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  • City’s small businesses are crying out for help
    Friday 15th October 2010, 1:17am GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    IT IS a known fact that when recession strikes there is a lag between companies beginning to feel the pain and actually getting into real difficulties. This time around it is no different and, with... [Read more]
  • LSE’s Indian adventure gives hope for future
    Wednesday 28th July 2010, 11:57pm GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    Stock exchanges continue to be a hot topic for debate both in the City and the wider global markets. Global equity issuance may be at its lowest point since 2005, with just $309bn (£198.2bn) raised... [Read more]
  • Motivation is more than a bulging pay packet
    Wednesday 21st July 2010, 11:54pm GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    MORALE among employees is reported to be at an all time low in Britain as we drag ourselves out of one of the worst recessions on record. Job cuts, lack of pay rises and bonuses and the snail’s pace... [Read more]
  • Class of 2010 will find rewarding City career
    Thursday 15th July 2010, 12:08am GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    AS the latest crop of graduates takes the first tentative steps into the world of work this summer, thousands of college and university-leavers who are desperate for a job will look towards the City... [Read more]
  • London’s bonus culture is already overhauled
    Thursday 8th July 2010, 12:20am GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    EVEN before yesterday’s vote by European Union lawmakers to restrict bankers’ bonuses, City institutions had been working to address regulatory concerns about the role of the bonus culture in the... [Read more]
  • Corporate events are valuable if chosen well
    Thursday 1st July 2010, 12:24am GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    DURING these dark times of austerity and bank bashing, those halcyon days of lavish corporate hospitality have come to seem like a long time ago. It has been noticeable watching the Word Cup in South... [Read more]
  • New forms of finance will drive UK’s growth
    Wednesday 23rd June 2010, 11:36pm GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    THE need to restructure corporate debt and find new sources of financing is germinating a new breed of so-called “equity solutions” that, it could be argued, will be absolutely vital to the UK in the... [Read more]
  • Get ready for a flood of debt restructurings
    Thursday 10th June 2010, 12:19am GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    WITH continued volatility in world markets expected to continue for at least the next two years, many companies are going to find it necessary to restructure their borrowings as debts reach maturity... [Read more]
  • Mezzanine funds in vogue during debt drought
    Thursday 3rd June 2010, 1:52am GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    MIDDLE-market companies are facing a refinancing gap unprecedented in modern times as they struggle to raise much-needed capital for expansion. With banks currently unwilling to lend following the... [Read more]
  • For corporate advisers, small can be beautiful
    Wednesday 26th May 2010, 11:53pm GMT
    CITY COMMENT
    BEN GRIFFITHS
    BEING a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) banker in one of the bulge bracket banks used to be a fast-track way to find yourself labelled one of the elite Masters of the Universe. But these days it... [Read more]
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