08 Dec 2005
| by Adam Hill
in Vodafone fell ten per cent, shearing almost £10bn off the firm's value. Trust the banks? While only one ...
the Financial Services Research Forum (FSRF) pilots its Trust Index, which ranks consumer trust in banks ...
01 Dec 2005
| by Thomas Williams
across the bank’s corporate landscape that require his full attention....Not satisfied with its status as the UK's third-largest bank, Barclays moved one step closer ...
it acquired South African bank Absa for £2.6bn. But Barclays – which as well as the eponymous high-street bank comprises Barclaycard, investment banking arm Barclays Capital and asset management group Barclays ...
24 Nov 2005
| by Richard Carpenter
over the year included the Yellow Brick Road Group's sale to Macquarie Bank, and construction firm RMC ...
18 Nov 2005
| by Mary Cowlett
Manchester Pride, the annual ten-day lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) festival, culminates in The Big Weekend, a 72-hour celebration held over the August bank holiday. Working with community partnership Operation Fundraiser, the event aims to raise money for LGBT and HIV charities ...
17 Nov 2005
| by David Quainton
. 'It wasn't the business itself, but watching bank managers lose cheques...' Rosehip's first cheque, from designer Bruce Oldfield, was misplaced by the agency's bank. But the 39-year-old self ...
03 Nov 2005
| by Richard Carpenter
is needed (see box, p28). Written with the backing of partners such as the Co-op Bank, Gap and Novo Nordisk ...
27 Oct 2005
| by Steve Hemsley
's not just big high-street names,' sighs The Sun business editor Ian King. 'The investment banks can also ...
20 Oct 2005
| by Steve Smethurst
Philip Hunt says the fact that many high-street banks were languishing in the bottom 20 of the CSR table ...
in the bottom ten (J Sainsbury bucked the trend by coming top for its media centre). 'Banks and retailers ...
-placed (for media) Lloyds TSB, defends the bank's site, which does not have a media link on its home page ...
20 Oct 2005
| by Dan Bloch
-Jones, the other end of the scale belongs to UK banks. 'Too often they appear defensive and are slow in responding ...
in the banking world, they try and put up the British Banking Association.' So what would the panel like to see ...
23 Sep 2005
| by Alex Black
the country's cultural heritage could be viewed free of charge. Cole, 47, has now joined the South Bank ...
Bush is doing on the South Bank,' she jokes. Two weeks into her job at the SBC, she knows the magnitude of the task it has undertaken. 'The South Bank is the great cultural quarter of London ...