Protesters on the brink as legal bid fails February 22, 2012 PROTESTERS from Occupy London appear set for an angry confrontation with bailiffs after they lost a last-ditch legal bid to preserve their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral. Yesterday three judges dismissed the activists’ applications for the right to appeal against an earlier eviction order, paving the way for the City of London Corporation to clear [...]
Four challenging years guiding the City through its tumult and turmoil April 29, 2012 WHEN I assumed the position of chairman of policy and resources at the City of London Corporation in 2008, I knew that there would be difficulties. But very few people could have anticipated the scale of the challenges that lay ahead. Over the last four years there have been sequences of events that have defined [...]
Fraser: Morgan Review will undermine England Test side January 22, 2012 ENGLAND’S world-beating Test team will suffer if radical plans to reform the county game are passed by governing body the ECB, fears Middlesex chief Angus Fraser. The headline recommendation from the Morgan Review, which the ECB will discuss today, is a reduction in the number of matches in the County Championship, while keeping a two-division [...]
GDF in £6bn swoop for International Power March 29, 2012 French utility GDF Suez offered £6bn ($9.5bn) for the 30 per cent of British electricity producer International Power (IPR.L) it does not already own, seeking to integrate the two companies more closely. The announcement came as German utilities E.ON and RWE said they would no longer build new nuclear power stations in Britain, raising doubts [...]
BoA Merrill’s Meissner has a huge mountain to climb April 2, 2012 lNVESTMENT bankers rarely have a good word to say about any of their rivals, so it is quite striking when one of their number elicits mainly positive responses. That is quite noticeably true of Christian Meissner, who earlier this year was named as head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investment banking operations. Meissner’s immediate [...]
BoA Merrill’s Meissner has a huge mountain to climb April 2, 2012 lNVESTMENT bankers rarely have a good word to say about any of their rivals, so it is quite striking when one of their number elicits mainly positive responses. That is quite noticeably true of Christian Meissner, who earlier this year was named as head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investment banking operations. Meissner’s immediate [...]
Spot-fixing still going undetected, fears Fraser January 17, 2012 EXCLUSIVE: Former England bowler believes landmark Westfield case was no one-off and other domestic players may have been targeted FORMER England bowler Angus Fraser believes spot-fixing has infested the domestic game beyond the case which has left former Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield facing prison. Westfield – the first English cricketer to be convicted of spot-fixing [...]
Spot-fixing still going undetected, fears Fraser January 17, 2012 EXCLUSIVE: Former England bowler believes landmark Westfield case was no one-off and other domestic players may have been targeted FORMER England bowler Angus Fraser believes spot-fixing has infested the domestic game beyond the case which has left former Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield facing prison. Westfield – the first English cricketer to be convicted of spot-fixing [...]
Protesters face eviction after High Court defeat January 18, 2012 THE CITY of London last night called on protesters to leave the area around St Paul’s after it won a High Court battle against the group. Stuart Fraser, the City’s policy chairman, said the “public generally is losing out” from the presence of up to 200 tents outside the Cathedral. He spoke out after Mr [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 6, 2012 Deloitte Mark Williams has been appointed as a partner in Deloitte’s economic consulting practice. Williams, who joins Deloitte from the World Bank, will join a team of more than 30 in Deloitte’s economic consulting practice, where he will focus on telecoms clients. He worked at the World Bank for five years, where he led the [...]