Helen Thomas

Wednesday, 22 March, 2023

Monday, 20 March, 2023

Banks

How ‘competitive’ would you like your bank regulation now?

Unravelling of Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank gives whip hand to those in favour of tough oversight

Wednesday, 15 March, 2023

UK Budget

Endless innovating when it comes to R&D policy can only be unhelpful

With the latest credit for research intensive businesses, the government is picking winners by the back door

Wednesday, 15 March, 2023

UK banks

Why crummy bank IT is a looming regulatory risk

Lenders will not get a pass on the digital challenges around new consumer protection rules

Monday, 13 March, 2023

Tech start-ups

Let’s hope the start-up world remembers this Great British Tech Rescue

The UK tech sector has been backed up and bailed out by a country it sometimes appears impatient to escape

Thursday, 9 March, 2023

WANdisco PLC

No dancing around it: WANdisco kicks London when it’s down

Aim-listed software group has followed plans to add a US listing with revelations of ‘potentially fraudulent irregularities’

Wednesday, 8 March, 2023

Competition & Markets Authority

Is the UK really becoming ‘Death Valley’ for global tech?

Microsoft’s $75bn Activision Blizzard deal needs to clear hurdles around the world

Tuesday, 7 March, 2023

Financial & markets regulation

Don’t just blame the regulator for London’s failed American dreams

Tweaking the rules for each big listing that comes along would be pathetic

Friday, 3 March, 2023

London fights for its future

This Brexit breakthrough doesn’t move the dial for the City

Only reforms will stop the decline of London’s equity market

Wednesday, 1 March, 2023

Corporate governance

Why Europe is the next battleground for investor control

ISS has moved against companies with unequal voting rights, opening a new front in the conflict over shareholder powers

Friday, 24 February, 2023

Private equity

Return of private equity suggests revival of London’s salad days

Being picked over by investors looking for a bargain feels like progress in this market

Tuesday, 21 February, 2023

Corporate governance

Linda Evangelista moment: how the £100mn pay club went wrong

Biggest CEO incentive packages don’t always lead to the best performance

Thursday, 9 February, 2023

Oil & Gas industry

BP’s shift leaves a bigger question on credibility than climate

Retreat on commitments is also a pivot born out of higher oil price forecasts

Wednesday, 8 February, 2023

UK banks

UK banks have rarely had it so good (and it won’t last)

From July, there will be more scrutiny of how actively they shepherd customers towards better interest rates

Tuesday, 7 February, 2023

Financial services

Is there a pot of pension money to rehabilitate UK plc?

Even if there is, suitable infrastructure projects to invest in are lacking

Thursday, 2 February, 2023

Energy sector

Shell is having a use-of-cash flow crisis

How the energy group and others should spend their spoils is a tricky question

Thursday, 2 February, 2023

Digital currencies

The UK finds its way to a tougher line on crypto

The recent rout has done us a favour: the worst of the political salivating over the industry has dried up

Wednesday, 1 February, 2023

Cyber Security

The corporate world is losing its grip on cyber risk

Reasonably priced cyber insurance that also improves resilience seems still beyond our reach

Friday, 27 January, 2023

Financial services

The UK led the world in open banking — and then got left behind

A genuine tale of innovative success risks stagnating as global imitators push adoption harder

Wednesday, 25 January, 2023

White collar crime

Are we really making headway in holding corporate villains to account?

A proliferation of offences that aren’t prosecuted seems unhelpful for everyone

Tuesday, 24 January, 2023

Corporate governance

It is time for a boardroom entente at UK plc

Tension between FTSE boards and their investors seems more symptom than cause of the London market’s woes

Friday, 20 January, 2023

Legal services

Watch law firms, not banks, to judge the City’s deep freeze

For now, the strategy is to wait and see. But recent poaching and bidding up of salaries will not help

Wednesday, 18 January, 2023

Technology regulation

Where the UK’s ‘world-leading’ online rules lost their way

What is left looks like a regulatory hodgepodge, something that parliament could yet address

Tuesday, 17 January, 2023

Retail sector

Is this the high street’s last stand?

Bricks and mortar retail has shown signs of a revival but hailing the triumph of square footage over pixels would be wishful thinking

Friday, 13 January, 2023

Pensions crisis

Can we talk more about my pension this year?

Comfortable world of defined benefit schemes has dominated UK news — what about the rest of us?

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