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...The Financial Reporting Council is set to leave its office in the City by the end of the year with new locations in the Docklands and Stratford near the Olympic Park under consideration, according to people...
...Last month Kemi Badenoch, business secretary and equalities minister, wrote to FCA chief executive Nikhil Rathi to accuse the agency of “regulatory over-reach” because of the introduction of a new regime...
...holding back the city after a decade of strong economic growth....
...Banks have since significantly tightened up scrutiny of clients, with approvals for setting up private banking accounts and new family offices in the city-state now stretching into months and in some cases...
...A contentious plan to demolish the former Museum of London to make way for new offices has been placed on hold by Michael Gove, even as the City of London backed the scheme....
...New York City and other parts of the northeastern US were shaken on Friday following an earthquake in northwestern New Jersey....
...“In retrospect, these pictures are already of a very different New York City,” he writes. “Only the dramatic weather has remained the same.”...
A tour of Paris in the season’s new looks
...Charles Marville’s photos of Paris show the historic city and the new landmarks of Haussmann’s metropolis, including the everyday landscape of street furniture and lampposts....
...This issue acts as a curtain-raiser for a year of celebrations. Welcome to Paris 2024. With the Olympics arriving in a few months, the city is in a mad rush to polish up before the torch arrives....
...The City of London is likely to be affected by alterations to non-dom rules....
...The city was proclaimed the new capital of the Ottoman Empire and over a thousand years of Byzantine rule came to an end. Those walls were constructed by Theodosius II to protect the “New Rome”....
...While all-ages concerts mostly took place outside the city limits, gigs by new bands moved to bars, meaning they couldn’t be attended by anyone under 21....
...Satellite data reviewed by the Financial Times showed at least two new clusters of tents — one in the north-eastern outskirts of Rafah, and another west of Khan Younis — had already been constructed since...
...For readers of Mona of the Manor, the 10th novel in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City sequence, which comes a decade after the last instalment, the meeting is, sad to report, a reminder of how some relationships...
...However, this is to underestimate the impact of the new transparency, governance and other behavioural constraints now imposed on governments by pension funds and other asset managers as a condition for...
...New residential construction project permits also fell sharply last year, according to the Partnership for New York City, down 55 per cent in the final quarter of 2023 from the same quarter of 2022....
...São Paulo faces the collapse of its electrical grid following years of under-investment, officials have warned, as widespread blackouts disrupt activity in the largest city in the Americas....
...Concerns over sexism in the City of London were highlighted last year when the Financial Times reported multiple allegations by women of sexual assault and harassment by hedge fund manager Crispin Odey....
...They fill every second of Occupied City, Steve McQueen’s new landmark documentary. The film is about the past and present. Each is given a sense to itself....
...This small chain, which began in 1981, has four locations in the City, on Old Broad Street, Cannon Street, Mark Lane and New Street Square....
...While some residents welcome new development, especially in areas such as the Inner West — “which is in desperate need of urban renewal”, says Orr — in the wealthy Eastern Suburbs, Nimbies are out in force...
...“This is creating a new dynamic in the city,” says Hong Kong collector Alan Lo, who predicts more mainland collectors and patrons will participate in the city’s institutional landscape over time....
...By December of last year, the city had spent $3.5bn on providing shelter and services for more than 164,500 arrivals — many of whom voluntarily travelled to New York in search of employment opportunities...
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