City Moves for 11 September 2013 | Who’s switching jobs September 10, 2013 Covington The law firm has announced the appointment of Charlotte Hill as a partner in its London office. Hill specialises in financial regulatory matters. She was most recently a partner at Stephenson Harwood. PwC Daniel Hepburn has joined the reward team at the professional services firm, where he will advise on the design and implementation [...]
CentralNic raises £7m in float on Alternative Investment Market September 2, 2013 INTERNET domain name provider CentralNic Group began trading on the junior stock market yesterday after raising £7m. The firm, which sells premium domains with endings such as uk.com and eu.com, hopes to cash in on rising demand for personalised web addresses. “The response from investors to the IPO has reaffirmed our belief that CentralNic is [...]
Just 53 London Overground staff voted for this weekend’s strike August 22, 2013 LONDON Overground users are facing a bank holiday weekend of travel chaos due to strike action – despite just 53 staff voting for the walkout. Transport for London has unveiled plans to sack 130 guards on the network as part of a cost cutting measure, prompting Bob Crow’s RMT union to ballot for strike action against compulsory [...]
City Moves for 21 August 2013 | Who’s switching jobs August 20, 2013 DUAL The underwriting arm of Hyperion Insurance Group has announced the appointment of Damian Crowe as a senior underwriter in its financial institutions division. Crowe was most recently at Chartis UK, where he was a senior underwriter in its financial lines division. Prior to that, he was a broker at FirstCity Partnership. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher [...]
London Overground backs strike in face of compulsory job losses August 15, 2013 COMMUTERS who use the booming London Overground network are set to face disruption after unions yesterday announced strike action in a row over job losses. No date has been set for the walkouts, which relate to proposals to sack 130 train guards for cost-cutting reasons. Overground services on the Euston-Watford and East London Line already operate [...]
Boris Bikes set to get harder to find as staff stage two-day strike August 11, 2013 BORIS Bike workers last night began a 48-hour strike over pay and conditions, in a move that is set to reduce the number of cycles available on London’s streets. Around 150 staff have refused to work until 9pm tomorrow, meaning there will be fewer drivers to move bikes to areas with high demand. “Staff running [...]
Boris Bike workers prepare for 48-hour strike over pay dispute August 4, 2013 WORKERS at the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme will go on strike for two days next week, transport union RMT confirmed yesterday. Around 63 workers will join the action, which begins at 9pm on Sunday, lasting 48 hours. The RMT is citing the imposition of a pay rise limited to two per cent, shift pattern changes [...]
Mervyn King and Lily Allen chat music at first day of Ashes Test July 18, 2013 SIR MERVYN King was continuing to enjoy his retirement yesterday. After being spotted watching the tennis at Wimbledon earlier in the month, the former Bank of England governor was at Lord’s for the first day of the second Ashes Test. However, King was not chatting with fellow banking or even cricket chums – he was [...]
Welcome to the Punch: interview with Mark Strong | City A.M. March 31, 2013 HE last time I saw Mark Strong he was beating up an 11-year-old. The time before that, he was pulling off George Clooney’s fingernails. He’s played an assassin in Revolver, a traitor in Tristan & Isolde, an alien super villain in Green Lantern and the chilling Lord Blackman in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. He is [...]
Les Misérables is one for afficionados of the musical only January 10, 2013 FILM LES MISÉRABLES Cert 12A ***** (fans of the stage musical) * (everybody else) I TELL you what, there ain’t half a lot of singing in Les Misérables. If you’re not au fait with musicals, it doesn’t go: acting, acting, acting, song, acting, acting, acting, song. It goes: song, song, song, song, song, song, song. [...]