By: Ali Lyon

Chief reporter Ali Lyon is the chief reporter at CityAM, responsible for covering the full gamut of business, finance and wealth news. He has been at CityAM full-time since July 2024. Get in touch with tips via email: [email protected]. Follow Ali on X: @alilyon_94

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Exclusive: Rachel Reeves to lead start-up delegation at Davos

January 16, 2026

Rachel Reeves will lead a delegation of entrepreneurs in charge of some of Britain’s fastest growing start-ups to the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, CityAM can reveal. The troupe of UK-based founders will join the Chancellor and business secretary Peter Kyle in the Swiss Alps as part of a concerted push by [...]
Bank of England’s Bailey: Central banks must challenge populism

January 16, 2026

Andrew Bailey has called on central banks international institutions to stand up to proponents of populism with their words and actions, warning that organisations like the Bank of England are being painted as “unresponsive and acting for the benefit of powerful” interests. In a speech to a group of economists and officials in London, governor [...]
That’s why mums go to adland: Retailers’ big media drive

January 15, 2026

With an abundance of information about their customers at their fingertips, some of the UK’s largest retailers are looking and behaving increasingly like media agencies, writes Ali Lyon Having a baby tends to be a highly personal journey. Conscious of the all-important three-month miscarriage cut-off, many wannabe parents will, quite understandably, think painstakingly about who [...]
Tories call Miliband’s latest offshore wind push ‘a vanity project’

January 14, 2026

Ed Miliband has reaffirmed the UK’s ambitious 2030 clean power goal with the biggest ever expansion of offshore wind farms that could add as much as £1.8bn a year onto households’ energy bills. The government unveiled an auction of offshore energy sites with a total capacity of 8.4 gigawatts, far outstripping analyst estimates and enough [...]
World Bank: Global economy ‘more resilient than expected’

January 14, 2026

The global economy has been “markedly more resilient than expected” against a hostile backdrop of geopolitical and trade uncertainty, according to the World Bank which has upgraded its growth forecast for 2026. In its biannual assessment of the international economic outlook, the world’s preeminent financial body said that the “limited” pass-through of tariffs onto prices [...]
Wellcome Trust bolsters cash pile as stock market jitters grow

January 13, 2026

Britain’s largest charity has built up a war chest of over £3.7bn in cash in a bid to safeguard its vast endowments from any impending financial correction and pounce on cut-price stock market opportunities a downturn might produce. The Wellcome Trust, a medical charity that manages nearly £40bn, revealed in its annual report that it [...]
Labour to unveil new Birmingham-Manchester rail link after HS2 fiasco

January 13, 2026

Ministers are poised to unveil plans to build a new railway line running from Birmingham to Manchester as part of a major overhaul of rail infrastructure in the North – but it won’t break ground for roughly a decade. Rachel Reeves will reveal the heavily delayed shake-up of east-west railway lines across the north of [...]
Central banks throw weight behind Fed after Trump assault

January 13, 2026

Some of the world’s most prominent central banks have issued a full-throated support of the Federal Reserve and its chair Jay Powell, after Donald Trump’s campaign against its independence escalated with a Department of Justice legal action. In an unusual joint intervention, 11 central banking chiefs declared they stood in “full solidarity” with the Fed’s [...]
Former Federal Reserve chiefs round on Trump’s ‘vindictive’ Powell salvo

January 12, 2026

Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to open a criminal indictment against Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell has been rounded on by all of his living predecessor, who accused the President of running the United States like a developing economy. In a highly unusual joint intervention, Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan rebuked the President’s most [...]
‘Extreme shareholder destruction’: Fitzwalter dials up assault on Auction Technology Group

January 12, 2026

Auction Technology Group management have been accused of overseeing a period of “extreme shareholder destruction” by its largest shareholder, in the latest salvo of a feud that has seen the auction platform provider rebuff 11 takeover approaches from the firm. In a blistering update to markets on Monday, Fitzwalter Capital said Auction Technology Group’s (ATG) [...]

Yas Queen’s: Why HSBC Championships expansion has been a smash for business

Yas Queen’s: Why HSBC Championships expansion has been a smash for business

Bowls Club is the City’s most eccentric (and brilliant) pop-up

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