the way in the financial sector was LCH Clearnet, unknown to most people outside the City and poorly ...
It is a mantra of business that to achieve efficiency you need to simplify, standardise and automate. Complexity and variety require a high quality of employee - someone who has the knowledge and experience to apply judgement and initiative, whereas once things are standardised you can get by with lower-quality...
A few days ago I gave a lunchtime speech to around 100 PR executives from City firms and financial...Time was, not long ago, when no self-respecting PRO would leave a lunch table before 3pm - they would surely have had another drink, talked with colleagues, caught up with the gossip and exchanged views on the topics of the day. There are a few City PROs still like that, but most seem to lack ...
explaining to the City how much opportunity it has through ownership of Westinghouse, a major designer ... to find the billions needed to build the plants. The bigger challenge lies in persuading the City and its ...
Citigroup and Terra Firma over the acquisition of EMI. The court found in favour of Citi financier David
Hudson Sandler has appointed Kirsty Leighton as MD, reporting to CEO Andrew Hayes. Most recently, Leighton was MD of Text 100 in the UK and also worked as global head of client development at Waggener Edstrom.
Apart from those shareholders who depart with a fat profit, no one has had a good word to say about his bid. The fans are incensed, the board has done all it can to block it, and even the City is sceptical. The price, they say, is too high - and the amount of debt that Glazer is piling into the club ...
Although it in no way detracts from the horror of the events, the chances of being caught up in a terrorist attack are so tiny as to be impossible to measure. You are many times more likely to fall under a bus than be blown up on one.
The Financial Services Authority has told the stockbroking firms it regulates that they must have a documented policy on rumours. My informant did not tell me the details - only that the compliance manual must be updated to include the policy. Given that the most commonly used expression in the financial...
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