Brace yourself, Gordon is in town October 6, 2010 Film MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Cert: 12A GORDON Gekko comes to London. If you enjoyed Oliver Stone’s original film, do you really need any other inducement to see Wall Street’s sequel, Money Never Sleeps? For a few brief scenes the financial world’s debonair Mephistopheles can be seen, trademark devil-may-care smirk and all, getting shaved in Trumper’s, [...]
UK consumers are at their most confident in two years January 28, 2010 CONSUMERS are at their most confident in almost two years despite Britain’s flagging growth prospects, according to a leading index published today. The GfK/NOP consumer confidence index rose two points to -17, which is 20 points higher than it was this time last year. Consumers are also feeling happier about the economic situation over the [...]
SPREADBETTING BOSS IN A PRODIGIOUS MOVE September 14, 2010 IF THERE’S been a whiff of celebrity recently about the walk of Simon Denham, the ebullient head of spreadbetter Capital Spreads, The Capitalist knows why. For the past year or so, Denham has been in the process of buying his new house – a sprawling country pile in Great Dunmow, Essex – from none other [...]
SPREADBETTING BOSS IN A PRODIGIOUS MOVE September 14, 2010 IF THERE’S been a whiff of celebrity recently about the walk of Simon Denham, the ebullient head of spreadbetter Capital Spreads, The Capitalist knows why. For the past year or so, Denham has been in the process of buying his new house – a sprawling country pile in Great Dunmow, Essex – from none other [...]
EU Commission warns governments should consider hiking the pension age July 7, 2010 COUNTRIES in the European Union may have to increase the retirement age to prevent a collapse of their social security systems as life expectancy increases and birth rates fall, the EU executive said yesterday. Launching a debate on overhauling pension rules, the European Commission said pension systems would come under severe stress in coming decades. [...]
THE CITY’S GOT TALENT: OUR TOP TEN LOVELIEST LADIES August 12, 2010 1 GEORGIA RAIMES WORLD FIRST Last year’s winner, the gorgeous Sarah Davison of RBS Sempra, was always going to be a tough act to follow, but the City has found an eminently worthy successor in the form of brunette bombshell Georgia Raimes. The lovely Georgia is a forex dealer on the private client desk at [...]
DIVORCING COUPLES FACE DAWN RAIDS August 10, 2010 MISCHON DE REYA IN 177 carefully crafted paragraphs the Court of Appeal has rewritten the rules of engagement in matrimonial finance cases. Previously, spouses seeking divorce were permitted a certain amount of leeway when gathering financial information. Put simply, the courts turned a blind eye to one spouse helping themselves to financial information by rummaging [...]
The public’s priorities are mixed up March 7, 2010 THERE was a rather interesting set of findings in this weekend’s BPIX poll for the Mail on Sunday. When presented with options about what would make people more likely to vote for a political party, 45 per cent said a harsher approach to crime, with the same number backing a tougher immigration policy – no [...]
Fresh cull at Lloyds hits 585 January 21, 2010 Lloyds Banking Group is to cut another 585 jobs by March next year as part of changes to its wholesale and retail divisions. The bank – which unions say cut more than 15,500 jobs in 2009 as it tried to reduce costs following its merger with HBOS in 2008 – yesterday said 455 jobs would [...]
Aldermore to deliver profit June 28, 2010 ALDERMORE, Britain’s first private equity-backed bank, expects to turn a profit this year, less than 18 months after it began lending to small businesses and entrepreneurs. The institution, which is owned by buyout house AnaCap and investment bank Morgan Stanley, is eyeing a small gain after its commercial mortgages, asset finance and invoice finance arms [...]