Alfa Financial Software up 24 per cent and could go higher March 10, 2019 By Graeme Evans from interactive investor Worth only a fraction of its £1bn peak, Alfa Financial is seriously undervalued, says this pro investor. Since taking the tech sector by storm in 2017 following its near-£1 billion IPO, days like today haven’t come around too often for Alfa Financial Software (LSE:ALFA). A year ago, its shares [...]
Exclusive: Deloitte hires senior Magic Circle partner to lead its push into the UK legal market January 14, 2019 Big Four accountancy firm Deloitte has hired a senior partner from the Magic Circle to lead its expansion into the UK legal market after announcing plans to target the sector last year. The audit firm has appointed veteran Allen & Overy banking partner Michael Castle as managing partner for Deloitte Legal to lead its UK [...]
Top City lawyer charged with two counts of fraud May 22, 2018 A former partner from the London office of a top US law firm has been charged with two counts of fraud. Jonathan Denton, a former partner of US law firm Locke Lord, has been charged with two counts of fraud in connection with conduct related to his time at the firm. Read more: Average prison [...]
City Moves for 1 November – who’s switching jobs at Oxx, Irwin Mitchell and Rabobank? November 1, 2018 Who’s switching jobs today? Oxx Oxx, the growth capital firm investing in B2B software companies, has appointed Daria Danilina as associate. Daria has joined Oxx with venture capital experience at Balderton and consulting experience at Bain & Company. Daria also has operational experience from her time at Dropbox, where she helped build the European sales [...]
From truffle trees to sunken treasure, beware of unregulated investments in your pension January 23, 2019 Self-invested personal pensions, or Sipps, give us the freedom to invest in what we want. But while this DIY approach to pensions appeals to many investors, there are mounting concerns that some Sipp providers are doing customers a disservice by allowing inexperienced investors to allocate their savings to unsuitable schemes. Liberty Sipp is the latest [...]
Is your local M&S closing? Full list of the store closures announced today January 31, 2018 Marks and Spencer announced this morning that it is shutting down a raft of its stores. Here is a full list of the stores set to close by the end of April: Stores closing by April Birkenhead Bournemouth Durham Fforestfach Putney Redditch M&S said staff from these stores will be moved to other outlets nearby. [...]
Finalist November 9, 2022 Start-up of the Year supported by World Mobile Swash Swash is reinventing data ownership through new incentivisation streams and a collaborativedevelopment framework, governed by the ethos of Web 3. It enables individuals, developers, and businesses to cultivate new realities of data ownership and value creation. It is the largest data unionin the market with over [...]
Tessian, a tech startup using machine intelligence to transform email security, lands $13m series A from Balderton and Accel June 18, 2018 London-based cybersecurity startup Tessian has today announced the closing of $13m (£9m) in a series A round, led by Balderton Capital and existing investor Accel Partners. Top venture capital firms like Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane, and LocalGlobe among others also participated in the round. A tech startup with its founders’ roots in investment banking, Tessian’s [...]
Ollie Phillips’ Premiership preview: Saracens still the side to beat but Gloucester and Leicester are on the rise August 30, 2018 The Premiership kicks off tomorrow evening when new boys Bristol take on west country rivals Bath and I’m excited as ever for a new campaign. While it’s Bristol getting things under way, it is likely to be Saracens and Exeter who duke it out at the top of the table again. Last season’s champions Saracens have [...]
Post-Weinstein can the legal sector change its secretive cover up culture March 25, 2018 In the less than six months since Ronan Farrow published his explosive New Yorker expose on movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, behaviour that would previously have been hushed up or talked about in whispers in the media and business world is now being exposed to the cold light of day. The legal sector is no different [...]