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Fri 21 May 2021 05.00 EDT While sipping a “Sonic Mook Experiment” in the freshly renovated Light Bar, I pondered how, over the years, many have wished a biblical plague to finish off Shoreditch. Well, no such luck. It’s alive and well, and I’ve had a banana-flavoured old fashioned and some monkfish yakitori to prove it. That said, I do understand why people feel so strongly about this area, which has been a magnet to the young and wilfully edgy for almost three decades now, ...

Derwent London reports dip in rental income after unprecedented year during pandemic Property firm Derwent London this morning reported a dip in net rental income for the year, as the vacancy rate for the London office market doubled during the pandemic. Gross rental income for the landlord hiked 5.8 per cent last year to £202.9m, up from £191.7m in the same period last year. However the impact of Covid-related costs and impairments saw net rental income for the firm, which ...

Smart money: Kristo Kaarmann could become a billionaire from a float At first glance, Kristo Kaarmann looks like a typical tech entrepreneur. He is sitting in his spare room in Hackney, wearing a sweater emblazoned with his companys new name: Wise.  The original brand – Transferwise – was ditched last month because Kaarmann, chief executive, has a broader vision for the ten-year-old money transfer service.  His plan is to roll out investment products to its ten million customers later thi...

John Ogier has stepped down from London restaurants Lyle's and Flor that he opened with chef James Lowe.

Apart from companies in the leisure and hospitality sector, along with the oil heavyweights, shares of commercial property companies were among the stock markets worst performers last year. Not all of them, of course: Segro, which develops, owns and manages warehouses across Europe, enjoyed a very solid year as demand for its space was supported by the rapid expansion of online shopping. But those exposed to the retail, hotel and office sectors had a rotten 2020. Image: Retailer...

Cross-Border Money Transfer Service TransferWise to Hire 750 New Staff Members in the Next 6 Months TransferWise is reportedly planning to recruit 750 additional workers in the coming months. These new hires would be equivalent to over a third of the online money transfer service’s existing team of professionals. This latest announcement has come after quite a successful period for the UK-headquartered Fintech company. TransferWise has confirmed that it has recorded a substantial 70% growth i...

Doing so much for sports for women not only on the field, level the playing field, but also women in the business of sports. when you look at executives in fortune 500 companies, 90% of ceos have played sports. >> thats power of team and tea building and what we are learning, you know, from that. and what image. what message are we sending to our girls and boys if we dont value women the same as men. >> its time we have to do it, especially when theyre winning games 13-0. tiffany, shellie, thank...