The high five: your guide to the most valuable start-ups June 13, 2019 It was the year of America’s 200th birthday, of a scorching heat wave in the UK followed by a huge sterling crisis, and it was the year that the only unelected president in US history, Gerald Ford, went down at the polls to the former Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter. Less remarked at the time [...]
Sharp rise in property values for UK’s top shared office space providers January 28, 2019 The value of property owned by the UK’s biggest shared office providers soared by more than a third last year. In a sign of the growing flexible workspace market, the value of the industry’s top ten share office providers’ property jumped 35 per cent to £13.6bn last year. The new data, released by real estate [...]
Softbank Vision Fund sells entire stake in struggling chipmaker Nvidia February 6, 2019 Softbank’s Vision Fund has sold its stake in chipmaker Nvidia, which saw shares plummet after it cut its fourth quarter revenue estimate by $500m last week. In Softbank’s third quarter report it revealed that the drop in Nvidia’s share price following the forecast cut reduced the fund’s valuation gain by ¥299.5bn (£2.11bn). Read more: Chipmaker [...]
London’s shared workspace market is helping women to become business leaders December 11, 2018 London's flexible office market is growing. The last 18 months have seen a huge influx of startups and scaleups moving into these spaces, which cater to people who want more than just a part-time desk in order to be productive. To learn more about the appeal of shared workspaces, we commissioned an Economic Impact Report [...]
Softbank plugs $200m into European-focused Abu Dhabi tech fund February 18, 2019 Japanese investment giant Softbank is said to have stumped up half of the cash for Abu Dhabi state investor Mubadala's new $400m (£309.5m) fund for European tech startups. Mubadala, which has conversely contributed around $15bn to Softbank's $100bn Vision Fund, said last week that its venture arm would be launching the $400m tech fund this year. The move will involve a number of Mubadala's [...]
Is oil’s relationship with energy stocks slipping? October 21, 2019 Our chart of the month shows that the link between energy stocks and oil appears to be on the slide. What’s happening? Typically, the US energy sector trades in tandem with oil prices. The sector is largely made up of household names like Exxon and Chevron, involved in exploration and production. They are known as [...]
UK fintech unicorn Oaknorth to nail $440m round led by Softbank February 7, 2019 Japanese mega investor Softbank has led a $440m funding round in savings challenger Oaknorth, investing in the company via its $100bn Vision Fund. City A.M. understands the Clermont Group also participated in the round, which is expected to close tomorrow morning. The funding will be used to expand Oaknorth's SME loan origination and credit capabilities to banks and [...]
Take-up of London office space rises as 2018 ends with a ‘bang’ January 21, 2019 Take-up of office space in London soared in the final quarter of 2018, rounding off a year of bumper demand for the capital’s commercial property market. New figures from CBRE show that take-up in Central London for the fourth quarter of 2018 was 3.9m square feet (sq ft), marking a quarterly increase of 13 per [...]
Citigroup closes in on £1.2bn purchase of Canary Wharf headquarters February 17, 2019 Citigroup is in talks to buy its Canary Wharf headquarters for a reported £1.2bn in a major show of confidence in London’s status as a global financial centre. Citi is looking to secure the purchase of the 25 Canada Square skyscraper, which it currently leases, from owner AGC Equity Partners in a bid to double [...]
What Thomas Cook’s collapse tells us about the power of disruption November 4, 2019 Whilst the failure of UK holiday firm Thomas Cook was sudden and a considerable shock to many, the writing has been on the wall for some time now. Driven by technology and specifically by the advent of online booking and reservation systems, the travel industry has long been undergoing a radical transformation across each of [...]