Five fintech firms scoop combined £25m from RBS competition fund June 14, 2019 Five fintech firms have been awarded a combined £25m from an RBS competition fund designed to boost business banking competition. Codat, Fluidly, Form3, Funding Options and Swoop Finance were all given £5m in Pool D of the £775m fund, where the focus shifted to the commercialisation of fintech. Read more: Metro, Starling and Clearbank win [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Rab looks like Havlin the time of his life after Mehdaayih wins May 30, 2019 DECISIONS, decisions, decisions. At Epsom’s Breakfast With The Stars event last week, Frankie Dettori said he would wait for as long as he could before deciding who he would ride in today’s Investec Oaks (4.30pm). Earlier this month, in the Cheshire Oaks, the Italian partnered Fanny Logan over stablemate MEHDAAYIH, but he was left toiling [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Beckett’s De Vega fillies to raid Irish Oaks at the Curragh July 18, 2019 OVER in Ireland, there is some top-quality action from the Curragh tomorrow with the Irish Oaks (5.10pm) the highlight. Iridessa looks likely to go off favourite after her impressive win in the Pretty Polly Stakes on her last start. She looked to relish the step up to 1m2f that day and if she can handle [...]
Watches of Switzerland targets £660m London listing May 21, 2019 Luxury retailer Watches of Switzerland said today it is targeting a London float that could hit a valuation of £660m. The company sells luxury watch brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe, Cartier and Hublot. Read more: Jaguar sues watchmaker Christopher Ward over D-Type watches It has 125 shops in the UK and 21 in the [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Sir Dragonet has come a long way since Tipperary win May 31, 2019 WITH no less than seven runners in Saturday afternoon’s Investec Derby (4.30pm), Aidan O’Brien has a very strong chance of securing a record equalling seventh win in the world’s most famous Flat race. O’Brien’s runners have been popular in the betting since the end of last summer and ante-post punters may have already invested in [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Rain the biggest threat to Mogul’s Vertem Futurity Trophy challenge October 24, 2019 TRAINER Aidan O’Brien has won the last two renewals of tomorrow’s Vertem Futurity Trophy (3.25pm) at Doncaster and was responsible for an astonishing 11 of the 12 entries at Monday’s five-day declaration stage. The master of Ballydoyle has whittled that challenge down to just five now with only Andrew Balding’s Kameko standing his ground against [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Sinjaari to make Fleeting visit to the winners’ enclosure June 19, 2019 NEWBURY’S London Gold Cup is always one of the hottest handicaps of the season. It nearly always goes to a highly progressive horse who is likely to ply his or her trade in Group company later in life. Roger Charlton’s Headman, who won under top-weight at Newbury last month, is doing that already by taking [...]
Investec’s share price bucks FTSE fall as new co-chief executives Fani Titi and Hendrik du Toit take over from Stephen Koseff and Bernard Kantor February 6, 2018 South African bank Investec, which has a weighty presence in the City, has become the latest institution to appoint co-chief executives as its “founding members” prepare to hand over to the next generation. Fani Titi, former non-executive director and chairman of Investec, and Hendrik du Toit, an executive director and the founding chief executive of [...]
FTSE 100 leaps after WHO eases coronavirus fears January 24, 2020 The FTSE 100 stormed ahead today, more than clawing back the losses incurred yesterday as investors’ fears over the spread of the coronavirus mounted. The World Health Organisation yesterday stopped short of declaring the outbreak in China an emergency for the rest of the world. European equities gained in response today, before posting further jumps [...]
Rolex giant Watches of Switzerland begins London IPO debut with £650m valuation May 30, 2019 The UK’s largest seller of Rolex watches has begun life as a listed firm in the Square Mile today, having priced its shares towards the top end of the range it had targeted. Investors start trading in Watches of Switzerland on the London Stock Exchange today after the firm priced its shares at 270p, valuing [...]