Investment company Foresight Sustainable Forestry has struck a £167m deal to be taken private, adding to a growing list of London-listed firms set to exit the public market this year. …
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Softcat to offer new machine learning services with AI specialist Sysgroup
Softcat has partnered with artificial intelligence specialist Sysgroup, in a move bosses hope will expand its machine learning customer-base. The companies have entered a strategic partnership which will see Sysgroup …
Bloomsbury reckons new acquisition will be ‘game-changing’ for Harry Potter publisher
The publisher behind Harry Potter books has boosted its academic publishing arm with the $83 (65m) acquisition of Rowman & Littlefield. Bloomsbury Publishing, which, as well as JK Rowling’s series, …
Home REIT tenant surrenders hundreds of properties after regulatory probe
Scandal-hit property investor Home REIT has struck a deal to claw back hundreds of leases from a major tenant facing a probe from the charities watchdog. In an update to …
Rare tech win for London as Teeside firm Time to Act floats
Green tech engineer Time to Act floated on the Aquis Stock Exchange this morning (Wednesday) in a tiny boost for London’s listed tech sphere. The Teeside firm, which operates in …
Big banks shun small business lending as large firms prioritised
Data shared exclusively with City A.M. has suggested that big banks are set to withdraw even further from funding small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) this year, as high street lenders …
Celebrity influencer endorsements continue to backfire
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. The latest …
Election leaves litigation funding Bill in limbo. What’s next for the multi-billion pound industry?
After a huge push from the third-party funding industry to introduce a new law on litigation funding, the Prime Minister’s decision to call a snap election has put the process …
I loved ‘national service’, but Sunak’s scheme doesn’t pass muster
Volunteering for the RAF under a little-known scheme in the 80s was like a Boys’ Own adventure for Andy Blackmore, but an under-funded, under-resourced reboot won’t get the results Rishi …
The unspoken truth about pensions
Neither party is willing to face up to the fact that when it comes to state and public sector pensions, there really is no money left, says James Price General …