City Moves for 18 December 2015 | Who’s switching jobs December 17, 2015 TOGETHER Andrew Murdoch has joined specialist lender Together as group valuations manager, after 12 years with Eddisons. A Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors-registered valuer and registered receiver, he has extensive experience in valuation, asset management and value enhancement. At Eddisons, he spent eight years specialising in corporate recovery, insolvency and LPA receiverships, including two year-long [...]
Kyle Edmund wins $250,000 and doubles his season’s prize money in the space of three hours December 6, 2015 British youngster Kyle Edmund’s landmark week culminated in lucrative fashion on Saturday night when he more than doubled his 2015 earnings with victory at the inaugural Tie Break Tens event in London. The 20-year-old, part of Great Britain’s historic Davis Cup triumph in Belgium just six days earlier, beat team-mate Andy Murray in the final [...]
Battle of Britain memorial flypast: Spitfires and Hurricanes fly over London in honour of 75th anniversary as Westminster Abbey service takes place September 20, 2015 A flypast of WWII planes commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain has taken to the skies above London, as a service was held at Westminster Abbey. The memorial flight of Hurricanes and Spitfires made there way over Westminster and across London at lunch time on Sunday, as part of a service honouring [...]
Ex-M&S exec Simon Webster to lead Silvertown Quays regeneration in London’s Royal Docks January 18, 2015 Former Sainsbury’s and Marks and Spencer director Simon Webster has been appointed to lead the £3.5bn regeneration of Silvertown Quays in London’s Royal Docks. The Silvertown Partnership, a consortium of developers Chelsfield Properties, First Base and Macquarie Capital, said Webster has joined the team as managing director. He was previously managing director of The Goodman [...]
At the close: FTSE 100 closes flat on first trading day in November November 2, 2015 The first trading day of November saw the FTSE 100 close flat as the news that Visa Europe is to be bought by Visa US helped rally banking stocks. The FTSE 100 ended Monday's session 0.01 per cent up at 6,362 points. However, HSBC, which reported a jump in pre-tax profit to $6.1bn (£3.95bn) for the third quarter, [...]
Ladies who don’t lunch: Maike Currie talks to financial services entrepreneur Joanne Smith about dry January and why compliance is the “new rock ‘n roll” February 18, 2016 My lunch date with Joanne Smith, financial services veteran turned entrepreneur, is long overdue. I have been using stalling tactics and to be honest it’s due to her area of expertise: compliance. (Read: boring box-ticker.) But it’s a New Year and, cloaked in noble resolutions, I finally make the time to meet her at a [...]
City Moves for 09 April 2015 | Who’s switching jobs April 8, 2015 Lambert Smith Hampton The commercial property consultancy has promoted Sean Brew to lead its London team, following its acquisition of ES Group last month. He joined in 2011 from DTZ to head Lambert Smith Hampton’s national property and asset management team. M&G Real Estate Kerry Williams has been appointed retail investment director at M&G’s real [...]
Queen could have racked up £1bn rent during her 63-year reign September 8, 2015 The Queen would have forked out over £1bn had she had paid rent on Buckingham Palace and her other six properties during her 63 year and seven month reign. As Queen Elizabeth II becomes the UK’s longest serving monarch, lettings agent Rentify has crunched the figures to see how much she might have paid had [...]
Topland launches hotels joint venture with Trafford City site September 29, 2015 TOPLAND Group is planning a further foray into the UK hospitality sector after launching a joint venture with Marick Real Estate and Mill Lane Estates. The trio said yesterday they plan to target hotel developments across the UK starting with a new scheme called the Trafford City Hotel opposite the Trafford Centre shopping mall in [...]
HSBC’s ringfence relief but HQ could still move November 2, 2015 Concerns that HSBC could lose control of its UK retail arm under ring-fencing rules have been “satisfactorily” dealt with according to the bank’s chief executive. New regulations to take effect in 2019 requiring banks to “ring-fence” their high street operations had caused the bank to worry it would have no say over the capital, dividends, [...]