Brexit: ‘Frosty the no man’ to turn heat up on EU in Lisbon October 12, 2021 The UK government is set to double down on threats to suspend the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol today in what is likely to spark weeks of UK-EU fighting. Cabinet Office minister Lord David Frost will deliver an address in Lisbon this afternoon in which he will outline the UK’s current position on Northern Ireland Protocol [...]
Less than half of Brits think the UK will achieve net zero by 2050 October 11, 2021 Less than half of Brits think the UK will achieve its emissions target of net zero by 2050, according to a new report shared with City A.M. today. The report, by market intelligence firm Savanta, revealed that 42 per cent of the UK think the government’s pledge is ‘likely’, while 46 per cent think it [...]
Is Bitcoin season here? October 11, 2021 Bitcoin is currently changing hands for just below $57k, within touching distance of recent all-time highs over $64k.
So much going on in the fast-moving world of Bitcoin October 8, 2021 Jason Deane takes a glance over one very busy week for cryptocurrency.
Delphlyx: The start-up offering football bosses data analytics for dummies October 8, 2021 From Harvard graduates building bespoke programmes for Liverpool to the video analysis tools now available even to Sunday league coaches, 21st century football is awash with data. But what might have been overlooked is that some are drowning in it; while today’s club analysts and scouts may be data-literate, their older superiors frequently are not. [...]
Home working prompts Brewin Dolphin to abandon HQ relocation plans October 8, 2021 Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has scrapped plans to move its headquarters into the City after more staff adopt flexible working. The company first announced plans to move its head office in November 2019, according to a statement published yesterday. Brewin Dolphin said the original plan, formulated two years ago, was to move from Smithfield Market [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile today? October 8, 2021 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Brewin Dolphin Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has posted a new the wealth director to its 1762 team at 8 Waterloo Place in St James’s, London. Kam Bagga joins the ‘1762’ team, which offers wealth advisory services for [...]
Baroness Helena Morrissey on the skills professionals need to thrive in a post-pandemic world October 8, 2021 Something which you can always rely on in the City is constant change. However, the changes born out of necessity over the last year or so have left many of us feeling disconcerted, admits Baroness Helena Morrissey. “In some ways [change] is a good thing,” said Helena. “It allows us to get used to adapting, [...]
UK lifts travel advice against non-essential travel to 32 countries as rules are relaxed October 7, 2021 Bangladesh, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana and Malaysia are among 32 countries and territories for which travel advice based on the risk of coronavirus has been relaxed, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said. The UK will stop advising Britons to avoid all but essential travel to non-red list countries on Covid-19 grounds except in “exceptional [...]
Brussels tells France to cool post-Brexit row with UK over fishing licences October 7, 2021 Brussels has told the French government to calm its rhetoric over a fishing row with the UK, after Paris threatened to turn off power to the Channel Islands this week. The EU, and individual European governments, have reportedly told Emmanuel Macron’s government that the threats to shut off power to Jersey and Guernsey or to [...]