The first female boss of Marks and Spencer, Katie Bickerstaffe, is to step down from the business, the retail favourite has confirmed. Bickerstaffe joined the high-street darling just over two …
Estate Planning
Admiral posts 23 per cent jump in profit on price hikes but lowers dividend
Insurer Admiral has posted a surge in profit as it reaped the benefits of price hikes, offsetting the impact of higher claims inflation. However, investors were rewarded with a lower …
Spring Budget 2024: UK Silicon Valley dreams far off say tech bosses
“We’re on track to become the world’s next Silicon Valley,” declared chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his Spring Budget announcement on Wednesday. Alongside a 2p cut to National Insurance and the …
Bitcoin’s Brief New All-Time High Sparks Bull Market’s First Liquidation Cascade
Each day, Coinrule will run through the state of the digital assets market for Blockbeat, your home for news, analysis, opinion and commentary on blockchain and digital assets Tuesday evening reminded us …
Ed Warner: The future of athletics is fluid but ripe with opportunity
It wouldn’t be a World Athletics Championships if there wasn’t a slew of confected controversies to fill the media vacuum ahead of the first race. This time it was long …
UK’s gender investment gap now bigger than the entire GDP of Argentina
The gap between the amount invested by men and women widened again this year to £567bn, £54bn more than last year and largely due to young men investing far more …
FTSE 100: What’s moving markets today?
Moving markets today: Asian shares rise with Wall Street, bitcoin hits $69,000; Fed’s Powell holds rate cut stance, ECB policy in focus U.S. stocks wrapped up on a positive note …
Letter to the editor: Be careful what you wish for
[Re: The Notebook: The Conservative Party has forgotten what it once stood for, 4 mar] I always enjoy City A.M’s The Note Book column. Opinions from those across the spectrum …
The Budget shows signs that the election won’t be complete procession
Well, it wasn’t overly dramatic, but it wasn’t bad either. Reading between the lines in yesterday’s Budget however does give some cause for optimism that the election will not be …
Square Mile and Me: Priya Oberoi on leaving law to take on women’s health
Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, Priya Oberoi, founding general partner at Goddess Gaia Ventures, takes us through her career from …