City Moves for 5 October 2018 – who’s switching jobs at Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Evestment, Nucleus and City AM? October 5, 2018 Today's City Moves covers pharma, investment, IT and City Moves. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Hikma Pharmaceuticals Hikma Pharmaceuticals has appointed Sagar Patel to a newly created London-based role as the European commercial head for its injectables business. Sagar joins Hikma at a time of organisational change to boost the group’s senior [...]
City Moves for 23 November – who’s switching jobs at Sthree, Saxo Bank and Savills? November 23, 2018 Who’s on the move? SThree SThree, the international STEM specialist staffing business, is pleased to announce that Denise Collis has been appointed in the newly-formed role of employee representative non-executive director, with effect from 1 December 2018. This appointment is an early adoption of recently announced changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code, due to [...]
Crossrail latest: Here’s a look at how the new Paddington Elizabeth Line station is shaping up November 28, 2017 Work on the £14.8bn Crossrail project is drawing nearer to completion, while the 10 stations being built in central London for the Elizabeth Line are nearly finished. And today, Crossrail has unveiled new pictures of how the Paddington Elizabeth Line station is shaping up, which features the installation of one of the capital’s largest ever [...]
Panasonic to ditch UK to move headquarters to Amsterdam August 30, 2018 Panasonic is to move its European headquarters to Amsterdam from London, in a decision thought to be a result of uncertainty around Brexit. The Japanese electronics company confirmed today that it would move to the Netherlands due to concerns that it could face a hefty tax bill once the UK leaves the EU. Laurent Abadie, [...]
Guest notes: Boatman’s analysis on Babcock should be treated with scepticism November 23, 2018 All the noise around Babcock and its financial woes have left me feeling distinctly uncomfortable. It’s not the fact that the company has issues, as do most outsourcers. My problem is with the source of the recent vicious bear raid on the business – the so-called Boatman Capital. It is a month since Boatman and [...]
Commonwealth: Blockchain regulation multiplier? April 9, 2019 I first met Loretta Joseph at the CogX conference at Tobacco Dock in London’s Wapping last June. I recently caught up with her via a WhatsApp call when she was in Istanbul en route from Mauritius to Serbia. As a former banker, with 25 years of experience, she has advised international banks, hedge- and pension-funds [...]
Brexit trade deal: City lobbyist hits out at Michel Barnier’s hard talk on Brexit trade deal December 19, 2017 The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator took the shine off the City’s Christmas party season as he suggested a bespoke deal could not be agreed for London’s financial services sector. “There is no place [for financial services]. There is not a single trade agreement that is open to financial services. It doesn’t exist,” he told the [...]
Trust in the City October 19, 2018 Global Ethics Day was on 17 October. Now in its fifth year, this regular calendar event was created by the Carnegie Council to mark its centenary in 2014. The broad theme this year was ‘ethics in action’, and we partnered with the Carnegie Council and CFA Institute to produce a series of films called Ethics [...]
Picture this: Art-enriched offices make us more productive October 17, 2018 Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I like to think that art holds the key to unlocking a more productive economy. Recently, Frieze – which is one of the biggest events in the cultural calendar – saw the art world’s elite descend upon the capital. It’s a time of year when [...]
Saudi Aramco refutes claims IPO to be shelved as the Investment Association objects to the bending of London listing rules October 15, 2017 Saudi Aramco has refuted reports that its planned float is set to be shelved. The group was addressing claims in the Financial Times over the weekend that the oil giant was considering shelving plans for an international listing in favour of a private share sale to the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors. [...]