City Moves for 11 July 2016 | Who’s switching jobs July 11, 2016 K&L Gates The London office of global law firm K&L Gates has added Mayank Gupta as a partner in the firm’s global finance practice. He joins K&L Gates from Mayer Brown in London. With experience spanning leveraged finance, corporate finance, sovereign lending, and emerging markets, Mayank acts for both institutional lenders and multinational borrowers on transactions across a [...]
Picking up the Slack: CMO Bill Macaitis on why word-of-mouth is central to the unicorn’s success June 6, 2016 "We're selling organisational transformation," says Bill Macaitis, chief marketing officer of Slack – Silicon Valley darling and contender for the fastest growing B2B software-as-a-service company in history. Slack is more than a workplace messenger. It is a communication and collaboration tool which facilitates meetings, provides access to shared documents, and breaks down silos between apps by integrating Twitter, [...]
Most GPs disagree with the chief medical officer and believe alcohol can be part of a healthy lifestyle May 24, 2016 Most GPs disagree with the comments made by the UK's chief medical officer (CMO) in January that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, new research shows. The poll, conducted by medeConnect for the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), found 60 per cent of GPs surveyed disagreed with the guidance from CMO Sally Davies, which [...]
EU referendum: Asda, HSBC, Vodafone and nearly 200 sign letter saying Brexit would threaten jobs – but Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s are not on the list February 23, 2016 The bosses of HSBC, BT, Vodafone and Asda are among those to have put their name to an open letter backing the remain camp and Prime Minister David Cameron's reforms in Europe. More than a third of the UK's biggest companies were represented in the letter, which was published in The Times this morning, saying they represented [...]
Twitter to lose three execs as media chief, product VP and engineering head stand down January 24, 2016 Three Twitter executives will be stepping down tomorrow, at a turbulent time in the social media company's fortunes. Media head Katie Jacobs Stanton, product VP Kevin Weil and engineering head Alex Roetter are all departing the company, according to technology news website Re/code, citing sources. Neither Stanton nor Weil has secured a new job yet [...]
Recommended alcohol unit intake reduced: The effect of wine or beer on health is more complicated than the chief medical officer would have us believe January 8, 2016 I have been predicting for years that the day will come when the recommended drinking level falls to zero. Today’s lowering of the weekly limit for men to a miserly 14 units (seven pints of beer) brings that day a little closer. It is clear from reading the chief medical officer Sally Davies’ report that she believes that teetotallism [...]
The UBS rebrand: CMO Johan Jervoe talks art and Annie Leibovitz September 6, 2015 Following the financial crisis, banks have struggled to clean up their public image. But last week, the Swiss banking giant UBS began a global brand relaunch, its first since 2009. The campaign will be 70 per cent digital, and feature photographs by American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, as well as a 90 second [...]
Exclusive: Virgin Money IPO gets thumbs-up from investors as “big four” banks are slated by CMA November 6, 2014 Bankers working on the flotation of Virgin Money are likely to exercise their "greenshoe" option when it launches its initial public offering (IPO) later this month, City A.M. understands. A source close to the deal said such has been the enthusiasm from investors for shares in the bank, it will sell an extra tranche of [...]
Gary Player tees off as open-handed Brits prove a hit for Berenberg Bank’s charity efforts July 22, 2014 Germans may have put the English in the shade with their sporting success this year at the World Cup, but it seems there’s one pursuit we are better at: coughing up. So when Berenberg Bank wanted to ensure their sponsorship of an invitational pro-am golf tournament hosted by evergreen great Gary Player raised as much [...]
Sharp style comes home to the City June 29, 2011 THE City’s menfolk have been through various versions of the traditional business uniform, each a reflection of the age in which they were worn. The pinstriped, bowler-hatted patrician of old; the jacket-off, red-braces bravado of the ‘80s; the dress-down-Friday scruffs of the ‘90s; the wide-tied, wide-striped wide-boys of the more recent boom. Clichés all, but [...]