ALEX BRUMMER: Treasury, Bank of England and FCA should have acted earlier over Greensill – and David Cameron’s role in the affair stinks David Cameron’s interventions on behalf of Greensill, and the use of the former Prime Minister’s name to try and drum up business, is deeply unedifying Cameron is proving an exception to the … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Pascal Soriot must jet back from his lockdown bolthole to safeguard Astrazeneca’s reputation By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 8 April 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 8 April 2021 The pandemic has created a great divide between people who think they can work efficiently from the back bedroom and … Read more
Riding the digital wave: Deliveroo is down but not out and could well prove the naysayers wrong, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 7 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 7 April 2021 After the bloodbath when Deliveroo floated, the customers who bought into the issue have nothing … Read more
Joe Biden is riding a wave of optimism following the passage of his $1.9trillion (£1.4trillion) fiscal package. There may be more to come should the White House manage to steer proposals for a further £1.44trillion of climate change and infrastructure spending through a Congress jittery about debt levels. As the International Monetary Fund’s spring World … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Hypocritical big battalion investors dealt UK tech a devastating blow when they boycotted Deliveroo’s float By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 5 April 2021 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 5 April 2021 The Deliveroo debacle is being held up as a triumph for stakeholder capitalism. The herd-like decision of a … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Gift Britain has given world via Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine undermined by EU squabbling and medical-politics in US By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2021 When my wife and I sat down a year ago to our Passover supper, known as the … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Funds take the high road over Deliveroo… but they’re not worthy of a sainthood just yet By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 March 2021 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 25 March 2021 Aviva, rapidly followed by Aberdeen Standard, has run up the fashionable environmental, social and governance (ESG) flag … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: The EU vaccine war has spoiled Pascal Soriot’s triumph at Astrazeneca By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 24 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 24 March 2021 AstraZeneca is among the real corporate heroes of the pandemic. Its workforce strained every sinew to bring the Oxford-Jenner Covid vaccine to … Read more
After London Capital & Finance (LCF) and the implosion in the Woodford investment funds, it is smart for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to get its defences in first. The rise of easy-to-use online social media sites such as Reddit, no-fee trading platform Robin Hood and all sorts of other digital platforms and apps … Read more
One might have thought that after 17 major announcements since lockdown, Rishi Sunak has said everything there is to say about the economy. Not a bit of it. Today sees the launch of Tax Policy & Consultations Day, or TPAC as the accountants call it. The idea is to bring together in one co-ordinated package … Read more