By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'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 City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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Beware May’s “industrial strategy”: Brexit Britain must be market-orientated

July 18, 2016

It all seemed to be going so well. Our new Prime Minister had made some bold and imaginative appointments in assembling her first cabinet. This wasn’t a lazy half-hearted reshuffle, Theresa May was imposing her own stamp on government. Rather than going for continuity, she was ruthless in personnel changes. Initially, it started to look [...]
The grand edifice of President Erdogan’s regime is more fragile than ever

July 18, 2016

The short-term consequences of the weekend’s stunning failed coup attempt in Turkey seem clear enough. In typical Putin mini-me fashion, surviving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s position is strengthened, with him calling the coup “a gift from God”, allowing him to energetically purge the disloyal army of both Gulenist and Kemalist factions. In his defiant speech from [...]
Brexit: It’s early days, but UK business has been getting on with it

July 15, 2016

It is less than three weeks since the British people voted to leave the EU. In that time, much of the media response has been verging on hysterical. The political establishment, City and even bookmakers simply did not see Leave coming. Figures who were top of their game a month ago have fallen on their swords: [...]
From an optimistic Remainer: It’s not impossible to see how we can make a go of Brexit. Here are two ideas

July 15, 2016

As a staunch Remainer, I was hugely disappointed by the Brexit vote. But, what’s done can’t be changed. What is the best way to respond to it? It’s hugely tempting to accuse the Brexiteers of being racist or stupid. We share with glee how some admit that they were conned by Nigel Farage and would have voted [...]
The Bank was right to hold rates – even a cut in August would be a shot in the dark

July 15, 2016

Three weeks on from a dramatic referendum result, we have little hard information about how the economy is responding. There have been indications that business confidence and consumer confidence have been affected by the shock outcome. But there has also been a lot of political turbulence, and it is understandable that this has affected the consumer [...]
It’s a myth that VCs and crowdfunding platforms are at war. If you’re raising money, your focus should be on the following

July 14, 2016

As equity crowdfunding evolves, the view is that there’s a war underway between venture capitalists and platforms targeting retail investors – as both vye for the best deals. But in reality, the scene remains peaceful. As a VC firm, we view crowdfunding as a complementary finance channel that can find additional and strategic capital for appropriate [...]
OurCrowd’s Jon Medved gives his tips for crowdfunding investors

July 14, 2016

Israel deserves its moniker “startup nation”. There are 3,000 tech-related startups based in and around Tel Aviv alone, and over $6bn flows into the country each year through exits, according to the IVC Research Centre. And this makes it ripe for the picking for equity crowdfunding and VC firms looking for strong deal flow to [...]
How are the alternative finance industry and the $1.6 trillion wealth management market approaching each other?

July 14, 2016

If you use an independent financial adviser or wealth manager, they’ve probably never mentioned P2P lending. This might seem strange: there’s been a lot of talk of how the peer-to-peer industry is “moving mainstream”, and volumes reflect that. In 2015, the online alternative finance industry in the UK grew to £3.2bn – an 84 per [...]
How artificial intelligence, peer-to-peer technology and blockchain are changing the insurance industry forever

July 14, 2016

Just as fintech is transforming the banking world, “insurtech” has set its sights on the insurance industry. There are firms like Trov, which provides insurance on-demand and enables consumers to catalogue insured belongings. Buzzmove uses home removals data to create a new distribution model for insurance – people are more likely to renew or buy [...]
Telematics will make you safer and save you money – by disrupting the disrupters

July 14, 2016

Telematics – the technology for collecting and analysing driver behaviour – has been transforming the face of car insurance for a long time. Now it is set to play a key role in how people engage with market disrupters such as Uber and Zipcar. These new entrants give people a great deal of flexibility in how [...]

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