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  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    IPOs
    UK sets out plans to simplify listing rules to attract more start-ups

    Regulator proposes compacting the two-tiered ‘premium’ and ‘standard’ segments of the London Stock Exchange

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    City of London plans to reinvent Square Mile as ‘fun’ 24/7 district

    City’s policy chief looks to stage music and arts festivals in recognition of post-pandemic ‘new normal’

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Capital markets
    UK trading firm XTX consolidates market position with record profits

    Earnings generate multimillion pound payout for Russia-born owner Alexander Gerko

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    City regulation post-Brexit will need greater accountability

    It would be perverse to replace the supposed democratic deficit of the EU with another homegrown one

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    InterviewLondon fights for its future
    City of London’s top official calls for closer UK-EU co-operation

    Catherine McGuinness also urges the government to enable more overseas workers to come to the Square Mile

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Dead in the Water — fire, fraud and murder on the high seas

    A journalistic exposé of a maritime fraud raises compelling questions about the morality of London shipping finance

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Markets InsightWilliam Wright
    Time to start afresh on reviving UK markets

    The City of London needs to be reconnected with the wider economy and with society

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    LexSchroders PLC
    Schroders: blue blood calls an end to its inequitable equities Premium content

    City of London’s last big, independently-owned historic brand seeks to merge voting and non-voting shares

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Can crypto fill the gap left by Russian money in the UK?

    By connecting himself so personally to the concept, the chancellor is taking a big punt himself

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    LexCryptocurrencies
    Cryptocurrencies: UK should not be a light touch for DeFi heavy squad Premium content

    Treasury’s ambitions for the City do not alter the case for stringent regulation of the sector

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    The City’s nickel crisis is an embarrassing failure

    Regulators are set to review the London Metal Exchange’s suspension of nickel trading but should also ask questions of themselves

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    City of London grandee’s collection of barometers goes up for sale

    Sir Nicholas Goodison was a driving force behind Big Bang reforms but also pursued cultural interests

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    The City of London’s Russia ties need to be cut

    It is fanciful to suggest there is a sustainable middle ground. There is not

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    London
    The ‘London laundromat’: will Britain wean itself off Russian money?

    Boris Johnson has launched a crackdown on oligarchs and companies linked to Vladimir Putin, but critics question its effectiveness

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    David Allen Green
    England’s law, not its lawyers, is to blame for the oligarch gold rush

    It is substantive law and procedure which makes London attractive to Russian litigants, not the charms of its advocates

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    City InsiderBryce Elder
    War in Ukraine puts City PRs in a spin

    Plus, Seraphim’s celebrated space launch, and the mystery blue superyacht of Canary Wharf

  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    Cat Rutter Pooley
    Londongrad will stand so long as enforcement stays weak

    There is little point in new rules to tackle dirty money if the UK does not robustly enforce those it has

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    Russian business & finance
    Russia’s waning reliance on London markets reduces bite of UK sanctions

    Johnson threatens to shut out Russian companies looking to raise capital, but only three have listed since 2014

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    UK property
    London’s Scalpel office tower nears £820mn sale

    Overseas investors bet on future of modern offices as UK market rebounds

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Cat Rutter Pooley
    City bankers face rerun of crisis-era criticism over bonuses

    Bailey’s tin-eared comment on workers’ wage restraint makes timing of bumper payouts tricky

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Meat traders wield centuries-old law to frustrate new Museum of London

    Market workers refuse to be relocated 14 miles from city centre to make way for £337mn historical venue

  • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
    Financial services
    City of London firms order workers back to the office

    Goldman Sachs and HSBC are among those making the move as Covid restrictions are eased

  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    Lex
    City of London/Brexit: job market is buoyant but relocations impend

    Brexit’s final impact on the City will depend partly on Brussels’ determination to reduce dependence on the UK

  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    LexKazakhstan
    Kazakhstan: violent clampdown highlights City of London’s lucrative role Premium content

    Suppression of civil unrest renews disquiet over UK’s financial links with mineral-rich nation

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    The Big Read
    The EU vs the City of London: a slow puncture

    Brexit hurt the financial centre but lack of political will is holding back Europe’s efforts to reduce its dependence on the UK

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