Dividend powerhouse: Growth in Asia fastest in the world despite HSBC’s £6.1bn drop October 19, 2021 Looking at income, dividend growth in Asia Pacific has been significantly faster than the global average, up 139 per cent over the last ten years, compared to 109 per cent for the rest of the world. Dividend growth in South Korea has been surpassed only by Russia over that period. And this has continued during the pandemic, which has [...]
Senior Credit Suisse bankers flee to Barclays, Goldman and Citi after Archegos disaster May 19, 2021 About a dozen managing directors at Credit Suisse have recently left the banking giant or are in the process of doing so, with most of them poached by rivals including Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Citibank. Moreover, a range of senior bankers are expected to announce their departure in the coming weeks, with several others also [...]
The world in 2022: a map to global politics January 19, 2022 In 2022 the fault lines of global politics will be tested again. City A.M. and the British Foreign Policy Group chart the year ahead. If the pandemic taught us anything, it is the deep ramifications that one country’s domestic politics have globally. From the future of the French President to continual Chinese aggression, here we [...]
Andy Haldane became the media darling of economics, the Bank of England must continue his legacy June 20, 2021 After 32 years at the Bank of England, the current senior economist at Threadneedle Street – Andy Haldane – is moving on to new pastures. His departure as one of the top dogs at the Bank of England will leave the oldest and first central bank without his valuable experience. But as communication with the [...]
Cummings Confessional: Your bingo card ahead of former No.10 aide’s Westminster tell-all May 26, 2021 PM Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings is set to give evidence to a joint session of Parliament’s Health and Science Committees on Wednesday. The aide who shot to global stardom (eds: please check) with a now infamous trip to the ruins of Barnard Castle in Northumberland during the height of ‘Lockdown One’ is expected [...]
Sajid Javid’s sensible instincts to stop lockdowns must stay firm against the pessimists of Sage June 29, 2021 So farewell then, Matt Hancock, as Private Eye’s fictitious poet in residence, EJ Thribb, would have put it. The former Health Secretary seemed to relish relaying the doom laden projections of the epidemiologists’ worst case scenarios throughout the pandemic. There will be many within the Conservative back-benches who will welcome him into their ranks only [...]
Google Campus closes in the end of an era for London tech startups June 22, 2021 Google has decided not to reopen its London campus for startups, which formed part of the capital’s mini–Silicon Valley, saying it will offer services online. The coronavirus pandemic and working from home has likely swayed the decision to shut the seven-storey East London campus. “This shift demonstrated that, similar to the support we provide in [...]
SEC doubles size of digital asset unit as Argentina bars banks from crypto services May 9, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin started last week with a sharp move higher, to test the $40,000 mark.
Imelda is back: Remarkable comeback for widow of late dictator Marcos as former First Lady is set to become Philippines’ First Mother May 9, 2022 As polling stations in the Philippines are about to close, the son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos is set to become the country’s next president. His near-certain victory means a remarkable comeback for his mother, the legendary Imelda Marcos, who dominated Filipino politics, together with her husband, for over two decades before being forced into [...]
Post-winter split: 21 per cent more applications in March than January dispel divorce myth June 7, 2021 The number of divorce applications filed in March was 21 per cent higher than January, dispelling the belief that January is peak divorce month. From 2003 to 2020, there were 219,778 divorce petitions filed in the month of March, the largest number of petitions filed by month across the period, according to Ministry of Justice data analysed by law firm Boodle [...]