Cloudflare’s AI Workspace Platform Partners with Leading Applications and Deployment Teams to Make AI Productive in the Enterprise October 19, 2026 New integrations and partnerships bring secure AI workflows to the tools companies already use every day
Goldman Sachs to host Badenoch for City charm offensive October 19, 2026 Kemi Badenoch will step up her business charm offensive after the Budget with a roundtable hosted by Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, City AM can reveal. The Tory leader will co-host a lunch for founders, investors and chief executives from across the UK alongside Goldman Sachs International’s chief executive, Anthony Gutman, City AM understands. The [...]
City of London urged against business rates hikes to cover £70m shortfall October 19, 2026 The City of London Corporation has been warned that hiking business rates to cover its £70m budget shortfall would undermine the Square Mile’s global “competitiveness”. The local authority is weighing up whether to increase the business rates multiplier it charges businesses in the Square Mile, but a member of its finance committee has warned that [...]
Mercedes pips Coutts, KPMG, Deloitte and Howden at Evelyn Partners Padel Cup October 19, 2026 Sports stars, professional padel players and some of the City’s keenest racket-swingers descended on Canary Wharf last week for the second Evelyn Partners Padel Cup. More than 150 people filled out high-end club Padium for an afternoon of friendly yet fierce competition between Square Mile firms followed by an evening programme featuring coaching clinics, an [...]
AI minister warned UK risks becoming ‘high-value AI customer’ October 19, 2026 Britain risks becoming a “high value AI customer” rather than developing its own tech unless ministers urgently invest in domestic firms, the government’s top science advisory body has warned. In a letter to AI minister Kanishka Narayan, the Council for Science and Technology (CST) called for a national AI sovereignty plan to reduce Britain’s reliance [...]
Silence Therapeutics Enters into Agreement to be Acquired by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany October 19, 2026 All-Cash Transaction Values Silence Therapeutics at Approximately $1.3 Billion Price of $20.00 Per ADS in Cash Represents 130% Premium to Silence’s Closing ADS Price on October 16, 2026 Transaction Delivers Significant, Immediate and Certain Cash Value to Silence Shareholders and ADS Holders
Bellingham leads $10m fund raise of Premier League-backed tech firm Rezzil October 19, 2026 Jobe Bellingham has led a $10m fund raise of Premier League-backed technology firm Rezzil. The 21-year-old Borussia Dortmund midfielder – whose brother Jude starred for England at the Fifa World Cup this summer – is part of the round alongside putting coach Phil Kenyon, who has worked with the likes of Rory McIlroy and Scottie [...]
FCA sounds the alarm on rise of unregulated AI financial advice October 19, 2026 The City watchdog is calling on AI providers to go further in protecting consumers as more people turn to the technology to make financial decisions. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is urging AI firms to do more to help consumers who are increasingly relying on generic platforms and chatbots, such as Gemini and Chat GPT, [...]
Does the Range Rover Sport Electric have the harder job? October 19, 2026 The full-size Range Rover Electric has the ultra-luxury EV market largely to itself. The cheaper, sportier Range Rover Sport Electric faces a far bigger fight, and JLR needs it to win. It has been quite a week for JLR. Jaguar finally revealed its £130,000 Type 01 in New York on Tuesday, but the car that [...]
IMU and UK Biobank to generate the world’s most detailed, large-scale picture of the human immune system for advancing research into health and disease October 19, 2026 IMU is collaborating with UK Biobank, Waters Corporation and Ultima Genomics to profile blood samples from an initial cohort of 80,000 UK Biobank blood samples IMU will generate more than 100 million immune data points from each sample to create the largest, most detailed immune dataset assembled to date The study will add a high-resolution immune profiling layer to UK Biobank’s existing de-identified genomic, imaging, clinical and lifestyle data to enable a better understanding of how immune variation relates to disease risk, progression, treatment response and long-term health outcomes