If freezing rail fares is vital for cutting the cost of living, why are transport costs in London rising sharply? Asks James Ford As part of his latest, desperate relaunch, …
AI will end the ‘fish disco’ thinking that’s strangling Britain
The bottleneck to progress isn’t engineering, it’s an absurd inability to consider trade-offs that has led to decisions like spending £140m to save the life of a single salmon. AI …
Rent control law to ‘knock £11bn’ off commercial property
New legislation introducing rent controls could lead to £11bn being stripped from commercial property values, fresh analysis has shown, in the latest blow to the confidence for investors. The government …
Star stockpicker Nick Train buys more shares in his Finsbury Growth trust
Star fund manager Nick Train has ploughed over £200,000 into his struggling Finsbury Growth and Income Trust, in a further show of support for the 100-year-old trust’s investment strategy just …
Labour MP Callum Anderson: Securing Starmer’s visit to London Stock Exchange took months
Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Callum Anderson, Labour MP and former adviser to the London Stock Exchange, takes us through …
Are we facing an AI jobs apocalypse?
Police in Cornwall are on the hunt for a masked vandal seen on CCTV spraying “AI will take our jobs” across multiple sites in the villages of Polbathic, Widegates and …
Mark Kleinman: What’s in store for the Square Mile in 2026?
Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Not great, not awful: a fair summary of my corporate predictions …
UK fintech stamps its authority on Europe but faces global threats
The UK tightened the grip on its European fintech crown in the last year but came under growing pressure from fast-growing competitors ramping up their influence. A surge in investment …
Zilch to Acquire Fjord Bank to Kickstart European Expansion
Zilch, the consumer payments platform powering the future of commerce, today announces it has signed an agreement to acquire AB Fjord Bank, a Lithuania-based bank with approx. $120M in total …
Badenoch accuses Starmer of lying as Abramovich row erupts
Kemi Badenoch has accused Keir Starmer of lying about her shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson amid a furious row about funds in Roman Abramovich’s frozen bank account designated for Ukraine. …