City Moves for 26 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 25, 2015 Deloitte The business advisory firm has appointed Jurga McCluskey as partner and head of its UK immigration practice. She joins from PwC Legal, where she was head of private clients and the lead on a number of key corporate clients. McCluskey has also worked at Fragomen. BlackRock Thomas Müller has been appointed managing director and [...]
A sharing economy must be a trusting economy April 18, 2015 Trust is the foundation stone of all transactions. We traditionally rely on meeting people and building trust over time, but in an on-demand world, we don’t have the luxury of being able to wait. We’re moving from a world where people tend to know each other and interact with a few individuals, to a world where we are constantly interacting [...]
A sharing economy must be a trusting economy April 18, 2015 Husayn Kassai is CEO and Co-Founder of Onfido. Trust is the foundation stone of all transactions. We traditionally rely on meeting people and building trust over time, but in an on-demand world, we don’t have the luxury of being able to wait. We’re moving from a world where people tend to know each other and interact with a [...]
Apprenticeship Week: We can celebrate a revolution in the UK’s skills market March 12, 2015 As many of us look forward to the weekend, I’m here reflecting on the eighth National Apprenticeship Week and the hundreds of events that have taken place across the capital, recognising how apprenticeships have transformed the skills market in the UK. As the mayor’s ambassador for training and enterprise, and as head of emerging talent [...]
Britain’s 20 most attractive employers are … John Lewis, BMW, British Airways April 8, 2015 We spend the vast majority of our waking lives at work. And yet so many of us grumble about where we work, spend our lives worrying about job security and sometimes end up dedicating our evenings and weekends to getting the job done too. So it might be worth taking note of a new survey [...]
Paperchase poised for sale after wrapping up Christmas season January 12, 2015 High street stationery chain Paperchase enjoyed a surge in trading over Christmas, paving the way for a potential sale of the business this year. Primary Capital, which has owned Paperchase since 2010, has hired PwC and Financo to handle a potential sale of the 46-year-old business last year after receiving several bid approaches. The company [...]
UK oil and gas companies facing “triple whammy” threat February 11, 2015 Oil and gas producers are facing an "economic triple whammy" as plummeting oil prices squeeze revenues, forcing through cost cuts, which in turn could lead to industry-wide under-investment. Oil prices have fallen around 60 per cent since July last year, forcing FTSE-listed companies such BP, BG Group and Tullow Oil to make huge write-offs and [...]
City Moves for 12 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 11, 2015 Lloyds Bank Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has announced the appointment of Christopher Sood-Nicholls as managing director. He joined in 2000, and has since held management roles in IT operations, executive management and corporate development at the bank. BlackRock The investment management firm has appointed Deborah Winshel to lead its impact investing platform. She was formerly [...]
Bob Diamond ditches Barclays Wealth as his charity’s bankers January 4, 2015 Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond has hired State Street as the banker for his charitable foundation, its annual report shows. The Diamond Family Foundation used to use Barclays Wealth as its bankers, alongside PwC as its auditors. But its latest financial report shows that Diamond’s charitable unit picked US bank State Street instead for the [...]
City Moves for 16 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 15, 2015 GE Capital Isabel Fernandez has been named chief commercial officer of the financial services unit of General Electric. Fernandez has been with the firm since 2000. Prior to starting with GE Capital, she was vice president of Project Finance at ABN Ambro Bank. Mediobanca The Italian-based bank has appointed Felipe De Grado as managing director [...]