Buy-now pay-later firm Laybuy has put itself up for sale and is hunting for potential buyers following a turbulent few years on the public markets, City A.M. can reveal.

Full story here:

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🗣️“Parties should scrupulously avoid the perception that they’re offering privileged political access in return for cash.”

Following an @opendemocracy investigation Steve Goodrich spoke to the The Guardian about big money and access in politics.

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Pretty incredible stats in the Financial Times today on the failure of private equity companies running our water companies:

'The campaign for institutional investors to divest from oil giants like BP and Shell hasn’t made any progress due to the way index providers dominate the market, a new study has found.'

Interesting bit of analysis here from Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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Gordon Brown: ‘I really didn’t think we could go as far backwards as we’ve gone’

Really lovely interview by ⁦Henry Mance⁩ on.ft.com/3UhcllG

EXCL The govt will allow councils to use CCTV cameras made by Chinese state-owned firms — even though they’re banned across Westminster over security concerns.

Tory MP Neil O’Brien says UK needs to be “less naive” in wake of recent Chinese cyberattacks

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🗣️ “If they were deployed against people that weren’t as politically powerful, they could be more useful.”

@bencowdock spoke to City A.M. about Unexplained Wealth Orders and the challenge to sniff out illicit wealth and rid the city of dirty money.

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EXCLUSIVE: City A.M. can reveal the close friend of one of Home REIT's fund managers was making a 30 per cent cut from some of its property deals, raising major conflict of interest concerns.

Story w/ Ben Lucas

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Home REIT has been mired in scandal for over a year. For the first time, City A.M. can reveal the existence of a previously undisclosed businessman in the middle of a string of its property deals

🖊️: Charlie Conchie Ben Lucas

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EXCLUSIVE - A City A.M. investigation can reveal that a friend of one of Home REIT's former fund managers was profiting from the firms' property deals, raising major conflict of interest concerns.

Latest story with the superb Charlie Conchie
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Home REIT has been mired in scandal for over a year.

For the first time, City A.M. can reveal the existence of a previously undisclosed businessman in the middle of a string of its property deals

Exclusive from Charlie Conchie and Ben Lucas

 cityam.com/who-is-tom-daw…

The City A.M. Magazine returns!

The April edition features interviews with Keir Starmer, Micheal Ward and more + features on the beauty of pylons and the politics of the snack trolley.

Read here: cityam.com/the-magazine/

Amazing work from Steve Dinneen and Adam Bloodworth

The City A.M. Magazine returns! The April edition features interviews with Keir Starmer, Micheal Ward and more, and features on the beauty of pylons (yep, pylons) and the politics of the snack trolley. Read here: cityam.com/the-magazine/

nobody does it like him

Readers rejoice, Lucy Kenningham is finally back from jury service and back in City A.M.'s hallowed pages

A look into the UK's jury system, all the way back to the Vikings, and the impossible situation of having to be 'sure' if someone is guilty
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“Bringing a successful legal action against the well-connected, litigious, wealthy criminals and corrupt PEPs, where all previous attempts have failed, was always going to be a tall order,” one former NCA employee said.

My latest for City A.M.
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Make sure to give it a read!

The absolute best bit of editing City A.M. The Magazine is being able to ask my favourite journalists to write stuff for us… and they do! 🧵 cityam.com/the-magazine/

And tomorrow’s @cityam magazine - our first in print since before the pandemic, featuring exclusive interviews with Keir Starmer, Micheal Ward and many more

All the props to Steve Dinneen and Adam Bloodworth

#BREAKING A representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been deported from Hong Kong on arrival to the territory to monitor the landmark trial of publisher Jimmy Lai, the international press freedom concern group said in a statement.

rsf.org/s/94297