Humble Grape is up for two Toast the City Awards: Here’s why July 14, 2026 We have launched the Toast the City awards 2026 and throughout the year we’ll be speaking to some of our amazing Finalists – today it’s Enya Buchenau, marketing manager at Humble Grape and Vivat Bacchus. To vote for your favourite Square Mile spots for the 2026 awards, from bars and restaurants to galleries and green [...]
Wimbledon: HMRC set to slap Sinner and Noskova with £1.6m tax bill July 13, 2026 Wimbledon winners Jannik Sinner and Linda Noskova have been slapped with whopping multi-million pound tax bills after bagging £3.6m apiece at the All England Club. Sinner defended his title with a four-set win over French Open champion Alexander Zverev on Sunday while Noskova toppled Czech compatriot Karolina Muchova in three sets on Saturday. Both picked [...]
‘Brutal onslaught’: Brewery McMullen’s takes aim at Reeves’ tax hikes after pub sell-off July 13, 2026 One of the UK’s biggest family-owned brewers has taken aim at Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ tax hikes after it sold off more than a quarter of its pub estate. Hertfordshire-based McMullen’s, which owned over 100 pubs before offloading 30 of them in January, has warned it is likely to struggle to stay profitable in the years [...]
Businesses slam brakes on hiring over Burnham uncertainty July 13, 2026 The UK’s lofty tax bill and concerns surrounding the direction of an Andy Burnham premiership have led to a subdued jobs market, new research suggests, as employers pause hiring whilst they wait for further clarity on the likely incoming Prime Minister’s tax policies. Available jobs in London slumped five per cent in the second quarter [...]
KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to UK Logistics 2026-3 DAC July 10, 2026 KBRA UK (KBRA) is pleased to announce the assignment of preliminary ratings to five classes of UK Logistics 2026-3 DAC, a CMBS single-borrower transaction. The collateral for the transaction is a £603.0 million participation in a £753.0 million limited recourse, first lien mortgage loan, originated in June 2026 by Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, Standard [...]
U.K. Firms Make Cyber Resilience Measurable July 10, 2026 Boards and regulators push enterprises to prove response readiness and operational impact as AI-enabled threats grow, ISG Provider Lens® report says
Ruleguard Launches Continuous Assurance Platform to Help Financial Services Firms Move Beyond Periodic Compliance July 9, 2026 Ruleguard today announced the launch of its Continuous Assurance Platform, designed to help financial services firms transition from periodic compliance cycles to continuous, real-time regulatory oversight. Regulatory expectations have been shifting for years. Firms are increasingly required to demonstrate not only that controls are in place, but that oversight is embedded within day-to-day operations. Most [...]
Mark Kleinman: Nationwide’s pride should be dented by member election bid July 9, 2026 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his City AM column Nationwide’s pride should be dented by member election bid ‘Proud to be different’, ran the long-running Nationwide advertising slogan. Well, quite: it’s hard to see any of Britain’s big high street banks making quite the same mess [...]
Top Tory slams ‘ivory tower’ financial regulators as takeover bids blight London Stock Exchange July 8, 2026 The shadow business secretary has hit out at “ivory tower financial regulators”, accusing them of failing to spend enough time dealing with the problems facing London’s capital markets and hampering UK competitiveness. Conservative MP Andrew Griffith blamed watchdogs like the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for the state of the London Stock Exchange, which was blighted [...]
London is Open for Business – But Only If We Get Planning Right July 8, 2026 Nearly seven years ago, Central London Alliance was founded on a simple premise: London needed to fight for its own recovery. At the time, Tony Matharu assumed it might take eight months. It has taken considerably longer – and the fight is not over. In the latest episode of London Talking, Tony sits down with [...]