LLOYD’S of London is moving offshore, as The Capitalist hears the insurance group has entered a team in one of the world’s most competitive yacht races – a two-day zigzag around 11 Caribbean islands that is a magnet for seafaring captains of...
The Capitalist
Thursday 9th February 2012, 1:27am
CHANGE IS afoot for one of the UK’s most traditional sporting fixtures, after Bank of New York Mellon yesterday stepped in to sponsor The Boat Race.
For the first time from 2015, the women’s event, whose sponsorship by BNY Mellon company...
Wednesday 8th February 2012, 1:42am
PAUL RENNEY, a lawyer at Keystone Law, almost collected the Bafta for The King’s Speech – except the film’s producers were faster out of their seats than he was.
Renney, as the hit’s legal adviser, was a stand-in at the event for...
Tuesday 7th February 2012, 2:08am
MOST SPORTSMEN keep their trophies in cabinets or on the mantelpiece. Golfer Darren Clarke uses his Open Championship silverware to pour wine.
“When I was serving the wine at Christmas from The Claret Jug; I thought ‘this is the life’,”...
Tuesday 7th February 2012, 2:08am
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
Novak Djokovic (right)
Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year
Vivian Cheruiyot
Laureus World
Team of the Year
FC Barcelona
Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year...
Monday 6th February 2012, 4:28am
AS USEFUL as a bank holiday might have been today for those of you valiantly battling to make it to work through the snow, we’re all going to have to wait another few months before the Queen’s official Diamond Jubilee festivities afford the City...
Monday 6th February 2012, 4:26am
A GROUP of six Credit Suisse bankers took themselves to Gaucho for an early lunch last Thursday – and left more than £2,000 poorer after a rather unusual last-minute addition to their bill. After a traditional steak dinner mixing and matching...
Friday 3rd February 2012, 1:58am
LUCAS VAN Praag was well-known for firing cerebral, elegantly worded scorn on anyone who crossed paths with Goldman Sachs. So the PR man’s exit from the bank, as confirmed yesterday, was similarly well-phrased.
“C’est la vie,” emailed...
Thursday 2nd February 2012, 1:26am
EVER WONDERED how former BP and Lehman Brothers spinner Andrew Gowers ended up as a strategic consultant to the Association for Financial Markets in Europe?
The appointment of the one-time FT editor last November was a “seamless transition...
Wednesday 1st February 2012, 1:00am
MITCHELLS & BUTLERS offered him a “senior role” following his resignation as chief executive of hotel group Malmaison last September.
But Robert Cook turned down the chance to help chairman Bob Ivell steer the FTSE 250 pub group into...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
QE not the answer to UK’s problems
IF the Bank of England is to be believed, more quantitative easing is necessary to make sure inflation...
