Women in UK Financial Services Earn One-Third Less Than Male Colleagues: Data Show April 8, 2024 By Sinead Cruise and Carolyn Cohn Some of Britain’s top financial firms pay women 28.8% less on average than male counterparts, salary data from 21 companies...
UK Stands to Lose 8 Million Jobs From AI, Analysis Warns March 27, 2024 By Irina Anghel As many as 8 million UK workers are at risk of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence with current government...
UK Plc Attracts Wave of Takeover Offers From Foreign Suitors March 1, 2024 By Alexandra Muller and Dinesh Nair The UK has become a hotbed for mergers and acquisitions this year as dealmakers hunt for bargains in the country’s...
Southern Water Fined for Sewage Spill That Killed 2,000 Fish in England February 28, 2024 By Jessica Shankleman Southern Water was fined £330,000 on Tuesday after admitting a raw sewage spill that killed thousands of fish on the...
UK Has More ‘Fragile Firms’ Than EU Peers: Allianz Report February 28, 2024 By Lucy White The UK has the highest proportion of “fragile firms” out of all major European economies, another sign of the headwinds...
Banks, Insurers Ordered to Report Sexism and Bullying Cases in Britain February 15, 2024 By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn Britain’s markets watchdog has ordered more than 1,000 banks, insurers and brokerages to report how many sexual harassment, discrimination and...
Brexit Red Tape Puts Valentine’s Day Thorn in UK Flower Trade February 14, 2024 By Phil Noble Giraffe Flowers in Manchester, northern England, is preparing for the annual Valentine’s Day rush but florists fear that Brexit trade...
Some Insurers Suspend Sales of Car Policies After UK Watchdog Again Intervenes February 9, 2024 By Huw Jones Britain’s financial watchdog said on Friday several insurers have agreed to suspend sales of policies that cover the depreciation of...
Britain’s Financial Regulators Need ‘Ambitious Mindset’, Carnegie-Brown Says February 9, 2024 By Huw Jones British regulators need an “ambitious growth mindset” to implement post-Brexit financial sector reforms faster and stop business going elsewhere, an...
What Would UK Labour Party’s Finance Sector Plan Mean for City of London? February 1, 2024 By Huw Jones Britain’s opposition Labour Party, tipped in the polls to win an election expected this year, set out its blueprint on...