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“The research was conducted by Opinium Research from 25 March and 10 April 2026”
“Insignis has partnered with over 50 banking institutions”
“Insignis has helped over 15,000 advisers and businesses distribute more than £32bn in cash assets”
“Founded in 2017 and authorised and regulated by the FCA since 2018”
“Missed interest estimates are indicative, based on the gap between the average rate earned by UK businesses on cash in savings and current accounts (1.61%, Bank of England data, reported by Lightyear, June 2025) and a conservative comparat…”
“fewer than half of businesses using multiple banks actively spread cash”
“the £6m Marble Arch Mound”
“quietly spent a further £660,000 tearing it down”
“reported a pre-tax profit of £2.6m during the year, compared to a £1.8m loss for the previous year.”
“Total sales during the year saw a 14.9 per cent boost to £1.3bn”
“This included a credit crunch-defying 1.4 per cent rise in like-for-like sales in the key UK and Ireland markets.”
“Clifford Chance, formerly the world’s largest firm by revenue, posted a profit per equity partner (PEP) drop of 37 per cent to £733,000 a little under a year later.”
“Ashurst’s PEP dropped by 35 per cent to £673,000”
“Norton Rose’s fell 17 per cent to £517,000”
“equity partners at Allen & Overy will have £122,000 less in their pocket this year, making do with £1m each.”
“falls in PEP of up to a third”
“Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, which last year reported a PEP of $2.48m (£1.47m).”
“peaked two weeks ago on 8 May”
“the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.1 per cent, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 0.5 per cent and the Nasdaq advanced 0.7 per cent”
“The S&P 500 has risen 31 per cent since hitting a 12-year closing low on 9 March”
“which is forecast to shrink at an annual rate of 5.5 per cent”
“US existing home sales are estimated to have risen in April to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 4.66m units, up from 4.57m in March”
“New home sales are projected to have inched up to an annual pace of 360,000 units in April from 356,000 in March”
“484 companies in the S&P 500 had reported through Friday”
“The Office for Budget Responsibility said the policy cost three times more than initially estimated since its introduction by George Osborne, claiming it was “unsustainable” for public sector debt.”
“The state pension will rise above £12,570 from next year.”
“The PMI survey hit a 13-month high in June, rising to 47.0 from 45.4 in May”
“The PMI data showed that manufacturing production rose for the first time since March 2008, with an index reading of 52.1 in June”
“Historically, a balance of about 54 has actually been needed to point to rising output”
“the new orders balance edging up only a touch from 48.3 to 48.9”
“Alan Clarke, economist at BNP Paribas, said the easing pace of contraction reinforced the likelihood of a positive GDP reading in the second quarter”
“official data, also released yesterday, showed output in the service sector falling in April”
“there was positive news for the Eurozone, which saw its manufacturing PMI reach a nine-month high of 42.6 in June”
“new orders fell at a slower pace than the preliminary estimate had suggested, showing the smallest decline for a year”
“HSBC has sealed a a tech tie-up with Google where it aims to use AI to scout priority projects that could bank the firm $100m in “efficiency gains”.”
“HSBC claims will make or save at least $100m.”
“Bill Winters, the chief executive of Standard Chartered, laid out plans to slash some 8,000 roles last month”
“Earlier this year, reports from Bloomberg suggests HSBC was weighing up to 20,000 job cuts as part of a longer-term push towards automation and AI.”
“AI “will reduce jobs down the road””
“Japanese firm Mizuho announced plans to axe up to 5,000 jobs over a decade as it pumps ¥100bn (£466m) into its AI action plan.”
“Citigroup has axed fifth of staff from its wealth business since 2023 as part of a sweeping overhaul of the division following the introduction of an AI-powered wealth management assistant”
“OIL climbed above $72 a barrel yesterday, an eight-month high”
“Crude oil for delivery in July rose $1.05 to $72.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.”
“In London Brent crude gained $1.00 to $71.80.”
“Oil prices have risen 62 per cent this year.”
“ArcelorMittal has started talks with its banks about making conditions for re-paying its $26bn (£16.2bn) of debt less onerous”
“Germany’s largest container shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd, has been forced to ask its shareholders for €1.75bn in fresh capital and could yet seek state aid”
“Those shareholders that have expressed an opinion on pricing have told The Times that they want a premium of between 30 per cent and 50 per cent to complete the deal”
“Aviva shares were under renewed pressure last night after it emerged that 12 leading insurance analysts had forecast that it would cut its dividend next month by between 25 and 50 per cent”
“A review of thousands of foreclosures in the Atlanta area shows that trusts managing pools of securitized mortgages sold six times as many homes as banks during the six months ended 31 March”
“Economists believe that the UK economy declined by 0.1 per cent in April. Official figures will be published on Friday.”
“Raja said that official figures last month showing a fall in retail sales by 0.4 per cent would weigh on growth”
“Capital Economics analysts said that growth of 0.6 per cent in the first quarter of the year would unwind”
“Baillie Gifford has launched the UK’s first ever fully tokenised investment fund, in a move that will grant savers the opportunity to invest in short-dated bonds via blockchain-based tokens. The Scottish investment house unveiled its Enhan…”
“Baillie Gifford’s new fund comes amid a groundswell of interest in so-called tokenisation, whereby financial assets are represented on the blockchain... Several asset managers have launched tokenised funds that wrap existing vehicles into …”
“The framework, initially laid out by the Financial Conduct Authority last autumn...”
“Baillie Gifford said its dollar-denominated fund would use two public blockains – Ethereum and Solana – and offer a yield of approximately seven per cent to investors from the UK, Switzerland and Cayman Islands.”
“Last year, the FCA lifted its ban on crypto tracker funds as part of its bid to meet the government’s demands for watchdogs to ‘regulate for growth’.”
“...while the Bank of England on Monday watered down its plans to regulate so-called stablecoins.”
“The sale follows Wayve’s $1.2bn Series D funding round earlier this year, which valued the company at $8.6bn...”
“‘This is ideal news for the fledgling private market’, IG chief market analyst Chris Beauchamp told City PM. ‘The fact that an AI company feels confident enough to test the waters in such a way is a big boost, particularly in a week when f…”
“PitchBook senior analyst Navina Rajan told City PM that secondary share sales were rapidly becoming 'a core feature of the late-stage venture market rather than an exception', as companies look to retain top talent without sacrificing inde…”
“full-year pre-tax profit had slid 39 per cent”
“For the year ending 31 March, the company’s pre-tax profit fell to £15.4m from £25.2m”
“revenue rose 5.7 per cent to £351.3m”
“Hogg Robinson said it had reduced its year-end net debt by £25m to £85m”
“Hogg Robinson’s total dividend for the year was 1.2p per share, compared with last year’s total dividend of 4p per share”
“Hogg Robinson shares closed 1 per cent lower at 23p”
“dividend payouts will fall by 30 per cent next year”
“19 per cent fall in payouts since last Summer’s peak”
“an estimated half of blue chip dividends are declared in pounds”
“somewhere between 50 to 90 per cent”
“£1.1bn package”
“The fund will receive up to £150m from the British Business Bank – the largest single fund commitment in the institution’s history – and will focus on scaling UK AI hardware companies”
“Fractile, the Oxford-based AI chip startup that recently secured $220m in funding”
“London recently reclaimed its position as Europe’s leading technology hub after startups in the capital raised $17.7bn last year”
“while UK AI firms secured £8.3bn in funding during 2025”
“Marston’s has fared the worst, having spent most of the decade in negative territory”
“Mitchells & Butlers held up initially before taking a significant dip in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic”
“FTSE 250-listed JD Wetherspoon, whose boss Tim Martin was an outspoken advocate and donor of the Brexit campaign, is the only London-listed pub firm whose share price jumped following the vote”
“unfortunately, is in a worse economic position than it was a decade ago”
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“Regus reported a 16 per cent increase in revenues for the first four months of the year yesterday”
“revenues rose to £387m compared to £334.5m in the same period last year”
“The group’s net cash balance increased to £227.6m at the end of April as a one-off receipt of £18.5m helped offset the impact of a strengthening British pound”
“fell over 10 per cent to a close of 75p”
“2009 promises to be a tough year for the group with profits likely to suffer as unemployment rises”
“the shares fell on the update”
“Given that the company is highly operationally geared, ongoing price declines will impact its profitability significantly”
“he is likely to cut his above-consensus 2009 and 2010 earnings estimates by 15 to 20 per cent respectively”
“gaining more than 50 per cent since mid March”
“Buy-outs of company pension scheme liabilities fell sharply in the first quarter of 2009”
“NOL, which has S$400m ($278m) in cash reserves, said it would use the proceeds of the S$1.4bn issue to pay off nearly all of its debt.”
“at least five mutuals will fail within 12 months and 15 will be forced to merge”
“James Pallotta, who runs the $800 million Raptor fund”
“George Noble, a former mutual-fund manager who controls some $550 million across two funds named Gyrfalcon”
