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The Big Four must wake up from their pandemic dream (opens the original)
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The pandemic was the worst thing that could have happened to the Big Four giants and the overall consultancy market. At the time, these firms were flying high, flooded with inquiries from businesses needing help to navigate the ‘once-in-a-lifetime ‘ event, but this ‘sugar rush’ didn’t last forever, and it gave the industry a false hope of double-digit growth, writes Maria Ward-Brennan. It may seem like a lifetime ago, but perfectly respectable single-digit revenue growth was once the norm for th
Grant Thornton takes on Big Four giants with new £40K salary for London grads (opens the original)
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Grant Thornton has raised its London graduate starting salary to £40,000 and introduced “milestone bonuses” into the pay structure as part of the firm’s ambition for significant growth. The private equity-backed firm has overhauled its early careers programme, first reported by City AM in April, and will offer ‘market-leading’ starting salaries to London juniors of £40,000 from 2027, as it steps up its efforts to compete for the City’s professional services talent. Its competitors, KPMG, typical
Consultancy firms told to step up as bosses threaten to cut ties (opens the original)
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Stretched corporates are under pressure and looking to slash costs – and consultancy firms are in the firing line, writes Maria Ward-Brennan. The golden age of post-pandemic consulting is fading, leaving traditional advisory firms with a clear ultimatum: innovate or be replaced. The next generation of executives is pushing to reduce dependence on external consultants. According to a new report by Source, 26 per cent of direct reports to C-suite executives say their companies are actively taking
Hugging Face hack spells 'emergency for the City of London', warns top lawyer (opens the original)
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Everything companies have done to prepare for a cyber attack is now “completely old world” following the OpenAI–Hugging Face hack over the summer, a top City lawyer has warned. The “unpredecented” July hack, in which OpenAI’s model escaped a controlled test by itself and broke into the AI platform Hugging Face, prompted a probe from the UK government and set alight warnings around the pace of AI development. Those concerns gathered pace last week when Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher, quit h
Drone strikes and noise disputes: The soaring risks of the global data centre boom (opens the original)
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As data centres scale, consume more power, and draw tighter community scrutiny, insurance risks are becoming increasingly complex. As AI infrastructure grows, so do legal risks: large lawsuits involving data centres more than tripled from four in all of 2021 to 14 in the first half of 2026, according to a Howden report. Planning and environmental disputes are the main drivers of recent legal disputes. While noise and nuisance complaints, including those concerning diesel generator emissions and
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