Who’s switching jobs September 19, 2012 Canaccord Genuity The broker has appointed Peter O’Malley as chief executive of Canaccord Genuity Asia. He joins from Kenosis Capital Partners, where he was chief executive and founder. O’Malley has previously worked at Deutsche Bank as a managing director, and has also held senior roles at HSBC. Mizuho International The London-based securities and investment banking [...]
Rapid Responses September 11, 2012 Aim shares in Isas [Re: Isa cash for SMEs, Monday] David O’Hara has launched an e-petition to allow Aim shares to be included in Isas. We strongly support it. Inclusion would provide valuable fuel for the UK economy’s engines of growth – small and mid-sized companies. The government has cited various excuses for this exclusion, [...]
Beat the back to work blues with a revamped daily routine August 27, 2012 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT NOT KNOWN as “the ugly cousin of hangovers” for nothing, post-holiday blues can be at their worst this time of year. They are helped along by the knowledge that the last Bank Holiday until mid-winter has passed, a new school term is around the corner and there are no more Olympics [...]
200m sign up for Runescape July 19, 2012 The Capitalist has played a little FIFA 2012 and has heard of Angry Birds but until yesterday had not been aware of another computer game called Runescape. Yesterday the creators of Runescape, a company based in Cambridge called Jagex, claimed the adventure fantasy game now has 200m registered users, making it, they claim, the most [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 6, 2012 Riverview Law Paul Bird has been appointed finance director at the law firm. He joins from Pearson Education, where he was finance director and company secretary at its subsidiary, Education Development International. UBS Global Asset Management Stephen Hutton has been appointed head of UK wholesale at the asset management firm. He joins from Zurich Intermediary, [...]
Bob Diamond’s fiercest critic threatened by act of sabotage August 23, 2012 BANK-BOTHERING Labour MP John Mann won few friends in the City establishment with his robust denunciations of Bob Diamond during July’s hearings into Barclays’ abuse of the Libor rate. But the star of the Treasury select committee (who describes himself in press releases as “Outspoken Labour MP John Mann”) yesterday revealed that he had a [...]
Permira pulls plans for dividend recapitalisation for Iglo group July 10, 2012 PERMIRA has pulled the plug on its plans to refinance the debt of its Birds Eye food group Iglo which would have seen the buyout house take a hefty dividend, the private equity firm said yesterday. Permira had lined up a dividend recapitalisation with Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank just days after rejecting a €2.5bn [...]
Hotel interiors need not be dull and predictable – just ask Kit Kemp October 25, 2012 I want to pique the imagination of even the most jaded businessman,” says Kit Kemp, design director and co-founder of Firmdale Hotels, the group that includes the buzzy Soho, Covent Garden and Charlotte Street Hotels. “If I can do that for a second, then we’ve achieved something.” Pique, she definitely does, with her love of [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 7, 2012 Qatar Financial Centre Authority Bob Wigley, chairman of Yell Group and former chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe, Middle East and Africa, has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority. In the new role, Wigley, who was appointed as an ambassador for UK business by David Cameron in 2011, will promote [...]
Angry Birds leads iPhone app boom as boss gets paid $376m January 9, 2012 FACEBOOK and the Angry Birds game were the most downloaded apps of 2011, Apple revealed yesterday, and the remaining eight of the top 10 were all games. Early last month Apple said its 2011 app downloads had smashed through the 100m mark. The technology giant’s chief executive Tim Cook received almost $1m (£646,700) in cash [...]