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Who are the richest hedge fund managers in the UK?

BlueCrest boss Michael Platt is the UK’s wealthiest hedge fund manager with a fortune of £12bn

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Anglo American shares surge on possible BHP offer

Mining giant could become the latest major company to leave London

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There are an estimated 40 million digital nomads worldwide

Dutch fintech Bunq targeting ‘digital nomads’ in London expansion drive

Bunq left the UK after Brexit, but now it is back with a focus on London’s digital nomads

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US law firms have invested heavily in the City in recent years

US law firm Perkins Coie eyes London launch

Perkins Coie is an adviser to top US tech firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta

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Legal giant to land a new London home at 20 Air Street in the West End, close to key private equity firms

Paul Weiss set to move into Twitter’s UK headquarters in Soho

Paul Weiss is set to move to new London headquarters following Kirkland & Ellis hiring spree

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Hedge fund tries to cash in on lame IPO market

Marshall Wace shorts London’s latest big IPO

On 6 July, CAB Payments made a debut on the London Stock Exchange with an initial market cap of £851m. It's already being shorted

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Sigrid McCawley recently represented Virginia Giuffre in her lawsuit accusing Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, which was settled out of court in January

US law firm Boies Schiller plots London hires to meet ‘booming’ demand for litigation work

Managing partner Sigrid McCawley says the firm's City of London base is a key part of its plans

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Venture capital and other investment into the fintech sector in the UK plummeted to $9.6bn in the first half of 2022, a massive plunge from $27.8bn in the same period last year

The Fintech Files: VC funding craters in London, and ‘The Merge’ beckons

Not only did the total money invested fall – so too did the number of investments. Also, JPMorgan buys another fintech firm

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Summer in the City: How London coped with the heatwave

Financial News shares the best snaps from an unprecedented hot spell for the City

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Daniel Craig attended the premiere of ‘No Time to Die’ outfitted in a Savile Row tailor’s fabric

Savile Row cuts a new figure after Covid 

The famous Mayfair street has been transformed by the pandemic

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The Silicon Roundabout was lauded as London's great tech hub. Does it still have that power?

London’s Silicon Roundabout is over — say hello to the Tech Belt

“They used to all crowd together. Now, a number of companies are pulling in different directions, saying ‘I’m big enough, I’ve got 3,000 people, I don’t need to go there because people will come to us’.”

City working will look different, but is London ready for a return?

London, Paris and Frankfurt: Five charts tracking the return to work

Although London continues to lag behind European counterparts on a return to the office, the reasons for home working are the same in Paris and Frankfurt

The gates to Bank station remained shuttered for much of the pandemic

Benefits of £700m Bank station refit slashed after Covid outbreak

As costs increase and the pandemic reduces commuting, TfL has lowered the projected benefits

Leaflets for Luisa Porritt, Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate

London mayoral election: What are the candidates’ plans for the City?

Here's what the main candidates have said about the City during their campaigns

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Mayor Sadiq Khan’s chances of securing an outright win in the 6 May election is at more than 98%

Odds favour Khan for London mayor win — but bettors put ex-Wall Street broker Rose next

Sadiq Khan is out in front, but controversial candidate Brian Rose is popular with bettors

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The new Barclays Glasgow Campus under construction at Buchanan Wharf

City firms settle outside London in hunt for local talent

Glasgow, Birmingham and Leeds are turning into regional financial hubs

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SAGE member and epidemiologist Professor John Edmunds said it was possible that local restrictions could be put back in place if surge testing does not prove effective in containing the variant

London could face local stay-at-home orders as South African variant spreads

Rules are not needed right now due to the vaccine rollout and low case numbers

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