City Sup€rtax August 16, 2011 PLANS FOR EUROPE-WIDE LEVY WOULD HIT SQUARE MILE GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel rocked investors last night with a shock commitment to push for a EU-wide financial transactions tax, often known as a Tobin tax. The plans for a Europe-wide levy would knock the Square Mile, threatening to push even more jobs to lower-tax corners of [...]
City Sup€rtax August 16, 2011 PLANS FOR EUROPE-WIDE LEVY WOULD HIT SQUARE MILE GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel rocked investors last night with a shock commitment to push for a EU-wide financial transactions tax, often known as a Tobin tax. The plans for a Europe-wide levy would knock the Square Mile, threatening to push even more jobs to lower-tax corners of [...]
City living: quit the commute September 22, 2011 BREAD Street, Poultry, Oat Lane – it doesn’t take a genius to guess that the City is about business. It’s certainly not the first place you imagine yourself living when you arrive in London. Indeed, the aldermen are trying to stop David Cameron’s attempts to turn it into a more residential area by relaxing planning [...]
LONDON’S MAYORS IN THE FRAME FOR STYLE September 4, 2011 WHO ARE the City’s most stylish cyclists? Boris Johnson and Michael Bear, says fashion photographer Horst A Friedrichs, who has immortalised the Mayor of London and the Lord Mayor in a Square Mile photography exhibition of London cyclists on their two-wheeled vehicle of choice. Johnson and Bear are joined in the City Cycle Style exhibition, [...]
Get inspired by Bloomberg’s City relay race September 12, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT TTHIS Thursday, the fifth annual Bloomberg Square Mile Relay is happening. This race is a little bit unique in that you get to race against rival businesses, in relay, right on your doorstep. I love the combination of the competitive edge with the fitness bit with this event. And the fact [...]
Get inspired by Bloomberg’s City relay race September 12, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT TTHIS Thursday, the fifth annual Bloomberg Square Mile Relay is happening. This race is a little bit unique in that you get to race against rival businesses, in relay, right on your doorstep. I love the combination of the competitive edge with the fitness bit with this event. And the fact [...]
TOP CHEFS LINE UP FOR SOLDIERS’ BANQUET June 23, 2011 DO TOO many cooks spoil the broth? Not in the case of the second Square Mile Salute City banquet in aid of wounded soldiers, backed by media partner City A.M., when 12 of the world’s most acclaimed chefs will join forces to cook a gourmet menu at Guildhall. Following the success of last year’s fundraising [...]
TOP CHEFS LINE UP FOR SOLDIERS’ BANQUET June 23, 2011 DO TOO many cooks spoil the broth? Not in the case of the second Square Mile Salute City banquet in aid of wounded soldiers, backed by media partner City A.M., when 12 of the world’s most acclaimed chefs will join forces to cook a gourmet menu at Guildhall. Following the success of last year’s fundraising [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK July 17, 2011 STAYING in is the new going out for one investment bank, which entertained clients over a lunch for eight in its boardroom, organised by Sissi Fabulous Food (founders Gregory and Sissi Schaad-Jackson pictured above). The bank brought in two chefs and a butler to prepare and serve the three-course lunch, spending over £500 on sterling [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK July 17, 2011 STAYING in is the new going out for one investment bank, which entertained clients over a lunch for eight in its boardroom, organised by Sissi Fabulous Food (founders Gregory and Sissi Schaad-Jackson pictured above). The bank brought in two chefs and a butler to prepare and serve the three-course lunch, spending over £500 on sterling [...]