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London investment will come roaring back after drop-off, says British Business Bank
London firms will be forced to weather a sharp drop-off in investment in the coming months before it rebounds in full force, a top official at the British Business Bank has warned.
Matt Adey, senior economist at the state-backed economic development bank, said choppy markets in the UK meant that investment into London’s growing firms would slow in the period ahead, but predicted the Capital would come roaring back eventually.
“I would expect to see significantly less deals and there are significantly less deals going on in quarter three by the looks of it,” Adey said.
“But that doesn’t that doesn’t strike me as a long term problem. It’s just part of the volatility of these these markets.
“Fundamentally, London is a strong market with lots of innovative businesses looking for finance, and lots of people looking to finance them.”
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Charities seek to distance themselves from Michelle Mone after PPE claims
Charities linked to Baroness Mone and her husband are distancing themselves from the couple after they were accused of secretly receiving £29 million by lobbying for a PPE company.
ActionAid has said it will no longer accept any donations from the Barrowman Foundation which was founded by Mone’s husband, the financier Doug Barrowman, and lists her as a trustee. ActionAid is an international agency that aims to tackle poverty and injustice around the world.
The Prince’s Trust and the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity also said they had no plans to receive any future support from Barrowman or Mone. Other charities have said the affiliations on the couple’s websites are out of date.
The Charity Commission had already opened a compliance case into the Barrowman Foundation over alleged unsecured loans before the latest accusations.
The foundation lists ActionAid as a partner on their website. However, the charity said: “The last donation … Read more
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