Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie.

She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being 'attractive and attracted'…

The FCA has 'spoken': James Lewis, the former chief executive of brokerage Shard Capital - and Lars Windhorst's go-to broker - banned for providing incorrect information about clients’ cash balances.ft.com/content/801e5e… @bondhack Suzi Ring

ICYMI over the bank holiday weekend: we took a closer look at the financial acrobatics unfolding at Asda

The increasingly complex property deals happening under the Issas/TDR mean that the grocer faces an annual interest bill of half a billion pounds (from <£70m under Walmart)

Hours of entertainment here 👇🏻

Here’s our updated story on 777 Partners and the suit filed by Leadenhall with more details on the revelations about A-Cap. Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The sound you hear is the sound of political pundits deleting 15-hour old tweets

Asda described its £2bn takeover of petrol stations from its owners as “leverage neutral”

But that’s because they loaded the supermarket with liabilities that do not count towards headline debt figures, such as borrowing against ground rent from Macquarie
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Read the whole thread…

Incredible read from a couple of years back by Tabby Kinder on Simon Sadler, the Blackpool Football Club owner and hedge fund boss now at the centre of a Hong Kong insider trading probe

New.

Another missed payment deadline by 777 Partners, this time to Everton, puts the firm’s takeover of the club into fresh doubt, while one of its airlines has just entered voluntary administration.

By Paul Brown and Philippe Auclair

josimarfootball.com/2024/04/30/kin…

NEW: The private equity buyer of The Body Shop paid just £3.5m upfront for the retail chain before its collapse. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

‘PRs can upload their pieces directly instead’

What a sentence.