Pfizer chief insists company did not delay vaccine results until after US election November 17, 2020 Pfizer’s chief executive has insisted the biotech company “didn’t conspire with anyone” to delay releasing its phase three trial results until after the US presidential election. Speaking at a New York Times conference today, Albert Bourla also said the company has already hit the required safety milestone for phase three trials of the vaccine and [...]
DEBATE: Has enforced working from home during the coronavirus pandemic benefited women in the workplace? September 9, 2020 For the City A.M. debate, Sheree Atcheson and Angelica Reyes Froment consider how work from home rules have impacted women. Sheree Atcheson, director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Peakon, says NO The notion that the coronavirus pandemic has given women the flexibility they yearn for is completely false. Thanks to entrenched gender norms, women [...]
Exclusive: Pandemic aftershocks will last two years, warns cabinet office advisor and City insider Mark Jankovich June 22, 2021 London serial entrepreneur Mark Jankovich arrived in the City in 1992, joined Coutts & Co and set up Delphis Eco fifteen years later. The South African national – who has been a member of the government’s Cabinet Office SME Advisory Panel for the last five years, serving three prime ministers – managed to turn his [...]
John McAfee’s death and the inevitable end of anti-scarlet pimpernels June 25, 2021 Crypto AM columnist Monty Munford bids farewell to his old friend and comrade John McAfee.
DeFi Hacks: A Cybersecurity Perspective October 28, 2020 The decentralized finance market (DeFi) has been one of the most explosive trends in the crypto industry since the ICO boom of 2017. Crypto-assets locked away in DeFi protocols over 2020 have increased by a staggering 1,740%, from $676 million to a peak of $12.44 billion – according to figures from Defipulse. This dramatic rise [...]
Coronavirus cases in London almost double the national average as R rate hikes to 1.4 January 8, 2021 Confirmed cases of coronavirus in London are almost double the national average, the latest official figures showed, as the capital continues to record the highest level of infection in the country. An estimated 1 in 30 Londoners were infected with coronavirus in the week after Christmas, according to data released today by the Office for [...]
Pfizer vaccine ‘appears effective’ against new Covid strains January 8, 2021 The Pfizer/Biontech Covid vaccine will likely work against a batch of new, highly transmissible coronavirus strains, the companies announced this morning. In a study published today, Pfizer and scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch said the vaccine appeared to be effective in neutralising virus mutations seen in the southeast of England and South [...]
Bitcoin bounces back to $58k level, and Ethereum breaks $3K May 3, 2021 A look back at the crypto week as Bitcoin steadies on $58 while second-placed Ethereum breaks $3k.
Electric cars will lead to a design transformation on the scale of iPhones & Apple laptops March 6, 2021 There was a golden age of car design that ran from the mid 1950’s to early 1970’s. Cars like the Jaguar e-type, Ferrari Dino, or Pontiac Firebird emerged; they were not only engineering miracles, but objets d’art. During this time, the imagination of the auto industry was running wild, setting out ambitious visions of the [...]
Lambeth to receive surge testing amid concerns over South African Covid mutation February 9, 2021 Extra coronavirus testing will be carried out in Lambeth following confirmed cases of the South African Covid variant in the south London neighbourhood. Surge testing and genomic sequencing will be carried out in the SE27 0, SE27 9 and SW16 2 postcodes in Lambeth. People living within the targeted areas are strongly encouraged to take [...]