The City View: Sarah Gordon on impact investing July 10, 2020 Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS In association with ETX Capital Andy Silvester is joined by Sarah Gordon, a veteran business journalist turned CEO of the Impact Investing Institute. Sarah talks about the government’s response to coronavirus, the opportunity that could be taken to ‘build back better’ and businesses’ awareness of their ESG responsibilities. Andy [...]
Apple’s retail network pays just £6.2m tax on £1.4bn UK sales July 9, 2020 Apple’s UK retail arm paid just £6.2m in tax last year, despite raking in sales of almost £1.4bn as demand for its products boomed. Accounts filed today for Apple Retail, which manages its UK store network, showed revenue jumped 15 per cent in the 12 months to September 2019, despite not opening any new stores. [...]
The City View: The Summer Statement July 9, 2020 Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS Today Andy Silvester is joined by City A.M.‘s very own Rachel Cunliffe to digest the Chancellor’s summer statement. They touch on whether there might be dissent brewing on Tory backbenches, the scale of the spending plans, and whether it’ll be enough to fire up the UK economy. In association with ETX [...]
British tech firm Arm to offload IoT units to Softbank July 8, 2020 Chipmaker Arm is to spin off its internet of things (IoT) software and services divisions to parent Softbank, as it focuses on its core business. Japanese giant Softbank purchased the Cambridge tech firm in 2016 for £24.3bn. The deal triggered a review of foreign takeover rules in the UK after ministers became concerned the country [...]
The City View: Edwin Brenninkmeyer on private aviation July 8, 2020 Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS Today Andy is joined by Edwin Brenninkmeyer, Chief Executive of Oriens Aviation – a firm based out of London Biggin Hill Airport which operates and sells private jets. Edwin talks about the increased interest in business aviation after the Covid-19 crisis, his views on the future of travel as [...]
Hong Kong: All the tech firms pausing activity after China’s security law July 7, 2020 A host of tech giants have said they will be pausing the processing of requests by authorities in Hong Kong to review user data, following a strict new security law passed by China last week. China’s parliament has approved the national security law in Hong Kong, which pushes the city state towards a more authoritarian [...]
Ai: The Competitive Advantage July 7, 2020 In recent years, it seems most discussions centered around technology and business innovation inevitably end up debating the future potential of Artificial Intelligence. While the longer term upside is seemingly limitless, and there is much debate about what the future of what AI might look like, what’s less understood is how AI works today – [...]
Funding the Next Wave of Tech Startups July 7, 2020 Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have had their fair share of ups and downs in the past few years and for many they remain a mystery, poorly understood, and even feared. But since the recent bubble and crash of 2017/2018 there have been three years of soul searching, greater regulatory scrutiny, and a great deal of [...]
WFH: Is it the death knell for offices? July 7, 2020 Some real estate investors believe the successful working from home experiment during this crisis will lead to a long-term decline in demand for offices. We think this is premature. One of the more mundane aspects of the coronavirus has been the sudden evacuation of offices and mass adoption of home working. In the US it [...]
Tiktok exits Hong Kong as US ponders banning the app July 7, 2020 Tiktok is to remove its app from Hong Kong, as other technology firms say they will stop processing data requests from authorities in the city state. Tiktok, which is owned by Chinese giant Bytedance, said it had made the decision to exit the region after China approved fresh national security law for the region last [...]