Loss for talent: What impact does the London housing crisis have on start-ups in the City? July 30, 2024 Britain’s ongoing housing crisis has created a knock-on effect for start-ups, according to new research shared exclusively with City A.M., as small business owners begin to struggle to attract and retain talent. The research, which was conducted by fintech firm iwoca, highlighted that 22 per cent of the 500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) surveyed [...]
How our family’s passion for eco-friendly cleaning turned into a multimillion-pound business July 30, 2024 Have you ever wondered what the counter cleaning spray that you find on your local supermarket shelf is made of?
New trip can help Tiber go with the Flow July 29, 2024 FIVE days of Glorious Goodwood are likely to produce plenty of good betting opportunities, but the opening day’s feature, the Goodwood Cup (3.35pm), doesn’t look to be one of them. That’s because Kyprios, who has once again reasserted his dominance over the staying division after returning from injury, looks a tough horse to oppose as [...]
Sadiq Khan reveals stance on selling loss-making London Stadium to West Ham United July 29, 2024 The former Olympic Stadium has become a financial millstone for the London Legacy Development Corporation.
Coinbase UK Unit Fined for Insufficient Money Laundering Controls July 29, 2024 Each day, Coinrule will run through the state of the digital assets market for Blockbeat, your home for news, analysis, opinion and commentary on blockchain and digital assets. Coinbase’s UK arm, CB Payments Limited (CBPL), has been fined £3.5 million by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for breaching financial crime regulations. The fine was issued due [...]
Against the Olympics: Why we should stop worshipping elite sport July 29, 2024 Expensive, disruptive and just plain annoying, it’s time to stop hero-worshipping the Olympics, writes Anna Moloney Finally this month the Euros ended and I breathed a sigh of relief that I, a loud and proud hater of sport and fun, would no longer have my quiet evenings disrupted by the cheers of sporting enthusiasts. But [...]
Olympics is a chance to win business as well as medals July 29, 2024 If we can pick up friendships as well as prizes at the Paris Olympics, and help deliver successful and sustainable sporting events worldwide, we will feel the benefits here in the City, says Chris Hayward The greatest show on Earth – the Olympic and Paralympic Games – have begun. Over the next couple of weeks, the world’s best athletes will compete in Paris hoping to win medals, break records, [...]
Drax shares soar as firm announces buyback and expects profit at ‘top end’ of estimates July 26, 2024 Power generation group Drax reported an increase in profit in the first half and forecast that its earnings for the full year would come at the "top end" of expectations.
How Lucy Charles-Barclay turned Olympic pain into triathlon superstardom July 25, 2024 Lucy Charles-Barclay on how she fell into triathlon stardom and taking a step towards another world title at the London T100 this weekend. In a parallel universe, Lucy Charles-Barclay might be spending the next few days preparing to go for a fourth gold medal in open-water swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Aged 18, the [...]
‘So much of the world is controllable – sport isn’t like that. That’s the beauty of it’ July 25, 2024 A triathlon in London “just feels right”, says Alistair Brownlee, and he should know. The sport’s only double Olympic champion won gold on home soil in 2012 and it remains his fondest memory as an athlete. It also continued a proud tradition of British excellence in the swim-bike-run event forged by the likes of Tim [...]