Halifax and Barclays increase mortgage rates amid Budget jitters Move means best priced sub 4% deals are fast disappearing from the market Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2024
Brexit was a 'disaster' that cost the City of London 40,000 jobs, says Lord Mayor Cities such as Dublin, Milan and Amsterdam have all gained at London’s expense Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2024
Chancellor summons City bosses to No 11 for infrastructure taskforce relaunch Exclusive: Rachel Reeves will meet senior City figures on Friday to discuss funding of national investment projects The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2024
City maps out its future as a Square Mile of restaurants, pubs and bars The City looks to rival the West End as a place to go out with friends and colleagues late into the night Evening Standard · Oct 13, 2024
Labour’s challenge is complicated by the triumph of finance. That’s bad news for UK plc To get the necessary investment, Labour must bring the financial sector onboard while diluting its often malign influence The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024
Starling Bank fined £29m for ‘shockingly lax’ financial crime controls Challenger bank apologises after City regulator says lack of checks ‘left system wide open to criminals and those subject to sanctions’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2024
New Lord Mayor of the City of London pledges to promote growth and risk taking Lord Mayor elect warns on competitive threat to the City as the world’s top financial hub if it does not rediscover its “national edge in innovation.” Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2024
How City high-flyers have helped to fuel UK wine-growing boom Annual production more than doubles as office workers quit to snap up vineyards or blocks of land The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024
N.Y. Law Mandating That Delivery Services Share More Customer Data with Restaurants Violates First Amendment From today's opinion by Judge Analisa Torres (S.D.N.Y.) in Doordash, Inc. v. City of New York: When a diner orders… The post N.Y. Law Mandating That Delivery Services Share More Customer Data with Restaurants Violates First Amendment appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Sep 24, 2024
Lack of City of London oversight hurting efforts to halt dirty money, FCA warns Bodies responsible for monitoring accounting and legal sectors not doing enough to stop money laundering, watchdog says The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2024
Former NYC Covid czar attended sex parties while shaping pandemic guidelines ‘The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then,’ Dr Jay Varma can be heard saying in one clip The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2024
Georgia A.G. Drops Frivolous Money Laundering Charges Against Cop City Bail Fund The three defendants remain under indictment for racketeering, along with 58 others. Reason · Sep 20, 2024
Fintech has transformed consumer finance; now Britain’s banks need to step up business banking City Voices: London’s banks aren’t for the needs of modern business owners Evening Standard · Sep 20, 2024
Man City Brace For Inter Reunion As Akanji Fears 'Tough' Schedule Manchester City are braced for their Champions League reunion with Inter Milan at the start of an expanded tournament that will be "so tough" for the 2023 winners. International Business Times · Sep 17, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2024 Financial leaders and party insiders warn Starmer: we need less gloom, more optimism PM told his downbeat tone risks putting off investors and that his conference speech must temper realism with hope
The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2024 Malaga warns shirtless tourists to cover up amid overtourism row Posters in the city also ask visitors to not be ‘conspicuous’ out in public
Evening Standard · Sep 10, 2024 Labour is losing the big investors it is desperate to court City Comment: Time for a concession to optimism
Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2024 Lloyd's of London half-year profit up by £1 billion in boost for the City London insurance marketplace’s exposure to Baltimore bridge disaster put at £500 million
The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2024 Banks warned over denying sex workers business accounts FCA gives detailed guidance to lenders after hearing lack of access could lead to ‘significant harm’ for individuals
Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2024 London's pubs revival is in danger of unravelling City comment: The margins of many hospitality businesses already thinner than a cigarette paper
The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024 Thames Water asks to raise bills by £228 a year as regulators’ plan ‘not deliverable’ – as it happened Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as water company for southeast England says proposed cuts plan ‘is not tenable and renders our plan uninvestible’
The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2024 PwC fined £15m for failing to report suspected fraud at City firm Fine is FCA’s first against an auditor and follows PwC being hit with £4.9m penalty over audit by another regulator
Al Jazeera · Aug 15, 2024 English Premier League 2024-25: Match schedule, start times, teams, format When does the Premier League start and who are the favourites? Who are the new player signings? Al Jazeera explains.
Reason · Aug 14, 2024 Limits on Carrying Objects in Marches Near Chicago Convention Aren't Unconstitutionally Vague “[C]ourts do not use vagueness doctrine to establish a rule that government cannot regulate anything until it classifies everything.”
Evening Standard · Aug 14, 2024 Rate of inflation rises to 2.2% in July in first increase this year Government statisticians say the rise was mainly caused by gas and electricity prices