City London Financial News
12.08 / 20:25
LinkedIn
Lawyer
Freshfields hires former Ropes & Gray, Goldman Sachs finance lawyer as partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired leveraged finance lawyer Carol Van der Vorst as a partner in its private equity team in London.
11.08 / 16:13
LinkedIn
Lawyer
Freshfields hires former Ropes & Gray, Goldman Sachs finance lawyer as partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired leveraged finance lawyer Carol Van der Vorst as a partner in its private equity team in London.
10.08 / 13:09
Google
Johnny Depp’s law firm Brown Rudnick has big plans in London
The live-streamed US libel trial of actor Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard dominated the internet for just over a month. But the fervent Google searches also threw his law firm, Brown Rudnick, into the blazing spotlight — and sudden online fame.
10.08 / 02:25
Digital
NOT
The UK’s first ever ‘anti-crypto’ conference is not just for haters — regulators want in too
The crypto industry’s recent implosion has shattered confidence in the sector – and caused serious headaches for those looking to promote digital assets to institutional investors.
08.08 / 12:15
Climate change
European Union
Racism
shock
Shock as London police admit strip-searching hundreds of children
Several hundred children were subjected to strip searches in London over the last two years, newly released figures reveal.
03.08 / 15:11
Lowe's
CEO
Strategy
Moodys
Credit Suisse hit with stock and credit downgrades after earnings plunge
Credit Suisse shares slipped on Wednesday after Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock to «sell» following credit rating downgrades from Moody's and S&P.
02.08 / 16:57
MET
HSBC
HSBC execs try to assuage Hong Kong shareholders
Top executives of HSBC met with the bank’s shareholders in Hong Kong on 2 August and sought to convince small investors that splitting off its Asian business wouldn’t benefit them.
02.08 / 16:25
business
Government
Bitcoin
Blockchain.com wins registration next to parent firm on the Cayman Islands
Blockchain.com, one of the oldest Bitcoin (BTC) infrastructure firms, is strengthening regulation and compliance efforts by securing registration in the Cayman Islands.
30.07 / 21:21
VISA
Energy
Ukraine war: The key developments you need to know for Saturday
1. Ukraine denounces POW execution calls
28.07 / 07:21
Art
NFT
Non-fungible tokens
Physical Art Narrowly Wins Over NFTs in Damien Hirst’s Experiment
With the deadline for UK art superstar Damien Hirst’s The Currency NFT burn expired today, artwork owners were forced to answer a paramount question: do they wish to burn their NFT in exchange for the artist’s corresponding original work on paper, or keep the token? As it turns out, slightly more owners opted to drop digital art and receive it in a physical form.
21.07 / 13:41
19.07 / 19:53
19.07 / 18:59
European Union
Heatwave
'Major incident' in London, as wildfires continue to rage across western Europe
London is facing a "major incident" caused by fires amid record-breaking temperatures, as wildfires continue to rage and claim lives across large parts of Europe.
19.07 / 09:27
CLIMATE CRISIS
Heatwave
Killing
'Climate change is killing people': Europe's extreme heatwave continues
A deadly heatwave that has demolished temperature records in continental Europe is spreading north and east on Tuesday.
19.07 / 08:01
NASDAQ
SoftBank
SoftBank reportedly pauses plan for Arm's London listing
SoftBank has stopped working on a London initial public offering for chip designer Arm because of political upheaval in the British government, the Financial Times reported.
19.07 / 05:35
cryptocurrency
Binance
crypto news
Indian
Crypto Update: Binance To Hire Indian Engineers And Breed Web 3.0 Startups
Crypto Update For The Week: Binance to Hire Indian engineers, UK, US frame rules
18.07 / 18:23
cryptocurrency
Adoption
NFT
Fashion
How Fashion and NFTs Found Themselves in a Beneficial Partnership
The fashion world has gone for NFTs in a big way. Yes, skeptics may continue to claim that NFTs are “useless,” yet fashion houses seem not to have received the memo, since a growing number of them have begun offering those tokens of ownership as part of their collections and product lines.
14.07 / 08:31
pandemic
Low
Brexit, working conditions and low pay: An inside look at Europe’s hotel staffing crisis
“It’s been a traumatic couple of years.” That’s how the CEO of a hotel loyalty programme sums up the COVID era. “But things are looking great now,” another Chief Executive Officer chimes in.
14.07 / 08:15
UPS
IPO
Platform
stake
Richard Branson takes a stake in Lightyear, a start-up hoping to become Europe's answer to Robinhood
Lightyear, a European challenger to trading platform Robinhood, has raised $25 million of funding in an investment round backed by British billionaire Richard Branson.
13.07 / 12:31
European Union
abortion rights
rights
'Demoralising and scary': Women in UK react to US reversal of abortion rights
From Olivia Rodrigo to Lily Allen, Kendrick Lamar to Billie Eilish, musicians and artists at Glastonbury, devastated and furious, condemned the US Supreme Court's controversial reversal of Roe v Wade – a 1973 court case that granted US women a constitutional right to abortion.
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