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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How are ‘bankrupt’ France’s borrowing costs still lower than ours?

September 29, 2025

Locked in a protracted political crisis over the extent of its indebtedness – and with its deficit running at over five per cent of GDP – France has earned itself the unwanted monikers of ‘the sick man of Europe’ and the ‘new Greece’. Despite these woes, its borrowing costs remain lower than the UK’s. Ali [...]
Jaguar Land Rover to restart some production ‘in coming days’

September 29, 2025

Jaguar Land Rover will restart some of its manufacturing operations in the coming days, the carmaker has said, over a month after it was forced to shut down its plant to deal with a brutal cyber attack that has left dozens of its suppliers on the brink of failure. In a statement released on Monday, [...]
Heseltine-founded media giant snaps up trio of marketing titles

September 25, 2025

A magazine group founded by Michael Hesteltine has snapped up a trio of marketing titles from Aim-listed Centaur Media, bolstering its portfolio of advertising and communications outlets. Haymarket, which owns over 70 specialist magazines including the likes of Autocar, Campaign and Management Today, revealed it had acquired Marketing Week, Creative Review and Festival of Marketing [...]
Gilt auction demand lowest in two years in sign of pre-Budget jitters

September 25, 2025

Gilt market jitters in the run-up to the Budget bled into demand at government bond auctions for the first time on Thursday, as sales of bonds saw interest from investors hit its lowest in at least two years. Auctions of five- and 30-year gilts issued by the Debt Management Office (DMO) this week attracted the [...]
High net worths rejig estates as inheritance tax overhaul looms

September 24, 2025

The high-net-worth clients of a leading wealth manager are rearranging their estate planning to get ahead of potential changes in the Budget, fearing the Chancellor will mount another inheritance tax grab to help plug the Treasury’s £30bn fiscal hole. Rathbones said that interest from its customers in inheritance-related advice has “risen sharply” since the start [...]
‘Furlough’ scheme calls grow after Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack

September 24, 2025

Calls for a furlough-style scheme to support workers affected by the crippling cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover grew on Wednesday, after the carmaker revealed its production would remain at a standstill for at least another week. Thousands of workers at firms in the Range Rover maker’s supply chain have spent weeks in limbo, with some [...]
Firms turn to security as threats to bosses rise

September 24, 2025

British businesses are bolstering security measures for their chief executives faster than any other country in Europe, in the face of rising threats to bosses’ personal and cyber security. According to a fresh report examining rising threats to executives across the world, over a third of the UK’s chief security officers (CSOs) believe bosses in [...]
The Pimco boss who thinks philanthropy has a PR problem

September 24, 2025

John Studzinski may be one of the City’s most senior bankers, but he is arguably best known for his exploits beyond the Square Mile and Wall Street; namely in the space of philanthropy. Ali Lyon talks to him about his aims to reshape the way people think about ‘giving’, and why he doesn’t like the [...]
Bank of England’s Pill: We should not have slowed QT bond sales

September 23, 2025

The Bank of England’s chief economist has hit out at colleagues’ recent decision to slow sales of the central bank’s government debt stockpile, warning it risked papering over underlying drivers of spiking government borrowing costs and causing a “more painful” crisis in the future. In a speech delivered in Geneva, Huw Pill told delegates that [...]
French bosses round on ‘deadly’ wealth tax plans

September 23, 2025

Some of France’s most high-profile entrepreneurs have rounded on a wealth tax proposal being touted by a party key to the flailing government’s fortune, warning it would risk “destroying the French economy” and sparking an exodus of the country’s wealthiest residents. Bernard Arnault, the billionaire chief executive of luxury behemoth LVMH and France’s richest man, [...]

Platitudes in women’s sport are empty, patronising and offensive

Platitudes in women’s sport are empty, patronising and offensive

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