How to manage the web of social media April 25, 2012 SOCIAL media has revolutionised the way that companies communicate with their clients, allowing instant responses to customer needs. Whether via embedded instant messenger (IM) help on a customer query site or publicising your latest pension offering, social media can help your business. British retail banks are hardly known for their willingness to embrace change and [...]
Cosmopolis is flawed but compelling June 14, 2012 FILM COSMOPOLIS Cert 15 | By Steve Dinneen **** In the future, nobody will move their face. That is, at least, in David Cronenberg’s dystopian vision, adapted from Don DeLillo’s novel Cosmopolis. Through billionaire finance whiz-kid Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), Cronenberg seems intent on building an American Psycho for the 21st century, with Pattinson essentially [...]
US jobs blow dents markets April 10, 2012 The FTSE 100 tracked losses in Asia this morning as bleak US jobs data took its toll on investor sentiment with miners and banks hit. On Friday the US Labour Department reported that the number of unemployed workers was almost 13m and hiring slowed, raising the alarm over the state of the country’s economic recovery. [...]
US jobs blow dents markets April 10, 2012 The FTSE 100 tracked losses in Asia this morning as bleak US jobs data took its toll on investor sentiment with miners and banks hit. On Friday the US Labour Department reported that the number of unemployed workers was almost 13m and hiring slowed, raising the alarm over the state of the country’s economic recovery. [...]
Austerity vote gets through but ordinary citizens despair February 13, 2012 ATHENIANS spent yesterday inspecting the damage to their city after yet another night of social unrest left its mark on Greece’s capital. City authorities said 150 shops were looted and 93 buildings were wrecked or seriously damaged. Youth unemployment is running at 50 per cent and groups from the provinces have flocked to the capital [...]
Irish Life & Permanent losses widen April 2, 2012 Irish Life & Permanent’s banking arm reported a wider full-year loss due to soaring impairment charges ahead of a split from the group’s life division and a government decision on whether it can remain as a standalone lender. Once lauded as the only Irish lender to avoid a state bailout due to its lack of [...]
Wellington master hires No 10 aide for schools plan March 28, 2012 ANTHONY Seldon, a biographer of Tony Blair, a guru in happiness and the master of the private school Wellington College, is moving full steam ahead in his ambition to establish a network of Academy schools. Wellington has already opened one college, Wellington Academy, with the help of a £2m donation from the ex-Goldman Sachs partner [...]
Wellington master hires No 10 aide for schools plan March 28, 2012 ANTHONY Seldon, a biographer of Tony Blair, a guru in happiness and the master of the private school Wellington College, is moving full steam ahead in his ambition to establish a network of Academy schools. Wellington has already opened one college, Wellington Academy, with the help of a £2m donation from the ex-Goldman Sachs partner [...]
Foreign cash flows to City February 6, 2012 THE UK’S financial services sector is deeply attractive to foreign investors, a study by TheCityUK claimed yesterday. Over a quarter of the 50,000 firms in the sector are owned overseas, rising to 33 per cent for companies valued between £25m and £100m, and 45 per cent for businesses firms worth over £100m. Of that investment, [...]
BALFOUR BEATTY WINS £100M IN DEALS January 16, 2012 BALFOUR Beatty has won construction contracts in the commercial sector worth £100m. In the City of London, the company has secured a £57m contract, to build AXA Real Estate’s Sixty London prime office development (pictured). The company has also won a £25m deal to deliver an 11-storey office building in the City for Viridis Real [...]