City Moves for 19 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 18, 2015 EY The professional services firm has appointed partner Gareth James to head up its data and analytics practice within its UK and Ireland assurance business. He joins after 18 years at Deloitte, where he was a UK risk analytics partner since 2011, specialising in and leading on audit and finance analytics. Silicon valley bank The [...]
City Moves for 12 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 11, 2015 Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Michael Bond has been appointed mid markets relationship director in the bank’s technology, media and telecommunications team in London. He previously held a similar role at Lloyds, looking after clients in the education, communities and government sector across the South East. State Street Global Advisors State Street’s asset management arm has [...]
City Moves for 02 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 2, 2015 LINKEDIN John Herlihy has been appointed vice president and managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the professional network. He joins from Google, where he was vice president of SMB sales and head of Google Ireland. Prior to that, Herlihy held leadership positions at tech companies in Europe and the United States. [...]
Facebook and Google could suffer as ECJ says US data transfer agreement does not protect European users September 23, 2015 The European Court of Justice today said that the 'Safe Harbour' regime that allows US companies to transfer European users' personal data does not adequately protect the information. The Safe Harbour agreement, in place since 2000, allows US firms like Google and Facebook to collect data on their European users and store it in the [...]
City Moves for 27 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 26, 2015 LOMBARD ODIER Duncan MacIntyre has been appointed chief executive of the banking firm’s private client business in the UK. He joins from Coutts & Co, where he founded and was global head of its private office. MacIntyre has also worked as a senior private banker at JP Morgan, which he joined from Robert Fleming & [...]
Hey big spender! US firms splash out a record $1.8 trillion on M&A as 2015 marks return of the mega-deal November 3, 2015 US companies have spent a record $1.8 trillion on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) this year as they scramble to offload huge cash piles before an expected increase in interest rates. The figures, from Dealogic, include Visa Inc’s $23.4bn (£15bn) purchase of Visa Europe yesterday, the latest in a frenzy of multi-billion dollar mega deals signed off in [...]
City Moves for 02 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 1, 2015 BAKER & MCKENZIE The law firm has appointed Dyann Heward-Mills as a partner to its data protection and privacy practice in London. The qualified barrister joins from GE Capital, where she was global senior privacy counsel. Prior to joining GE Capital, Heward-Mills spent five years at Linklaters as their senior privacy and communications lawyer. She [...]
Safe Harbour data transfer deal between EU and US ruled invalid by European courts October 6, 2015 A deal between Europe and the US, which allows people's personal online data from sites such as Facebook and Google to be transferred between the two countries, has been ruled invalid by EU courts. The Safe Harbour agreement, introduced 15 years ago, allows thousands of US companies to process the data of EU citizens with [...]
Lord Mayor tours London firms on City Giving Day October 1, 2015 Shoes were shined, ties were straightened, balloons were inflated and cakes were freshly baked for the arrival of Lord Mayor Alan Yarrow at dozens of the Square Mile’s banks and financial institutions to mark City Giving Day, where he saw first-hand what they do to give back to society. Joined by company leaders from [...]
Magic circle firms struggle to keep up with US rivals September 4, 2015 BRITAIN’s elite law firms failed to track the country’s improving economy and reported a combined turnover of £20.64bn, a one per cent drop in earnings from 2014. Figures released by Legal Business magazine today show that the number of lawyers employed by the largest 100 firms in the UK, has also fallen, down two per [...]