The boss of the world’s largest law firm has more targets in his sights February 27, 2011 Britain’s most ambitious legal empire-builder bounces into one of his firm’s 11th floor meeting rooms in its modern London headquarters near St Paul’s – Sir Nigel Knowles, who has built DLA Piper from humble beginnings into a global powerhouse, is in the middle of completing another merger. Luckily for us, he is keen to talk. [...]
The boss of the world’s largest law firm has more targets in his sights February 27, 2011 Britain’s most ambitious legal empire-builder bounces into one of his firm’s 11th floor meeting rooms in its modern London headquarters near St Paul’s – Sir Nigel Knowles, who has built DLA Piper from humble beginnings into a global powerhouse, is in the middle of completing another merger. Luckily for us, he is keen to talk. [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 7, 2010 Ruffer The investment management house has appointed Sir David Clementi, pictured, and Robin Hindle Fisher as non-executive directors. Clementi, a former Bank of England deputy governor and chairman of Prudential, will be Ruffer’s new deputy chairman. He is also currently chairman of King’s Cross Central. Fisher has spent over 25 years in institutional fund management [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 7, 2010 Ruffer The investment management house has appointed Sir David Clementi, pictured, and Robin Hindle Fisher as non-executive directors. Clementi, a former Bank of England deputy governor and chairman of Prudential, will be Ruffer’s new deputy chairman. He is also currently chairman of King’s Cross Central. Fisher has spent over 25 years in institutional fund management [...]
US is where it all happens this week October 31, 2010 IT used to be the case that the most important market-moving news for the FTSE 100, sterling and the UK fixed income markets often came from the US. While that remains largely true – London traders become fixated with Wall Street the moment it opens – Chinese statistics have now become almost as important for [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 15, 2010 City Index The spread betting firm has appointed Sandy Jadeja as its new chief technical analyst. Jadeja has 23 years of experience in technical analysis, trading psychology and global financial markets commentary. Prior to joining City Index, he was the chief market strategist at FX-focused trading platform provider Capital Market Services. He has also worked [...]
Vantage hit by £700k fine in FSA probe June 21, 2010 THE Financial Services Authority (FSA) has hit Vantage Capital Markets with a £700,000 fine for allowing a senior figure to operate without the regulator’s approval. Daniel Hassell worked for interdealer broker Vantage for more than four years and had “significant influence” on the company, the FSA found. Vantage was formed as a limited liability partnership [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 9, 2010 KPMG The accountancy firm has appointed Alastair McLeish as UK head of tax and pensions, effective from 1 July. McLeish joined KPMG’s Birmingham office in 1994 and was subsequently appointed in 2003 as head of the pensions advisory group, which he has built up since to encompass over 350 staff and 20 partners. Former UK [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 26, 2010 Otkritie Securities Otkritie, the UK subsidiary of Russian financial services giant Otkritie Financial Corporation, has appointed Howard Snell as chairman. Snell joined the broker last year as an executive director, having previously been UK chief executive of Russian investment bank Troika Dialog. He was also previously co-head of the London emerging markets desk at UBS, [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 26, 2010 Otkritie Securities Otkritie, the UK subsidiary of Russian financial services giant Otkritie Financial Corporation, has appointed Howard Snell as chairman. Snell joined the broker last year as an executive director, having previously been UK chief executive of Russian investment bank Troika Dialog. He was also previously co-head of the London emerging markets desk at UBS, [...]