Jamie Young is Senior Reporter at Business Matters, covering SME finance, employment law and Westminster policy since 2016. He has reported on every Budget and Autumn Statement since 2018, helped make sense of the 'covid era' and the bounce-back loan scheme from launch through the fraud investigations, and broke the magazine's coverage of the 2024 late-payment reforms. He joined Business Matters straight from completing his BA in Administration from Exeter University and is NCTJ-qualified. Reach him at jyoung@cbmeg.co.uk
We sit down with James Doyle, Managing Director of Endeavour Group, a building safety consultancy and training provider supporting duty holders responsible for some of the…
Octopus Energy Generation will deploy nearly $1bn into Californian carbon removal, heat battery and solar-plus-storage projects as part of a wider $2bn US expansion plan.
Profit margins at the world’s top luxury groups have fallen from 24% to 13%, with experts urging cost cuts in indirect spending to protect brand value.
SatVu has secured £30m including backing from the NATO Innovation Fund to expand its space-based thermal imaging constellation for defence and sovereign intelligence use.
The British Business Bank has pledged up to £45m to Redrice Ventures’ £75m Fund II, supporting seed-stage UK consumer brands and creative industry startups.
Eight in ten recruiters say graduates are missing job offers due to weak work ethic and soft skills, with many employers extending probation periods, research finds.
UK unemployment rose to 5.2% and wage growth slowed to 4.2%, increasing pressure on the Bank of England to cut interest rates next month.
Topshop is returning to bricks-and-mortar retail in 32 John Lewis stores, marking its biggest high street comeback since Arcadia’s collapse in 2020.
In an interview with The Times, IWG founder Mark Dixon defends hybrid working, criticises calls to ban WFH and reflects on Regus, WeWork and a possible…
Schroders has agreed a £9.9bn takeover by US asset manager Nuveen, ending more than 200 years of independence in a blow to the London Stock Exchange.
Ford has been overtaken in global sales by China’s BYD, highlighting the rapid rise of electric carmakers as Western manufacturers struggle with the EV transition.
Fintech startup Tangible has secured $4.3m in seed funding led by Pale Blue Dot to help hardtech companies access structured debt finance and reduce reliance on…
Energy secretary Ed Miliband has approved dozens of new solar and onshore wind projects across the UK, sparking a backlash over farmland loss and rising consumer…
Starling Bank founder Anne Boden has reduced her shareholding in the digital lender following a secondary share sale that valued the fintech at up to £4bn.
The UK government has awarded 6.2GW of new onshore wind and solar projects in CfD Allocation Round 7, taking total CfD-backed capacity to more than 50GW.