London’s heatwave is a boon for Lime bikes June 24, 2026 As temperatures climb across the capital and commuters look for ways to avoid stuffy Tube carriages, London’s heatwave is turning into a major boost for the micromobility industry. Lime, the Uber-backed e-bike giant preparing for a New York stock market listing, has seen demand surge as Londoners swap public transport for two wheels. During May’s [...]
City firms send workers home as heatwave melts London June 24, 2026 City firms have told their workers to stay away from the office this week as London is hit with a record June heatwave. Several multinational companies headquartered in the Square Mile have advised their employees to consider remote work in a bid to dodge the sweltering heat. Banking giant JP Morgan Chase is the biggest [...]
UK banks fear a ‘disaster’ with Ed Miliband as Chancellor June 24, 2026 City banks are fretting over the prospect of Ed Miliband as Chancellor as Andy Burnham mulls who he will give the keys to Number 11. The banking industry is bracing for a shake-up at the Treasury and fears it could be hit with a fresh raft of taxes under a new Chancellor while key deregulatory [...]
Taktile Secures $110M in Goldman Sachs-led Series C to Power AI Transformation in Financial Institutions June 24, 2026 Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives backs Taktile as a leading enabler of AI-driven efficiency and performance gains in banks and insurers.
Reef Origin, Xange.com and NOXXO Founders Launch Origin Assets to Finance Sustainable Real-World Assets June 24, 2026 Founders combine a $40B+ asset pipeline, environmental market infrastructure, and payments technology to deliver tokenized climate impact investments
Starmer defends ‘treacherous’ Reeves and Miliband despite Badenoch jibes June 24, 2026 Sir Keir Starmer jumped to the defence of senior Cabinet ministers Ed Miliband and Rachel Reeves despite brutal attacks by the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch. In one of his last Prime Minister’s Questions, Starmer defiantly stood by the Chancellor, who sat on the front bench alongside him, and praised her for “breaking from austerity” and [...]
City festival with comedy and line dancing arrives in Square Mile June 24, 2026 Line dancing, comedy and a panel discussion entitled “Shit I’m in my 30’s: What’s the plan for retirement?” are some of the events taking place at the Leadenhall Building this summer, as the annual Leadenhall Live festival returns. Running 23 June – 16 July, the festival programmes more than 30 events over the course of [...]
IMU Biosciences Selects Waters to Advance Breakthrough AI Immune Mapping Platform to Transform Early Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Precision Medicine June 24, 2026 IMU’s AI platform unlocks unprecedented immune insights for cancer and other diseases, measuring 100M+ data points from a single blood sample, analyzed in real time.Waters Biosciences’ technologies, including BD FACSDiscover™ and BD Rhapsody™ Instruments, will be used with IMU’s AI analytics in research to deliver deeper, population-level disease insights.Partnership supports IMU’s expansion of its world-leading immune dataset through large-scale studies, establishing a new standard for immune profiling.
Pigment boss: ‘We’re replacing legacy players at the speed of light’ June 24, 2026 Eléonore Crespo, co-founder and chief executive of Pigment, said the company is replacing legacy enterprise software providers “at the speed of light”, as demand for AI-native business planning accelerates across the private sector. The Paris-headquartered platform, which helps companies including Unilever, Siemens, Anthropic and Coca-Cola run financial planning and performance management, is approaching $100m (£75m) [...]
How compliance leaders are guarding the truth in the AI era June 24, 2026 The rapid acceleration of the digital landscape is presenting the financial sector with a dual challenge, where keeping pace has become about managing the sheer volume of data trailing in its wake. Compliance and risk teams are currently navigating a huge shift. Teams are moving away from the traditional view of compliance as a back-office [...]