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Digital economy

  • Spotify’s revenue slow down will lead to 600 job losses, as tech giant becomes the latest to cull staff

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    Spotify will be cutting its global workforce by nearly six per cent with around 600 people expected to lose their jobs. The music streaming platform has joined fellow tech giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Twitter in laying off staff, with tens-of-thousands of workers being laid off in recent weeks. Last November Meta, the owner [...]

  • Govt drags feet with new digital markets bill

    cma changes

    A new report by MPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee has called on the Government to push forward with a draft Digital Markets Bill that would allow regulators to take a more proactive approach to curbing big tech dominance. The bill would enshrine the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Digital Markets Unit (DMU) [...]

  • Despite economic gloom more than 800,000 new firms were created this year

    Business boom

    More than 800,000 new firms were created this year despite economic turmoil and grim prospects for the immediate future.  Online shopping was a key driver for the 98,000 new retailers which popped up in wake of the pandemic, as Covid unleashed a wave of entrepreneurialism.  Figures from private equity firm Growthdeck show 808,000 new businesses [...]

  • Deloitte to recruit 3,500 new consultants in £220m hiring spree

    September 20, 2022

    Deloitte is set to hire 3,500 new consultants as part of £220m plans to capitalise on surging demand for advice as businesses seek to navigate the digital and green transitions. The hires will see the Big Four accountancy firm’s increase the size of its consulting workforce by 40 per cent over the next half a [...]

  • Pensions, crypto and trust: digital assets and retirement funds

    August 16, 2022  |  City Talk

    Retirement planning is the primary objective of retail investors. Indeed, 47% of respondents in the 2022 CFA Institute Investor Trust Study indicated saving for retirement was their most important investment goal. Yet the conventional pathway to retirement savings — the traditional stock and bond portfolio — is not as effective as it used to be. Weaker diversification, [...]

  • London outpaces UK growth in May but signs of hard times begin to emerge

    June 13, 2022

    LONDON’S businesses outperformed the rest of the UK in May but there are signs staff shortages and inflation are starting to bite, according to a closely-watched business activity index. Natwest’s monthly tracker of both manufacturing and services suggests London’s businesses continued to expand last month but at the slowest rate since the ‘pingdemic’ last year. [...]

  • UK economic growth slows as GDP records 0.8 per cent between January and March

    May 12, 2022

    The UK economy grew by 0.8 per cent between January and March, down from growth of 1.3 per cent in the previous three months, the Office for National Statistics has said. Darren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), said: “The UK economy grew for the fourth consecutive quarter and [...]

  • UK’s tech regulator backtrack sparks mixed reactions across the City

    May 3, 2022

    Reports that the government has backtracked on strengthening the role of the UK’s tech regulator has sparked mixed reviews from the City today.

  • Combination of Covid, Brexit and transition towards net-zero economy to end decades of declining ‘job churn’ in UK

    January 6, 2022

    Decades of declining “job churn”, which has meant fewer risks and opportunities for workers, is likely to be upended in the decade ahead as the combination of Covid-19, Brexit and the transition towards a net-zero economy brings about major changes in the UK economy, according to a new report. In fact, the view that robots [...]

  • From price inflation and Brexit rows to Evergrande and Biden v Putin: Here are the market risks to watch this year

    January 4, 2022

    The world is a pretty turbulent and unpredictable place at the moment, with Covid variants not making life easier. From tensions between Russia and the US over Ukraine’s NATO membership to Brexit conflicts and China’s Evergrande property scandal, 2022 is set to become everything but dull. So what developments and issues could disrupt or disturb [...]

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