The Hospitality & Leisure (“H&L”) industry faces an uncertain year ahead. The New Year brings with it a double-edged sword: a global recessionary environment where high-interest and inflation rates threaten consumer spending & H&L revenues, coupled...
Karl Marx anticipated the Boom Bust cycle in the 19th Century… it could be said that in 2023 the Budget of His Majesty’s Government has missed the opportunity to benefit from the experience of those that have gone before us and survived the cycle. The rhetoric...
Over the last few weeks, we have seen a number of major acquisitions. None larger than the historic ‘shotgun-acquisition’ of Credit Suisse. UBS will pay 3 billion Swiss francs (£2.644 billion) for 167-year-old Credit Suisse Group AG and assume up to $5.4 billion in...
This last decade has been a playground for the global technology ecosystem to flourish and enable positive disruption across every industry. The backbone and a key enabler of this has been Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), with whom many of the world’s largest VC investors...
In the wake of Shell and BP announcing record-breaking profits for 2022 driven by the increase in wholesale gas prices following the war in Ukraine, their sustainability targets have been placed firmly in the back seat. BP announced that its profits had doubled to...
