – Google’s largest AI model – to be integrated into schools. [...]
Big Tech cashes in on £1 trillion ad market boom December 11, 2025 The global ad market is booming, with spend forecast to reach $1.19 (£1.04) trillion in 2025, up 8.9 per cent from last year, according to WARC’s recent report. Growth is projected to accelerate to $1.30 trillion in 2026 and $1.40 trillion by 2027, a doubling in size since the pandemic. But while the market is [...]
Janine Hirt: Brits network differently to Americans December 11, 2025 Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Janine Hirt, CEO of Innovate Finance takes us through her career in Square Mile and Me What was your first job? I held down several odd jobs while working my way through university, including being a librarian, legal assistant, and a [...]
TNS Research Finds Consumers Around the World Want One Thing in Payments: Simplicity December 11, 2025 Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global leader in providing full-stack, modern and secure payment and network solutions, today released its Keeping Payments Simple: Exploring Consumer Demand for Seamless Payment Methods white paper, revealing that despite cultural differences in payment habits across the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, one clear consumer demand unites all markets: [...]
Forge UK to Become a Registered Auction Agent on the London Stock Exchange’s Private Securities Market December 11, 2025 New partnership expands access to private-market liquidity in Europe and enables Forge UK customers to participate in the London Stock Exchange’s new Private Securities Market under the UK’s PISCES framework
2025: It’s been one hell of a year for UK business December 11, 2025 From political drama to market volatility, cyber attacks, takeovers and trade wars – 2025 has not been plain sailing. January: motor finance and angry farmers We began the year reporting on the exodus from the London stock exchange noting that 2024 had been the quietest year on record for new listings and we suggested that [...]
Why this Californian company is listing in London December 11, 2025 As a high growth company with ambitious plans to expand our business, enter new markets and build on our commercial success to date, Power Probe wanted to select an accessible, capital-rich, and globally respected market that truly understands and nurtures ambitious smaller and mid-sized companies, says Chema Garcia Power Probe, a business that started life [...]
Mondo Duplantis: Pole vault star driving Bolt-like interest in athletics tickets December 11, 2025 Pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis is driving levels of demand for track and field tickets not seen since Usain Bolt, says UK Athletics. The national governing body says sales of seats at next summer’s London Athletics Meet increased by more than 1,000 per cent after it was announced last week that Duplantis would be competing. [...]
Rachel Reeves’ Budget was ‘monumentally mishandled,’ says London-listed bank December 11, 2025 A London-listed bank has given its scathing assessment of Rachel Reeves’ second Autumn Budget and warned of the impact it will have on consumer confidence. S&U – which was founded in 1938 and once known as Sports and Utilities – said the performance of its motor finance and property financing arms was “remarkably resilient given [...]
Sadiq Khan has derailed Labour’s nationalisation plans December 11, 2025 How is Keir Starmer’s plan to renationalise Britain’s railways going? Badly, if events in London are anything to go by. Yesterday we learned that Transport for London has awarded a £3bn, 10-year contract to First Group to operate the London Overground when the current contract with Arriva expires next year. That’s in direct conflict with [...]