Podcasts

LondonMetric Property is a FTSE 250 Real Estate Investment Trust specialising in property investment and development. It delivers attractive returns for shareholders through a strategy of increasing income and improving capital values. On the day of its half year results, Andrew Jones, the company’s CEO, joined Share Radio to discuss the numbers.

Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets, joined Share Radio Breakfast to offer an immediate reaction to the release of the Bank of England Stress Test results. Were there any major surprises?

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is meeting in Vienna, where it's hoped a plan to cut output could help curb global oversupply. But how does the global outlook affect the oil industry in the UK? A new survey finds that the market might have bottomed out, and there could even be signs of recovery. To find out more, James Brydges spoke to Uisdean Vass, oil expert from law firm Bond Dickinson.

The ruling coalition party of Japan has extended the end of the current extraordinary Diet session by two weeks, giving itself a window to enact bills on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and pension reform. But is Abe's rush to ratify the TPP pointless given the 12-party trade pact's slim chances of obtaining US ratification? To discuss this and more, Seijiro Takeshita, Professor of Management and Information at the University of Shizuoka, joined Share Radio Breakfast from Japan.

And as part of our series with Financial Journalist and Author Rodney Hobson, we'll be talking about pyramid scams.

In just two weeks, more than 650 people reported losing over £5.5m to bank transfer scams. Which? is submitting this information to the Payment Systems Regulator as evidence in its super-complaint into bank transfer fraud. UK consumers now make over 70 million bank transfers a month, but victims conned into transferring money by bank transfer to a scammer currently have no legal right to get their money back from their bank. Olivia Demetriades spoke to Pete Moorey, Head of Campaigns at Which?.

Data breaches and malware infections are still occurring at unprecedented rates, despite corporations spending millions on security products and services to ward off cyber criminals. To discuss the future of cyber crime, Gregor Watt spoke to Dr Giovanni Vigna, the co-founder of Lastline and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California.

The Bigger Picture with Simon Rose and Rishi Patel, a Public Affairs Consultant at FTI Consulting. They discussed: whether the Conservatives leaked Brexit plan is to “have cake and eat it”, Theresa May’s plans to address excessive executive pay, UKIP leadership and The Snoopers Charter.

Simon Johnson Head of Corporate Broking at finnCap joins Simon Rose for a roundup of some of the biggest news coming out of the junior stock market this week: TrakM8, CityFibre, Patisserie Holdings

But first- regular listeners of the Evening Show will recognise the name Wey Education- we talked to them on the AIM Show earlier this year. Wey Education - the UK's only online independent secondary school teaching GCSE and A Levels - has seen a 50% rise in the number of students in the last school year. That means revenue rose by 38% to £1.5 million pounds compared to £1.1m in the previous period. James Brydges spoke to Wey Education's CEO David Massey James started by asking David how Wey Education differs from traditional schools