Sadiq Khan: Can a Labour mayor make City Hall pro-business? Labour mayoral candidate on what separates him from Jeremy Corbyn September 23, 2015 Sitting in a cafe around the corner from the Labour party’s headquarters in Westminster, Sadiq Khan says that he and the new Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, are not always in agreement. “Ken Livingstone as the Labour mayor often disagreed with the Labour leadership, Boris Johnson as the Conservative mayor often disagreed with the Conservative [...]
Financiers run rings around the capital August 16, 2015 IF THERE is one thing we can take away from this summer, it’s that the City’s bankers and financiers really like running around in circles. Teams from PwC took part in a Pride 10k run in Victoria Park over the weekend, celebrating the new-found diversity in the corporate world. London LGBT running club Frontrunners organised [...]
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 & [...]
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 [...]
Celebrity connection lifts City of London’s sheriff election August 21, 2015 All eyes are on the City of London’s sheriffs, as debate rumbles among the aldermen on who should take up the prestigious title in 2016. This year, the ancient Corporation that unites London’s biggest firms saw two new sheriffs elected by their fellow aldermen and liverymen; PwC senior partner Charles Bowman and long-standing livery member [...]
Jinping Kerching: David Cameron and Chinese President expected to announce several deals October 19, 2015 Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese President Xi Jinping are hailing a “golden era” of Sino-British relations on the eve of Jingping’s four-day state visit to the UK, as investors await confirmation of billions of pounds worth of trade and investment deals. Among the expected announcements is a multibillion pound deal to build the controversial new nuclear [...]
London won’t dominate forever: These are the top five international finance centres of the future September 4, 2015 London won't dominate forever: These are the top five international finance centres of the future Every market's success depends on financial stability, infrastructure development, taxation and economic strength. At the moment, western cities such as New York and London dominate as international financial centres, but increasingly hotspots are emerging in the developing world and [...]
City Moves for 14 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 13, 2015 EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD ASSET MANAGEMENT Agnès Belaisch has been appointed head of the sovereign debt team at the asset management firm. Based in the UK, she was previously in charge of economic and market analysis at the European Stability Mechanism, and has held roles at the IMF. ANV HOLDINGS The insurance group has appointed Janet [...]
City Moves for 9 September 2015 | Who’s switching jobs September 8, 2015 Colliers International The commercial real estate services provider has appointed Charles Cowley as head of London offices lease advisory. He joins from Savills, where he was director of lease advisory. Cowley has 25 years’ experience in the industry, and also previously headed the landlord and tenant team in CBRE’s West End office. Northern Trust Douglas [...]
City Moves for 16 September 2015 | Who’s switching jobs September 15, 2015 BARCLAYS Ian Gilmartin has been appointed head of retail and wholesale for Barclays’s corporate bank. He has over 20 years’ experience and has spent the past five years as part of the leadership in Barclays’ retail and wholesale team. Gilmartin has also held roles at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Allied Irish Banks. DELOITTE The business [...]