Stuart Rose cheers One New Change October 28, 2010 CITY shopping centre One New Change attracted thousands of workers from across the Square Mile when it opened for trading yesterday. Outgoing Marks & Spencer chairman Sir Stuart Rose officially opened the mall, which is home to 60 shops and restaurants on Cheapside opposite St Paul’s Cathedral. Topshop owner Sir Philip Green and representatives of [...]
Walkie Talkie work restarts after JV deal October 19, 2010 PROPERTY firms Land Securities and Canary Wharf Group (CWG) will team up to build the £500m Walkie Talkie project on 20 Fenchurch Street, the pair announced yesterday. Land Securities has sold the site to a newly-formed 50-50 joint venture with CWG for £90.2m, in line with the March 2010 valuation. Preparatory work on the cleared [...]
Investing in property in the UK Silicon Valley November 11, 2010 HAVE you ever looked at Canary Wharf’s riverside properties and wished you had bought one when Thatcher first hatched her plan to turn it into a business hub? Back when nobody realised how lucrative it would become? Well David Cameron’s call for a British Silicon Valley stretching from Shoreditch to the Olympic Park could be [...]
Afternoon tea by Bea is for City folk in the know October 27, 2010 B EA Vo is an excited lady. And well she might be, because this week sees the launch of the second branch of Bea’s of Bloomsbury, the cake shop that has become one of the worst-kept secrets in foodie London. Although the new branch will be located in the biggest new shopping centre in the [...]
THE MEN GOING PAUNCH TO PAUNCH IN 2010 FAT BANKERS COMPETITION December 16, 2010 WITH another eight days to go before the turkey is even dished out, some of us may have already had our share of mince pies and bucks fizz. But not everyone has been so indulgent. Two bankers in particular have successfully resisted the temptations of the festive season and are on track to shed almost [...]
THE MEN GOING PAUNCH TO PAUNCH IN 2010 FAT BANKERS COMPETITION December 16, 2010 WITH another eight days to go before the turkey is even dished out, some of us may have already had our share of mince pies and bucks fizz. But not everyone has been so indulgent. Two bankers in particular have successfully resisted the temptations of the festive season and are on track to shed almost [...]
Celebrating the best of the City October 28, 2010 Mayor of London Boris Johnson snapped up the most prestigious gong at CityA.M.’s inaugural awards ceremony last night. A panel of judges, made up of some of the most influential members of the Square Mile’s financial community, voted unanimously for Johnson to be personality of the year, saying that he was a “wild personality” and [...]
A tip for regulators: no risk means no gain November 7, 2010 This time last year, in my first column for City A.M., I cautioned that efforts to restore public confidence in parts of the financial services industry would be a marathon, not a sprint. Now that I approach the finish line marking the end of my tenure as Lord Mayor, I am glad to see the [...]
A tip for regulators: no risk means no gain November 7, 2010 This time last year, in my first column for City A.M., I cautioned that efforts to restore public confidence in parts of the financial services industry would be a marathon, not a sprint. Now that I approach the finish line marking the end of my tenure as Lord Mayor, I am glad to see the [...]
REWRITING THE RULE BOOK FOR CITY LIFE November 10, 2010 RULES, rules, rules – it’s probably fair to say the financial services industry is getting a little sick of them by now, after being hit by a hammer blow of regulatory changes in the wake of the crisis. But that hasn’t deterred Canon David Parrott, guild vicar of the St Lawrence Jewry church on the [...]