#UK neobank Monzo hits .9B valuation with secondary market sale

#UK neobank Monzo hits $5.9B valuation with secondary market sale

Monzo is now valued at $5.9 billion after the U.K.-based challenger bank confirmed a secondary market share sale to provide liquidity for its employees. The transaction, first rumored yesterday, saw existing investors such as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund (GIC) and StepStone Group procuring additional shares in the London-based fintech. A secondary market sale essentially rewards…

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#Google’s revised ad targeting plan triggers fresh competition concerns in UK

#Google’s revised ad targeting plan triggers fresh competition concerns in UK

What is going on with Google’s long-touted migration to an alternative adtech stack (aka its Privacy Sandbox proposal)? What indeed. The entire multi-year endeavour to reshape the commercial web looks dangerously close to being killed off after the latest intervention by the U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). This comes on top…

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#Disney to Spend B a Year in Europe, Warner Bros. Discovery Exec Looks to 2026 Max Launch in U.K.

#Disney to Spend $1B a Year in Europe, Warner Bros. Discovery Exec Looks to 2026 Max Launch in U.K.

Everyone agrees: the U.K. is and will remain a production hotspot. TV bosses from Warner Bros. Discovery, Sky, Disney, and Paramount Global on Tuesday hailed the knock-on impact of investment in the British and wider European market at the Royal Television Society’s London Convention on Tuesday. The conversation, which included Disney’s Nami Patel, senior vp,…

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#Louis Theroux-Produced Series ‘Boybands Forever’ With Simon Cowell, Robbie Williams Set for BBC

#Louis Theroux-Produced Series ‘Boybands Forever’ With Simon Cowell, Robbie Williams Set for BBC

BBC Two will air a new series on the boyband mania of the 1990s and 2000s featuring interviews with Take That‘s Robbie Williams, Westlife’s Brian McFadden, and music mogul Simon Cowell. Boybands Forever, a three-episode series, will air later in 2024. Produced by Mindhouse Productions (Louis Theroux Interviews, Lockerbie) and from producer-husband-and-wife pair Louis Theroux…

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#Ex-Soccer Star David Beckham to Speak at Royal Television Society’s London Convention

#Ex-Soccer Star David Beckham to Speak at Royal Television Society’s London Convention

Former soccer star David Beckham has joined the lineup of industry leaders speaking at the Royal Television Society‘s (RTS) London Convention this year. On Sept. 17, Beckham will be joined in conversation by Jane Featherstone, co-founder and chief creative officer of content company Sister. The ex-sportsman, who is married to Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, captured…

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#Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Winterbottom to Receive Raindance Film Festival’s Icon Awards

#Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Winterbottom to Receive Raindance Film Festival’s Icon Awards

British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and British director Michael Winterbottom will receive this year’s Raindance Icon Awards. Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, The Martian) will be presented with his award at Raindance’s opening gala U.K. premiere of Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo in London, and Winterbottom during Raindance’s jury awards ceremony a week later. Raindance founder Elliot Grove…

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#Nicki Minaj’s Amsterdam Gig Axed After Reported Detention at Airport

#Nicki Minaj’s Amsterdam Gig Axed After Reported Detention at Airport

Nicki Minaj‘s concert in Amsterdam has been canceled, its promoter said on Friday, after the rapper was reportedly detained last week at the city’s airport for “possession of soft drugs”. Dutch police had told NBC News that they “arrested a 41-year-old American woman at Schiphol Airport,” but the woman wasn’t named. “After consultation with the Public Prosecution…

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