City Moves for 09 March 2015 | Who’s switching jobs March 9, 2015 FTI Consulting The business advisory firm has appointed Mark Hunt as senior managing director in its forensic & litigation consulting practice. He joins from BDO, where he led its financial services practice. Hunt has also previously worked as a partner at KPMG. Berwin Leighton Paisner The law firm has announced five partner promotions. In its [...]
There is market failure at the heart of the City: The lack of superfast broadband July 27, 2014 Information technology has revolutionised the way that business is done in the City over recent decades. Cross border transactions are now completed with a click of a button. New models of finance such as crowdfunding are increasingly popular. Smartphones and cloud computing are making remote working a reality. These developments are reshaping the way that [...]
Accor executive checks himself in to Easyhotel April 14, 2015 EASYHOTEL has booked itself a new chief financial officer after hiring Marc Vieilledent from Europe’s largest hotel group, Accor. Vieilledent, who was executive vice president of asset management at the French hotelier until 2013, will join easyHotel on 5 May. He replaces Darren Mee, who left on 29 January just six months after the budget [...]
City Moves for 20 April 2015 | Who’s switching jobs April 19, 2015 Colliers International Mark Phillips has been appointed director within the commercial real estate firm’s hotel and resorts consulting team. He has 25 years’ experience in the sector, and was previously a director at HLT Consulting. Phillips has also held roles at Horwath UK and Horwath & Horwath. JP Morgan Asset Management Gilles Drukier has been [...]
City Moves for 16 March 2015 | Who’s switching jobs March 16, 2015 Axa Assistance UK The assistance services firm has announced the appointment of Anthony Bradley as chief financial officer. He joined Axa Assistance UK in 2002, and has served as underwriting analyst, senior finance analyst, financial controller, and most recently as deputy chief financial officer. Covington & Burling The law firm has announced the appointment of [...]
Helge Lund: The £28m BG Group man who missed his big day out in London April 8, 2015 Oil giant Shell and its takeover target BG Group sent their top executives into the City yesterday to face questions over the proposed £47bn deal, a transaction that would create the largest company on the FTSE. However, one man was notable by his absence – BG’s chief executive Helge Lund, who was deemed so valuable [...]
Adultery site Ashley Madison faces tough test wooing London bankers for its flotation plans April 16, 2015 It may boast sales of £77m, 36m members globally and a 45 per cent annual growth rate, but cheating spouses website Ashley Madison faces a tougher test to float in London than it expects. The saucy Toronto-based group, which allows married people to link up online for affairs, is weighing plans to raise $200m, but [...]
Chelsea kick Heron Tower police raid firm into touch March 25, 2015 CHELSEA Football Club has ripped up its partnership agreement with a firm that was raided by the police’s fraud squad earlier this month, City A.M. understands. CWM FX became the Premier League club’s official online forex trading partner at the start of the year, as part of a sequence of glamorous marketing deals directed at [...]
London cab firm Addison Lee embarks on global expansion with New York launch March 3, 2015 London cab firm Addison Lee is expanding its services to the hotly contested taxi battleground of New York. The expansion, its first outside London, will give the firm access to the second biggest cab market in the world after London's, which is worth an estimated £2.2bn. The private equity-owned firm said the expansion was spurred [...]
City Moves for 14 April 2015 | Who’s switching jobs April 13, 2015 SunLife The financial services firm has appointed Emma Walker to lead its aggregator, digital, and customer experience teams. She joins from MoneySupermarket.com, where she was head of protection and non core insurance. LCH.Clearnet Steve Briscoe has been appointed group head of technology and operations at the clearing house. He joins from RBS, where he was [...]