Sophie Nelson: An ATP and WTA merger could be a true sporting force November 23, 2021 Rumours of a merger in the world of tennis between the ATP, which runs the elite men’s tour, and WTA, its women’s counterpart, are long-running. The pandemic amplified calls to unite the two organisations after the sporting calendar was disrupted and revenues impacted. A more unified system for the game could reap commercial benefits in [...]
Mauricio Preciado-Awad CA: Making a big impact with small change November 22, 2021 This article first appeared in ICAS’ CA magazine. UK social investment has grown sixfold in a decade, thanks in part to Big Society Capital using money from dormant bank accounts. Investment Director Mauricio Preciado-Awad CA tells Kitty Finstad about the big impact of small change If you were living in the UK around the time of [...]
60 Seconds With: Samantha Williams on the intersect of art and culture November 22, 2021 In this series of interviews I’ve been chatting with people who work at the intersect of culture and commerce in the City of London. Today I’m with Samantha Williams, who I met at the launch of PLAY project, a collaboration between the Guildhall Students, Culture Mile and Brookfield Properties. Williams, UK marketing manager for Brookfield [...]
London needs to have the powers to control its own destiny – and transport November 22, 2021 It is no longer headline news that Transport for London is facing a financial crisis. Last week the mayor of London revealed the network needed £1.7bn over the next 18 months simply to balance its books, and at least £1.3bn every year to make essential upgrades on the Tubes, trains and buses. This summer, Tfl [...]
Boris Johnson to force all new UK buildings to install EV charging points November 21, 2021 Owners of newly built homes and commercial buildings will be forced to install electric vehicle charging points from next year under new regulations to be announced by Boris Johnson tomorrow. The new regulations, which Downing Street says will lead to 145,000 extra charge points installed across England each year, will also extend to properties “undergoing [...]
Investor says NFTs are being ‘suffocated in the Ethereum bubble’ November 19, 2021 Alex Mitrovich is both an investor and an entrepreneur, but the latter definitely comes first, as Jillian Godsil discovers.
Don’t wait till after Christmas to sell your property November 18, 2021 There was a time when the property market could quite logically be split into seasons. But, such is the disruption to all our usual timetables and routines, that is no longer the case. The seemingly never-ending chain of events that impacted the the market in recent years, from tax changes and SDLT holidays to Brexit [...]
Grainger resilient against pandemic side effects as pre-tax profits soar November 18, 2021 The UK’s largest listed residential landlord Grainger has reported a higher pre-tax profit after revenue was driven by roaring housing demand. In results for the year ended 30 September, the property firm declared profit before tax up 53 per cent. What’s more, adjusted earnings rose two per cent while like-for-like rental growth saw a one [...]
The Analyst: Disney becomes the mouse that squeaked November 17, 2021 Ian Whittaker has been a City analyst for more than two decades, and what he doesn’t know about media, advertising and the creative services industry isn’t worth knowing. Here’s his latest monthly column for City A.M. Disney’s shares fell over 7 per cent the day after it published poorly received full year results (Disney’s financial [...]
September house prices show ‘last of stamp duty sizzle’ November 17, 2021 UK house prices leapt in the year to September in the run up to the final stamp duty holiday deadline, government figures show. HMRC’s latest house price index shows that house prices climbed 2.5 per cent in September and 11.8 per cent annually. The average price of a property in the UK was £269,945, hitting [...]