“This is tick-box justice and we should totally reform the system.” Penelope Gibbs, a former magistrate and director of campaign group Transform Justice, was referring to the Single Justice Procedure,…
As Rachel Reeves spoke with buyout bosses and venture capitalists in Leeds earlier this month, the mood was warm. Investors around the table laid out a boosterish pitch for private…
The City will be plunged into darkness on Saturday as some of the capital’s most iconic landmarks turn off their lights to raise awareness for climate change. From 8:30pm, the…
Ukrainian investment group Roosh has launched a partnership with Canadian startup builder Tiny Studio in a bid to challenge the “private equity orthodoxy” across Europe. Roosh, which is based in…
Moving markets today: Asian markets follow Wall Street higher, gold hits record high, New Zealand in recession; All eyes on Bank of England policy decision Major stock indexes in the…
Reeves’ aspiration to deliver greater stability may sound appealing, but greater state involvement will not deliver the growth she promises, writes Matthew Lesh Rachel Reeves spoke of a country wrecked…
Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, it’s Dame Ottoline Leyser, CEO of UK Research and Innovation and newly appointed deputy gauger…
Chancellors preparing for Budgets fret over their fiscal headroom, but what matters in the long-term is the trend rate of growth. And if the OBR has it’s projections wrong, there…
The Lord Mayor of the City of London has welcomed a survey suggesting the capital isn’t out of the race to be the globe’s top financial centre just yet. The…
A new fund aiming to invest £660m in companies across the North of England has been launched by the British Business Bank. The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II will provide…