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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The man on a mission to save the internet

October 28, 2025

Search engines and publishers used to operate on a simple deal: publishers would let the likes of Google trawl their site, and in return Google would give them traffic. With the advent of AI, that deal is all but dead, leaving the internet’s old model under existential threat. Ali Lyon meets Matthew Prince, the man [...]
Mining boss: Journey from Aim to main market ‘too difficult’

October 28, 2025

The mining boss behind the London main market’s newest member has said his firm would not have transferred from Aim had he known how complicated the process would be, despite the junior market partly existing to act as a stepping stone to London’s principal exchange. Cobus Loots, the chief executive of South African-based gold miner [...]
Black interns fill Emirates to mark charity milestone

October 24, 2025

Thousands of black professionals packed out the Emirates Stadium on Thursday to celebrate the 10,000 Interns Foundation achieving its mission just five years on from being established in 2020. The non-profit organisation, which works with major employers to improve opportunities for underrepresented talent Britain, managed to fill the Arsenal ground with 10,000 current interns, alumni [...]
Another US lender tumbles as credit jitters accelerate

October 24, 2025

Another mid-sized lender filed for bankruptcy in the US, highlighting the growing strain in American credit markets which Andrew Bailey has likened to the subprime crisis that foreshadowed the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Primalend, a Texan provider of subprime financing to car dealerships, said in a filing on Wednesday that it had collapsed after months [...]
FCA boss sounds alarm financial system resilience

October 22, 2025

The boss of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has sounded the alarm on Britain’s resilience against escalating geopolitical tensions, warning the country’s financial system is not sufficiently prepared the confluence of escalating security threats it faces. In a speech calling for finance to be put at the heart of the UK’s defence strategy, Nikhil Rathi [...]
Third runway shortlist revealed as ministers push for fast take-off

October 22, 2025

The transport secretary has shortlisted two potential operators to oversee the development of Heathrow’s third runway as part of an overhaul of the planning process that she hopes will speed up the megaproject’s delivery. Heidi Alexander told MPs on Wednesday that bids from incumbent operator Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) and the ‘Heathrow West’ proposal from [...]
Lord Mayor calls for ‘attitude shift’ in City

October 22, 2025

The UK’s world-leading financial services sector must adopt a more positive attitude that puts innovation and entrepreneurial spirit at its heart, the Lord Mayor will say in a speech in which he is also expected to urge City regulators to redouble their efforts to slash red tape. In what will be some of his last [...]
Investment minister Jason Stockwood: I don’t want to be political

October 22, 2025

Jason Stockwood insists he hadn’t been angling for a plumb ministerial job before the call from Keir Starmer asking for him to be investment minister came six weeks ago. The serial entrepreneur – and Grimsby Town Football Club co-owner – had, instead, been “moaning” about the paucity of politicians with genuine business experience, when the [...]
Darktrace boss blames employee share rules for London exit

October 22, 2025

The boss of Darktrace has said that the London Stock Exchange’s restrictive rules over offering options and equity to staff drove its decision to leave the UK bourse in 2023, saying it limited its ability to attract and retain talent. Jill Popelka told a Bloomberg event that the “limitations” meant that as a London-listed company [...]
Reeves ‘flying blind’ on non-doms as ultra-rich couple move to Milan

October 21, 2025

Rachel Reeves will go into next month’s budget “flying blind” over the number of non-doms that have left the UK, a new report has warned on the day that a high-profile couple relocated to Milan in response to the Chancellor’s crackdown last autumn. The study, which was compiled by former Treasury economist Chris Walker, found [...]

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