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Pensions, regulatory reform, and private markets tee up next era of UK fintech - The Currency

3 days ago | thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley

London has long demonstrated its dominance of the fintech sector. The City has been the birthplace of start-ups like Revolut, Wise, Monzo, and Checkout, all of which have transformed different aspects of the finance industry while attaining multi-billion-pound valuations in the process.
Monzo settles into Dame Street’s Central Plaza as it ploughs millions into European expansion - The Currency

4 days ago | thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley

British fintech bank Monzo has made One Central Plaza on Dame Street the new home for its European headquarters as it continues to invest millions of euros into the expansion of its Irish operation. The London-based business, last valued at £4.5 billion (€5.3 billion) in a secondary share sale in October, is in the process of building out an Irish arm in order to operate within the European Union. The bloc will be its second international market in addition to the US.
“He wasn’t a Lord to be looked up to, he was the king of the paedophiles” - The Currency

6 days ago | thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning

When Chris Moore launched his new book, he told the guests who had gathered there that it might have taken some of them a couple of hours to get there, it had taken him 45 years. It might even have been a little longer. Chris Moore’s first day at the BBC was August 27, 1979. It was a Bank Holiday Monday, and he was told to start work on the Tuesday instead. So Moore took his family for a picnic in the Mourne Mountains.
Roxane Gay: “I do think that people want an explanation oftentimes for why someone is fat” - The Currency

6 days ago | thecurrency.news | Kate Demolder

On a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host asked author Roxane Gay: “How do you define being a bad feminist, and do you still consider yourself one?” It had been just over a decade since Gay wrote the blockbuster essay collection, Bad Feminist, in which she explored gender equity while simultaneously aligning herself with things that could seem at odds with it: faking orgasms, listening to hip-hop, and not caring to learn how to fix problems in her car.
The State can’t build what it can’t manage: Rewinding the week that was - The Currency

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Ian Kehoe

Governments are a lot like families. The way they succeed is very often the same, and the way they fail is very often unique. We expect governments to deliver on the priorities for which they were elected, and success is judged on the degree to which delivery occurs. The public mind is a savvy one. It understands many promises are not going to be kept for a variety of reasons. In general, however, a government elected to create jobs will be judged on whether it actually created those jobs.
Naoise Dolan: “Politically, it’s been a relief to be back in Dublin” - The Currency

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Kate Demolder

Naoise Dolan, the literary darling responsible for countless newspaper columns calling out banks with Israeli ties, the “pathetic cleaving” of the UK Labour Party to the far right, and the near-endless hoops of obtaining an autism diagnosis, might feel incredibly grave and serious on paper. But when I speak with her, she is considered, profound, and light in a way one might hope a table-mate at a wedding might be, but rarely is.
Parades and paychecks: A nation at odds with itself - The Currency

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Siobhan Brett

Is the proverbial dust settling in the States? Once ubiquitous, Elon Musk has gone into relative retreat. Musk’s bespoke agency, DOGE, appears mostly now in news headlines that have to do with court hearings instituted weeks ago. The second Trump administration’s “first 100 days” have come and gone. Ardent supporters of the president will tell you he’s just getting started. Detractors say they cannot remember a 100 days so full of hubris, executive action or executive dysfunction.
Energia progresses multi-billion sale as market watches for bellwether deal - The Currency

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers

The much-reported, long-anticipated sale of Energia has seen a lot of false dawns but the Irish gas and electricity utility is a step closer with an initial round of indicative, non-binding bidding starting on a deal that could be worth between €2.5 billion to €3 billion. The Currency understands that its owner, US-based asset manager I Squared Capital, is hoping to move along quickly, with phase-two bidding from serious parties taking place in July.
How Gerry Adams won against the BBC: The inside story of the trial - The Currency

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Francesca Comyn

Handshakes, photographs, and almost instantaneous texts of congratulations captured the jubilance among Gerry Adams’s lawyers as the news sank in outside Court 24 that they had won a resounding victory for their client. A vindicated Adams remained sombre, however. Legs crossed, he sat at the back of Court 24 and looked at his phone as the jury verdict landed after six hours and thirty-nine minutes of deliberations that began on Thursday morning.
Irish accountancy and advisory firms enter a new phase as private equity backers weigh up exits - The Currency

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Michael Cogley

In August 2021, private equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners became one of the first investment houses to take a significant stake in a high-profile accountancy firm, charting a path away from the partner model that has defined the industry for decades. TowerBrook, which has headquarters in London and New York, outlined its intention to invest heavily in talent and technology at its new firm EisnerAmper, while also ramping up its spending on mergers and acquisitions.