Are you working overseas? October 22, 2014 Working overseas and sending money back home should be simple in our modern ‘digital age’, but in many cases, you could find you are losing a lot of your salary through unfavourable exchange rates and high transfer fees. With City A.M. International Payments you can expect rates that are typically 3-4pc better than you can [...]
Thinking bigger: My Voucher Codes founder Mark Pearson talks Fern Britton and young tech entrepreneurs November 16, 2014 While we’re talking, it suddenly dawns on Mark Pearson that it’s his company’s eighth birthday. “It’s definitely around now,” he laughs, raising his empty plastic water cup in the air. In June of this year, Pearson sold My Voucher Codes, as part of his parent company Markco Media, to global mobile money technology provider [...]
Justin King has his final party at Sainsbury’s July 3, 2014 Some might think it’s odd to listen to “White Christmas” and eat Brussels sprouts on the hottest day of the year, but certainly not Sainsbury’s staff. “It’s the third time we’ve had our Christmas review on the hottest day of the year – it’s something of a hat-trick,” chief Justin King told The Capitalist at [...]
Against the Grain: Myths and reality of Valentine’s Day: It’s more than just a marketing ploy February 4, 2014 VALENTINE’S Day is almost upon us. Many readers may recall a time when its main purpose was for love-struck teenagers to communicate, anonymously or otherwise, with the objects of their desire. Now it is big business. It is hardly possible to enter a pub or restaurant without being exhorted to publicly display fidelity and love [...]
Treasury Tinder: New networking tool for civil servants likened to dating app July 14, 2014 There’s no need to get drunk at the office Christmas party to meet the guy or gal of your dreams these days – well, not if you work at Her Majesty’s Treasury, that is. The government’s new dating system, sorry, networking tool, has been eagerly welcomed by No. 11 wags. They’ve already nicknamed it Treasury [...]
LiteBulb Group’s Simon McGivern and James Phillips talk Mary Berry, cashpoint encounters and woodwork January 18, 2015 It's not every day that you bump into an old friend at a cash machine in Fulham and end up hatching a business – but then Simon McGivern and James Phillips, the founders of LiteBulb Group, are not your average pair. They went to school together (although they didn’t know each other very well) and [...]
City can kickstart title charge with victory at the Emirates September 11, 2014 BEN CLEMINSON WITH HIS BEST FOOTBALL BETS FOR THE WEEKEND TO FOOTBALL fans, the international break coming immediately after deadline day is like the tantalising postponement a child endures in between opening their Christmas presents and waiting until after lunch to play with them. For Arsenal fans, seeing new signing Danny Welbeck bag a brace against Switzerland [...]
Some games to get you through Christmas December 18, 2013 Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag The Assassin’s Creed franchise has been rumbling on for years but the latest iteration promises something a bit different – this time you take the role of a swashbuckling pirate pillaging his way through the lush Caribbean. The graphics alone make this worth a look. Knack This on-rails adventure isn’t [...]
Our pick of the launch-day titles December 11, 2013 Forza 5 The sixth title in the Forza Motorsport franchise has been released exclusively for Xbox One. It uses the new graphics engine to create a highly-realistic driving experience. Forza 4’s world tour tracks are replaced with levels divided into categories such as compact sports cars and track toys. Dead Rising 3 Dead Rising is [...]
The City’s office choir kicks off LSE with “Let’s go fly a kite” from Mary Poppins June 23, 2014 Stock market ceremonies vary from place to place, there are bells, buzzers and countdown orbs, but we’d wager none have ever kicked off a day’s trading with a song – until yesterday. Stocks began Monday morning trading on the LSE following a rendition of “Let’s go fly a kite” from Mary Poppins – sung by [...]