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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We’re all in the dark when it comes to her economic policies – but here are five conjectures

July 14, 2016

This is one of those articles I could live to regret. Speculating on the future economic policies of a Prime Minister in power for less than a day is either bold, reckless or both. We’re all in the dark, a bit like Ken Clarke, who said last week that he only knew in detail what [...]
Negotiations mustn’t be put off. We owe it to the British people to get things underway now

July 14, 2016

Standing outside the Commons, new Prime Minister Theresa May proclaimed that we are going to make a success of Brexit. One of her first tasks is to reassure the country that a plan for a post-Brexit Britain will be presented as soon as reasonably possible. While there is a tiny minority who remain unwilling to accept [...]
Indian nationals need a new visa: Britain is shooting itself in the foot with its backward system

July 13, 2016

The UK-India relationship is one of both traditional and contemporary strength. Current business secretary Sajid Javid has described the partnership as being at a “key juncture” and as providing “opportunities we would be foolish to ignore”. And with a UK-India trade agreement hailed a “deal made in heaven” by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), now [...]
History shows us why the next chancellor must tighten the belt

July 13, 2016

On the face of it, the Brexiteers have a bit of explaining to do. A week before the vote, Boris Johnson dismissed fears about the value of sterling, and accused the governor of the Bank of England of “talking the economy down”. Yet the economy does seem to have stalled, property funds have had to suspend [...]
This isn’t a break with the past – it’s a revival of past ideas that don’t work

July 12, 2016

We've just spent the last 43 years resisting the imposition of continental style corporate governance upon British companies. Now that we’re leaving the EU’s embrace, new Prime Minister Theresa May is advocating that we adopt them anyway. This is not, to be polite about it, a sensible move. Earlier this week, May vowed to put workers [...]
The Leap 100: Does Brexit really mean business?

July 12, 2016

Britain’s decision to leave the EU means taking a hit for The Leap 100. Sixty per cent say Brexit will impact their ability to grow in the short term. Long-term, that diminishes to 52 per cent, but the majority are still feeling the sense of uncertainty acutely. “We're waiting on further detail of what the [...]
YPlan’s co-founder Rytis Vitkauskas on pitching to Ashton Kutcher and how to secure other big-name investors

July 12, 2016

Rytis Vitkauskas doesn’t strike you as the sort of person to court celebrities. The Lithuanian born co-founder of YPlan, the events discovery app, comes across as smart, focused and unostentatious. Nevertheless, YPlan has been remarkably successful at getting celebrity backers like Stephen Fry, Pharell Williams and Ashton Kutcher, and Vitkauskas spoke about this at a recent [...]
Raising finance carefully is more vital than ever post-Brexit

July 12, 2016

There's no getting away from it: Brexit has been a shock to the system. Most entrepreneurs – particularly founders of fast-growing firms – wanted the result to go the other way, but they’re optimistic by nature, brushed themselves down and are getting on with business. There’s still plenty of waiting to come, though, with government and [...]
Adarsh Radia and new business partner Ignacio Macias are matchmaking startups and corporates

July 11, 2016

If you've already been a fund manager and serial entrepreneur, how do you seek a fresh perspective on work – and life? For Adarsh Radia, who’s ex-Merrill Lynch and co-founder of popular Indian restaurant Dishoom (you may have queued to get in), the answer was to enrol himself at the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think [...]
The loss of trust and fear that we’ll lose openness are challenges business must – and can – solve

July 8, 2016

The UK’s vote to leave the European Union demands strong leadership in a way few other events in our recent history have required. Since the result of the referendum, much of the language and rhetoric has verged on the sensationalist, provoking a sense of unease at a time when the country needs composure and reassurance. In [...]

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