DHL Express launches helicopter delivery service between London’s Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf January 21, 2015 You know what it’s like. You land at Heathrow, those all important M&A dealsheets from Asia all set to be whisked off to your boss when – shock horror – the Piccadilly Line goes down. If only I could fly them there, you think, then we’d be first on the deal and I’d get my [...]
Burns Night: where to celebrate January’s hottest event in London January 13, 2016 Mr Fogg’s The waiting staff at Mr Fogg’s, a bar themed around the famous fictitious Victorian traveller of the same name in Mayfair, are swapping their military uniforms for kilts. Guests are invited to toast the Scottish bard with a glass of Glenmorangie Original 10yr whisky, sample haggis canapes and enjoy a recital of his [...]
Autumn Statement 2015 UK: Here’s how much each London borough makes from business rates November 25, 2015 The much-maligned business rates system could be in for a shakeup during today's Autumn Statement, after retailers held talks with the Treasury to demand urgent reforms to the regime. While some have suggested a major shakeup, including a revaluation of properties to ease pressure on retailers paying rates on properties last valued at the height [...]
Brokers can be sweary, but bankers have a lot to lose on social media September 30, 2015 Social media is a minefield in the City. A recent study has shown that recruiters will look through everything on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook – from political opinions to topless selfies. But according to London’s recruiters, brokers can get away with a lot more than the rest of the financial district. Financial recruiters [...]
The space to create: Ogilvy & Mather UK’s Annette King on New York and the South Bank January 18, 2016 "If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data – it doesn’t mean the ad is written. Then you’ve got to close the door and write something…” Few would question David Ogilvy’s contribution to advertising. But the idea of closed doors seems anathema to the creative process today [...]
RBS boss suits up with workers for 500-mile slog around the UK September 3, 2015 THE NIGHTS are getting longer and the weather less pleasant, but there’s no slowing down for RBS boss Ross McEwan. He’s planning to team up with hundreds of the bank’s staff to cycle 500 miles from London to Edinburgh. RBS, which yesterday announced its partnership with Sport Relief 2016, is getting 750 staffers to cycle [...]
Happy first birthday: Contactless cards have been on the Tube for a year September 17, 2015 They may account for 20 per cent of all pay-as-you-go journeys now, but contactless payments on the Tube were introduced just one year ago today. Over 180 million journeys have been made with contactless cards, more than 625,000 a day. A whopping one in seven of all contactless card payments in the UK are made [...]
Deliveroo co-founder Will Shu talks buffalo wings, concerned ex-colleagues and hedging bankers February 22, 2016 By the time Will Shu, co-founder of Deliveroo, launched his company, he knew acutely what problem he was trying to solve. The former investment banker grew up in Connecticut, went to college in Chicago and then went straight to work for Morgan Stanley in New York. “This was 2001, and things were very different then. The [...]
Best mobile network for Londoners: EE and Vodafone crowned winners of first London stress test September 30, 2015 EE and Vodafone have been crowned the best mobile networks for Londoners in the first performance stress test focusing specifically on the capital. Mobile performance tends to… vary between urban and rural areas, to say the least, but now a London winner has finally been found. Providers were put to the test across London’s urban [...]
Three things you didn’t know about… July 26, 2015 Nikkei chairman Tsuneo Kita 1 Back in 2012 he tangled with a Japanese gossip mag that had printed rumours about his private life. 2 The 68-year-old has had his eye on the Financial Times for a while, registering his interest in the paper with Pearson execs over several years. 3 Kita first joined publishing house [...]