CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 13, 2009 RothschildThe bank has hired Penny Lovell as client director in its private banking and trust business. Lovell joins from Fleming Family & Partners, where she spent eight years in a variety of senior client relationship roles, most recently as group head of business development. Prior to that, she spent five years at Coutts & Co, [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 13, 2009 RothschildThe bank has hired Penny Lovell as client director in its private banking and trust business. Lovell joins from Fleming Family & Partners, where she spent eight years in a variety of senior client relationship roles, most recently as group head of business development. Prior to that, she spent five years at Coutts & Co, [...]
RBS Coutts to ramp up hires after exodus October 13, 2009 RBS COUTTS may look to speed up its hiring plans in Asia after 70 staff staged a co-ordinated mass exodus from the private bank. The group of staff at the Singapore office of Royal Bank of Scotland’s private bank left simultaneously and many are now expected to join Swiss rival BSI. The departures come just [...]
RBS to sell asset manager arm August 17, 2009 ROYAL Bank of Scotland is preparing to put its asset management business up for sale, including assets that are accessible to clients of Coutts, the private bank that is best known as an advisor to the Queen. A sale of RBS asset management, which creates hedge funds and private equity funds-of-funds using third-party managers, could [...]
BANKS HIDE BEHIND DISGUISE AT GLORIOUS GOODWOOD WASH-OUT July 30, 2009 A RIGHT royal washout yesterday at the third day of Glorious Goodwood, one of the City’s favourite sporting events (read: an extravagant booze-up in posh suits and frocks). The rain came down hard on several occasions, sending those who had arrived for the annual Ladies Day scuttling for cover under their hats – and huddling [...]
BANKS HIDE BEHIND DISGUISE AT GLORIOUS GOODWOOD WASH-OUT July 30, 2009 A RIGHT royal washout yesterday at the third day of Glorious Goodwood, one of the City’s favourite sporting events (read: an extravagant booze-up in posh suits and frocks). The rain came down hard on several occasions, sending those who had arrived for the annual Ladies Day scuttling for cover under their hats – and huddling [...]
the INSIDER July 30, 2009 DRUMFIRE will be running at Glorious Goodwood twice in a week if he turns up for today’s Coutts Glorious Stakes at 2.10pm. Based on his demolition of a competitive field on Tuesday, he could well hit the net again, but I’m going to side with Breeder’s Cup Marathon winner MUHANNAK who is out to prove [...]
the INSIDER July 30, 2009 DRUMFIRE will be running at Glorious Goodwood twice in a week if he turns up for today’s Coutts Glorious Stakes at 2.10pm. Based on his demolition of a competitive field on Tuesday, he could well hit the net again, but I’m going to side with Breeder’s Cup Marathon winner MUHANNAK who is out to prove [...]
Sir Keith Mills intensifies his bitter battle with Coutts June 30, 2009 SIR Keith Mills, the founder of the Air Miles and Nectar loyalty programmes, is today launching an advertising campaign alleging Coutts gave him faulty advice to deposit £65m of his savings in an AIG fund. AIG later ran into severe trouble, forcing the US government to bail it out. On 15 September AIG suspended the [...]
REVEALED: THE LOVELIEST CITY LADIES June 29, 2009 1. SARAH DAVISONRBS SEMPRA METALSIt’s finally official – the gorgeous Miss Davison, who has graced the pages of City A.M. several times since her initial appearance on the front cover last year, is the loveliest lady the business world has to offer. Sarah has worked as a metals trader for RBS Sempra Metals for around [...]