BlackFin Capital Partners and Arendt Join Forces to Support the Expansion November 26, 2025 In a strategic move to accelerate the growth and international expansion of Arendt Investor Services (AIS), BlackFin Capital Partners (BlackFin) and Arendt have entered into a partnership that will see BlackFin become the majority shareholder of the company, subject to CSSF approval and other customary procedures, while Arendt retains a significant stake. This partnership marks [...]
Epassi Announces Leadership Transition November 26, 2025 Nickyl Raithatha to join as Group CEO Pekka Rantala to remain on Board as Non-Executive Chair
Jeremy Hunt issues Budget warning to Rachel Reeves November 26, 2025 Former Chancellor Sir Jeremy Hunt has issued a warning to Rachel Reeves hours before the Budget and revealed what he is most worried his successor will announce later today. The Conservative MP, who held the role under Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak from 2022 to 2024, also outlined his predictions for this year’s Budget including [...]
The future could still be golden for Amigo Loans shareholders November 26, 2025 It’s been a rough old ride for the shareholders of Amigo Loans. The company began life as a subprime, guarantor lender in 2005 and picked up a load of customers fast, helped along by its weird TV adverts featuring blue plasticine figurines. It listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2018 and the shares initially [...]
This isn’t a plan for business, it’s a Budget to save Reeves’ job November 26, 2025 Sacha Lord, a former advisor to mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham, bitterly regrets calling Labour “the party of business and growth” On 13th of June last year, I was stood in Manchester’s impressive NOMA building. It was the Labour Party’s manifesto launch. The place was a buzz with energy, excitement and hope. The full shadow [...]
Shein’s former head of Europe relocates from London to Dubai November 26, 2025 The former head of Europe at e-commerce giant Shein has become the latest British executive to relocate to Dubai, City AM can reveal. Cui He, who was director of Europe at Shein from the beginning of 2023 until last month, according to her LinkedIn profile, has shifted her residency from London to the United Arab [...]
Reeves must ignore political wailing and finally cut spending November 26, 2025 No amount of wishful thinking can change the economic reality. Reeves must make the hard decisions today, writes James Reed.
Tony Matharu, Chairman of Central London Alliance CIC Comments on the Rumoured Introduction of a London Tourist Tax November 25, 2025 It is not the cheerful Christmas bells jingling and the tidings of comfort and joy London can look forward to having, but the inevitable rattle of shutters slamming shut for the last time from the closed hospitality businesses whose metaphorical backs have been broken by the burden of another unjustified, economically harmful tax on London’s [...]
Reeves plans stamp duty holiday in Budget to boost London listings November 25, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a stamp duty holiday for new listings on the London Stock Exchange in Wednesday’s Budget as the government ramps up efforts to revive the index. The move will wipe out the 0.5 per cent stamp duty tax investors are forced to pay upon buying shares that are newly [...]
Autumn Budget: Will the UK keep its tech talent or drive it abroad? November 25, 2025 Time is running out for Rachel Reeves to reassure the sector she has spent months courting. With tax rises looking increasingly likely in Wednesday’s Autumn Budget, the mood across UK tech has shifted to concern, reviving the warning issued earlier this month by some of Britain’s most valuable founders: change course, or risk watching high-growth [...]