Lady Mayor Susan Langley: My career has been completely accidental November 13, 2025 Susan Langley is the City's first titled Lady Mayor. Today, fresh from her inauguration, she takes us through her Square Mile career.
Zilch Raises Over $175 Million to Accelerate Growth November 13, 2025 Raise includes the expansion of its credit facility with Deutsche Bank, as the UK and EMEA’s fastest-growing fintech unicorn plots next phase of its journey
Flexible offices to comprise a fifth of London market by 2030 November 13, 2025 A fifth of London’s offices will be made up of co-working sites by as soon as 2030, in a further sign of the extent to which the pandemic-induced shift in working patterns is reshaping the capital’s commercial property market. So-called ‘flex’ spaces currently represent just 12 per cent of the total London office market, but [...]
Christmas comes early for Young’s as party bookings surge November 13, 2025 One of the UK’s biggest pub groups has seen a surge in festive parties as the London-listed firm reported rising sales. Young’s, which operates nearly 300 pubs across London and the south of England, reported a 22 per cent rise in Christmas bookings compared to last year. “Christmas seems to be getting bigger every year,” [...]
TSB’s profit soars ahead of Santander takeover November 13, 2025 Profit at high street unit TSB Bank soared in the third quarter as the lender readied the ground for its blockbuster takeover by Santander. The bank’s pre-tax profit hit £271m for the first nine months of the year – a 38.2 per cent jump from the same period in 2024. It came as the bank [...]
Burberry narrows losses as turnaround begins to show results November 13, 2025 Luxury fashion brand Burberry has narrowed its half-year operating loss in a crucial six months for the struggling company. Burberry reported revenue of £1.03bn in the 26 weeks ended September 2025, it told markets this morning, down three per cent from £1.09bn last year. Shares rose 2.55 per cent in early trades. The FTSE100 giant [...]
Robert De Niro: Nobu reveals major London plans amid UK push November 13, 2025 Robert De Niro’s hospitality brand is open to considering new luxury residences in London after the success of its restaurants and hotel, the firm’s co-founders have exclusively told City AM. Nobu Hospitality first launched in London in 1997 with a restaurant at Old Park Lane. That was followed by a hotel and restaurant in Portman [...]
Squint hard enough and you can see signs of the AI bubble bursting November 13, 2025 Is the AI bubble bursting? Naturally, most eyes are on the movements of the world’s biggest tech firms – the OpenAIs, the Microsofts, the Nvidias. These are, after all, where a large share of AI investment has been deployed. But for the earliest tell-tale signs, it’s worth looking a lot further down the food chain. [...]
Starmer promised a calmer politics – how’s that working out? November 13, 2025 They say that if you’re explaining, you’re losing. That quote, attributed to Ronald Reagan, came to mind yesterday as I watched Keir Starmer squirm his way through howls of laughter in the House of Commons as he insisted “we are a united team.” This was fish in a barrel stuff for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, [...]
Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2025: How ADGM has become the MENA region’s largest financial centre November 13, 2025 Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) 2025 will highlight the emirate’s status as a primary global financial hub, as it transitions to an established ‘Capital of Capital’. The event, which will take place from 08 to 11 December 2025, is titled ‘Engineering the Capital Network’ and has been designed to showcase Abu Dhabi’s decade of phenomenal [...]