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  • 1 day ago | theguardian.com | Nils Pratley

    Back in 2021, the arrival on the London stock market of Wise, a rapidly-expanding money transfer company, generated a feel-good factor at a useful moment. It came a month after over-hyped Deliveroo flopped on debut. And, since Wise was a pure fintech business, as opposed to a pizza delivery outfit with an app, there was reason to think the UK might be getting its act together in the sector that politicians swoon over. Shoreditch’s finest, and its Estonian founders, would show the way in UK fintech.

  • 3 days ago | msn.com | Nils Pratley

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  • 3 days ago | theguardian.com | Nils Pratley

    This time Thames Water really is drinking in the last chance saloonCall yourself barbarians at the gate? Actually, KKR hates the decades-old description, but the US private equity firm is still meant to have a fearsome reputation for doing its homework, being a cute judge of political risks and going where others fear to tread. All of which makes its eleventh-hour abandonment of its £4bn bid for Thames Water very odd.

  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | Nils Pratley

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  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Nils Pratley

    Shouldn’t a robust IT system be able to withstand the odd “human error”, such as somebody at a third-party supplier being hoodwinked by devious cybercriminals? Isn’t £300m at the expensive end for these events? And should it really take four-and-a-half weeks, and counting, for one of the UK’s biggest and well-resourced retailers to restore its website to working order?

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Nils Pratley
Nils Pratley @NilsPratley
25 Mar 25

RT @soniasodha: I wrote about this here. I won’t express a view on the specifics of the Sussex fine but pretty extraordinary for their VC t…

Nils Pratley
Nils Pratley @NilsPratley
31 Jan 25

The Treasury’s strategy on the Speke vaccine plant always looked a loser. From last year: https://t.co/7xiwLhVSw9

Nils Pratley
Nils Pratley @NilsPratley
10 Dec 24

Yet another excellent letter in response to the Scott Trust chair. https://t.co/WrLClYPy73