City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? September 15, 2021 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Falcon posts City veteran Joe Nally to board Falcon Oil & Gas has posted Cenkos co-founder Joe Nally as a new non-executive chairman to the board of the company with immediate effect. Nally, a City veteran, [...]
What will you be doing on City Giving Day? September 15, 2021 Every year City Giving Day celebrates the value of the City to society and shows how businesses can make a difference, as part of our bid to create a fair society. This year’s City Giving Day on Tuesday 21st September will champion activities – whether corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, or volunteering initiatives. The Lord Mayor’s [...]
Tower Hamlets council approves plan to build shopping mall on Brick Lane September 15, 2021 Controversial plans to build a shopping mall on the site of the historic Truman Brewery on Brick Lane have been given a green light. At a meeting of the Tower Hamlet Development Committee yesterday councillors voted 2-1 in favour of a proposal to redevelop the Brewery as a five story office building and retail space. [...]
Tower Hamlets council approves plan to build shopping mall on Brick Lane : CityAM September 15, 2021 Controversial plans to build a shopping mall on the site of the historic Truman Brewery on Brick Lane have been given a green light. At a meeting of the Tower Hamlet Development Committee yesterday councillors voted 2-1 in favour of a proposal to redevelop the Brewery as a five story office building and retail space. [...]
Sunak: Private equity raid on UK businesses ‘good news’ for economy September 14, 2021 Foreign investment firms’ recent surge of interest in British listed companies is a “sign of confidence” in the UK economy, chancellor Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday, while also touting British fintech and life sciences companies as “globally best in class.” On the same day that Clayton, Dubilier & Rice cemented its pole position in a [...]
Are regulators starting to embrace digital assets? September 14, 2021 Writing for Crypto AM, Jonny Fry examines the regulation of cryptocurrencies and points to what a future under scrutiny could look like.
Exclusive: Estonia’s PM firmly rejects Bitcoin, despite fierce lobby from Coinbase and crypto industry September 14, 2021 Estonia is widely considered to be one of the most likely contenders to regulate crypto in the EU first. After all, welcoming Bitcoin and other virtual currencies into its payment infrastructure would fit in nicely with Estonia’s ambitious digital agenda and its much-talked about e-residency program. However, the country’s prime minister – Kaja Kallas – [...]
60 Seconds With… Fashion guru and placemaker Yasmin Jones-Henry September 14, 2021 Yasmin Jones-Henry works in the space where fashion meets finance, and where culture meets commerce. She has made her name describing the crucial role culture can play for the new generation of investors, and putting forward the business case for diversity in the fashion and culture sectors. Through her work with Futurecity, a ‘placemaking agency’, [...]
City broker Peel Hunt to IPO on UK’s AIM by end of the month September 14, 2021 Peel Hunt, the London broker for mid and small-cap companies, is to float on London’s AIM market following a pandemic-fuelled trading boom. The employee-owned group has announced it will go public by the end of the month, in a bid to raise money for its expansion plans, which include a move into Europe. As well [...]
Vodafone: We need to focus on the tech we already have to tackle climate change rather than gambling our future on innovation September 14, 2021 The United Nations Climate Change conference – better known as COP26 – has forced us all to keep climate change at the front of mind. The world is awash with public and corporate pledges to be net zero. But in order to do this in a fair and equitable way, there will need to be [...]