UK inflation rises above two per cent target as energy costs increase May 22, 2019 The UK’s core inflation rate climbed to 2.1 per cent in April, as rising energy costs pushed up by the higher Ofgem price cap fed into dearer prices in the economy, official statistics have revealed. Read more: UK economy bounces back, but is growth just a ‘flash in the pan’? Traditionally, inflation above the Bank [...]
Ollie Phillips: Johnny Sexton’s battle with Owen Farrell will decide heavyweight Champions Cup final May 9, 2019 The Champions Cup final is all set to be a momentous clash, with Europe’s two outstanding sides going head to head in an almost impossible-to-call showdown ob Saturday. It’s a most fitting decider. Defending champions Leinster are going for an unprecedented fifth title, while Saracens are aiming for a third in four years. Read more: [...]
City Moves for 3 April – who’s switching jobs at Finastra, Trustpilot and Softomotive? April 3, 2019 Who’s on the move today? Finastra Finastra has announced the appointment of Sharon Doherty as chief people officer. Sharon joins from Vodafone, where she held the position of global organisation and people development director. In her new role at Finastra she will have global responsibility for making Finastra the most inclusive employer in the fintech [...]
Big Four must face up to the realities of reform or risk having no choice April 3, 2019 A couple of MPs managed to tear themselves away from Westminster's slow motion car crash yesterday to deliver a kicking to another scandal-hit sector of the British establishment. Labour chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee Rachel Reeves and Conservative MP Antoinette Sandbach addressed a packed auditorium at the Chartered Accountants’ Hall near [...]
UK economy rebounds in January but longer term growth remains weak March 12, 2019 The UK economy grew faster than expected in January, with GDP expanding 0.5 per cent, newly released figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. This marked an improvement on December 2018, when GDP shrank by 0.4 per cent. Read more: OECD slashes growth forecasts and warns of no-deal Brexit recession January’s figure was [...]
Ollie Phillips: Champions Cup qualification would be fitting end to groundbreaking campaign for Bristol May 2, 2019 The Premiership’s top two sides, Exeter and Saracens, may be meeting this weekend but with just two games to go the drama lies elsewhere. The two outstanding teams are streets ahead and I think will meet in the final on 1 June but the other 10 sides still have lots to play for. Read more: [...]
Ollie Phillips: Champions Cup qualification would be fitting end to groundbreaking campaign for Bristol May 2, 2019 The Premiership’s top two sides, Exeter and Saracens, may be meeting this weekend but with just two games to go the drama lies elsewhere. The two outstanding teams are streets ahead and I think will meet in the final on 1 June but the other 10 sides still have lots to play for. Read more: [...]
UK employment hits record high driven by women finding work April 16, 2019 The number of people in work in Britain hit a record high in the three months to February 2019, driven mainly by more women finding jobs, pushing up wages as firms kept hiring during political impasse in Westminster. Read more: Employment rate jumps to record high Britain’s unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points in [...]
Thomas Cook: Watchdog mulls whether to probe collapsed airline’s accounts September 24, 2019 Britain’s accounting watchdog is looking into investigating whether Thomas Cook breached accounting standards, after the travel giant collapsed yesterday. Nearly 15,000 people returned to Britain yesterday on specially-chartered flights after the firm collapsed under the weight of a £1.7bn debt pile. Read more: Was the collapse of Thomas Cook inevitable? The Financial Reporting Council said [...]
Magic Circle law firms launch gig economy-style offerings in uncertain legal market March 10, 2019 The UK’s leading law firms are betting on the gig economy to boost their growth with Linklaters and Clifford Chance joining Allen & Overy in setting up networks of self-employed lawyers to provide to clients on a flexible basis. Linklaters is understood to be developing a scheme to take advantage of its alumni network with [...]