Toast the City Awards 2026 finalists announced – vote now! July 16, 2026 It’s here: the Toast the City Finalists have been announced, with bars, restaurants, coffee shops, green spaces and more from across the City being celebrated in the Square Mile’s biggest and best awards. Now is your chance to vote for your favourite city spots – just visit our Toast the City website and cast your [...]
Elliptic Launches Next-Generation Continuous Monitoring, Giving Crypto Compliance Teams a Live View of Customer Risk Without the Flood of Alerts July 16, 2026 The only monitoring solution on the market that detects the full range of risk-changing events, not just label changes, and lets teams configure alerts to only what matters, cutting manual rescreening and alert triage by up to 75%
MultiBank Group Named Forex Broker of the Year 2026 at Money Expo Abu Dhabi July 16, 2026 MultiBank Group, one of the world’s largest and most regulated online financial derivatives institutions, has been named Forex Broker of the Year at Money Expo Abu Dhabi. The event was held on 8–9 July 2026 at the ADNEC Centre. This flagship award recognizes the broker setting the benchmark for excellence across the global trading and [...]
CFIT CEO: There’s still not enough diversity in the City July 16, 2026 Anna Wallace, CEO of the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology, gives us her views on the City in Square Mile and Me.
Options Technology Appoints Stephen Dorrian from Cboe Global Markets as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data July 16, 2026 Options Technology, the leading provider of high-performance trading infrastructure and market data solutions, today announced the appointment of Stephen Dorrian as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716325084/en/ Stephen joins Options from Cboe Global Markets, where he served as Head of Market Data and Access Services, [...]
Foxtons shares tumble as estate agent takes £3m knock from Renters’ Rights Act July 16, 2026 Foxtons shares have tumbled after the firm said it took a knock of as much as £3m from the introduction of the Renters’ Rights Act, amid a sharp uptick in tenancy terminations. The Act abolished fixed tenancy terms and increased tenant flexibility to terminate tenancies, sparking “elevated levels of tenancy terminations.” Foxtons, which also bemoaned [...]
UK economy grows despite Iran war hit July 16, 2026 The UK economy grew marginally in May after strong performance in parts of the services sector helped soften the impact of Iran war and narrowly prevented a contraction. Fresh figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed the economy grew 0.1 per cent in May, broadly in line with market expectations. The services [...]
Elite English firms face uphill battle in fierce New York market July 16, 2026 Elite City law firms face major financial and strategic hurdles breaking into the US legal market, as fierce competition for top talent and high partner compensation make organic growth and brand-building especially challenging, writes Maria Ward-Brennan Breaking into the US has been on the agenda of many elite English law firms, most notably four-fifths of [...]
Sushidog investor pumps seven-figure sum into golf sim brand ahead of Open July 16, 2026 A firm with investments in Sushidog and Smash Padel has pumped a seven-figure sum into a UK golf simulator company ahead of the Open Championship. Middleton Enterprises, the family office of HomeServe co-founder Jeremy Middleton, will invest upwards of £1m into TeeGo, a simulator firm looking to drive growth in indoor golf. The injection will [...]
Forget Burnham, what will Starmer do next? July 16, 2026 The end of a premiership means finding an epilogue, so what will Keir Starmer’s be, asks John Oxley Around the summer parties of Westminster, the key conversation is “What will Andy actually do?” The presumptive PM has always been something of a political enigma (or weathervane, depending on your perspective). He has been out of [...]