By: Harriet Green

I am CityAM's deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at CityAM, I ran a social enterprise.

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EU referendum: Why business owes it to its workers to take back the Brexit debate from the political elites

May 20, 2016

The most important influence on how Britain will vote on 23 June is unlikely to be President Obama, David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, or Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. The unsung persuader in this vote will be a friend or colleague at work. There are 5.4m businesses in the UK and a total of 31m employees. Each [...]
Fidgety millennials: How to stop the mid-management exodus

May 20, 2016

When you think of a “millennial” worker, do you think of a recent graduate, or somebody who you have worked with for years who is running their own team? The label covers anyone from 21 to 33 years old. While there has been considerable focus on how to attract graduate millennials into the workforce, there [...]
As the US slaps a 522 per cent tariff on Chinese steel imports, should the world fear a new trade war?

May 20, 2016

Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, says Yes. Things could be much worse than they presently are. In the century to 1950, world tariffs averaged 20 to 50 per cent. Now they average 1 to 3 per cent. But protectionism ain’t dead yet. We’ve seen it aplenty from populist presidential hopefuls Donald Trump [...]
P2P lending: Why the Lending Club fiasco won’t send us all back to the dark ages

May 19, 2016

You'd be forgiven for thinking, following last week’s news that Lending Club’s chief executive Renaud Laplanche was stepping down amid allegations around loan sales and misconduct, that this is the end of P2P lending as we know it. Commentators have been quick to discredit the P2P sector, with online lenders labelled “banks in disguise”, up [...]
Lending Club fiasco: This is the company helping P2P platforms grow up with integrity

May 19, 2016

The resignation of US giant Lending Club’s chief executive last Monday sent a icy wave of unease through the P2P lending industry. Writing in CityAM last week, AltFi’s Rupert Taylor commented: “the failures at Lending Club justified robust action because they related to a discipline that is central to what distinguishes P2P from conventional [...]
It’s a scorcher: How to deal with the sunny day skivers – and why you need a carrot and stick approach

May 18, 2016

We've all been tempted, haven’t we? You take a peek through the curtains and see it’s a glorious day and consider calling in sick. But here comes the black cloud: while it may be tempting to hit the out of office button and set up the deck chair in the garden, pause before you pick up [...]
How Brexit will hit investment portfolios: What (little) we know so far

May 18, 2016

The Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund both issued stark warnings last week about the EU referendum and the potential impact of Brexit. In a report, the IMF said that a Leave vote could have a “negative and substantial” long-run effect on UK output and incomes. Later, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde added [...]
Identity and security: The price we must pay to keep our information safe – and the companies helping us do it

May 17, 2016

In ancient Roman mythology, Janus, the god of boundaries, is usually depicted as having two faces. Skip a few thousand years to today’s modern world, and many of us still wear more than one mask: there’s the one we present at work, one we wear in front of family, and others we wear in front [...]
Forget millennials: This is the crucial reason why you should be focusing on retaining your silver capital – and how to do it

May 17, 2016

The workforce in Britain is ageing fast. More than 30 per cent of employees are over 50 years old, and nearly a quarter is over 60. This figure is set to rise to 30.7 per cent by 2020. This demographic shift creates significant challenges. In the next two decades, a large proportion of employees aged over [...]
Lystable’s Peter Johnston talks brutal camps, moving to San Francisco and building the IDs of the future

May 16, 2016

Imagine what it would feel like to make your housemate a millionaire within in a year. Your startup’s software enables companies to onboard, resource and pay their contract workers. It’s specific, but sticking to this underserved niche has allowed you to grow very fast. You have 4,500 contractors on your system and you recently had a [...]

Healey condemns Reeves: ‘Our adversaries do not follow timetables set by the Treasury’

Brits urged to back UK pubs during World Cup amid booking surge

Old Pulteney releases 50-year-old whisky for 200th anniversary

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