UK faces £100bn bill to fix water system, warns watchdog chief October 11, 2022 It would cost hundreds of billions of pounds to develop a modern water system, warned the chief executive of the Environment Agency.
Just Stop Oil eco-activists fined £500 for gluing themselves to da Vinci’s Last Supper – and say artist would ‘AGREE’ with them February 8, 2023 Environmental protesters fined for gluing themselves to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper have said they believed the artist would have supported their actions. Five Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists were ordered to pay £486 each for criminal damage at City of London Magistrates’ Court, over a demonstration at [...]
Mark Kleinman: Proxies, a stock market exodus and a Kingfisher mystery April 18, 2024 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and is the man who gets the City talking in his weekly City A.M. column.
PM received £7,150 in gifts from Russian friend Lebedev as Mi6 raised security concerns March 13, 2022 Boris Johnson received £7,150 in gifts while he was London mayor from media mogul Lord Evgeny Lebedev at the same time Mi6 was raising security concerns about the Russian-British dual national, it has been revealed. Documents show Johnson received gifts like private jet flights to visit Lebedev’s Italian villa, chaffeur-driven cars and dinners in London [...]
Exclusive: Closing the gap between stakeholder expectations and corporate behaviour November 13, 2022 City A.M. revealed two weeks ago that six firms agreed to merge into a new stakeholder solutions entity that is backed by Falfurrias Capital Partners. The relatively unusual merger, given that six separate firms managed to reach a merger deal, involved Ballast Research, Hamilton Place Strategies, Flag Media Analytics, alva, Gotham Research Group, and Decode_M. The [...]
Navigating the online safety dichotomy will resolve the uncertainty of tech regulation December 14, 2021 Our daily, physical lives are increasingly interwoven with our online lives. This is especially true for young people and children. This can be a strength – as we’ve seen during the pandemic – but can also be a weakness. Just as there is a responsibility to ensure the safety of people in real life, there [...]
3 red flags for a workplace with a bad culture November 17, 2022 We hear a lot about culture at work these days. It’s a slightly hard-to-grasp term that can mean a number of things, from how well a company’s people are treated to its policies around diversity and inclusion, but essentially, culture is the company’s core values, traditions, attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs which are shared and upheld [...]
Arrests in The Hague after another night of anti-lockdown violence in The Netherlands November 21, 2021 Dozens of rioters have been arrested after another night of anti-lockdown disorder in the Netherlands, during which fireworks were thrown at officers in The Hague. The unrest came a day after police opened fire on protesters in Rotterdam amid what the port city’s mayor called “an orgy of violence” that broke out at a protest [...]
Women in Payments Europe 2023 Unites Industry Trailblazers in London April 20, 2023 City A.M. is excited to announce that it will be a media partner for Women in Payments Symposium 2023. This year our symposium is taking place in London – Europe’s major fintech hub and a great place to host a major payments event for good reasons. As a leading global financial centre, the UK capital [...]
The serious money will be bullish on Fed decision that gave volatility back to crypto markets November 3, 2022 DeVere chief Nigel Green explains why the price of Bitcoin surged and then pulled back following Fed Chair Jerome Powell's latest speech.