City Moves for 26 November – Who’s switching jobs at Circadian Trust, London Square and Loopme? November 26, 2018 Who's moving where in the City this week? Circadian Trust Charitable organisation Circadian Trust, which manages several community and lifestyle centres in the UK, has appointed Phil Boobier as chair of its trustee board. Phil has been an independent director at Circadian and chair of its commercial trading arm Sphere Leisure since 2013. He takes [...]
Public speaking 101: Stick to what you know November 23, 2018 "The problem with your method”, the head of organisational behaviour of a tier-one investment bank tells me, “is that our bankers are often asked to speak about subjects that they know little about. Can you help them with that?” My client was referring to the main premise of my presentation training: that in a presentation, [...]
City Moves for 23 November – who’s switching jobs at Sthree, Saxo Bank and Savills? November 23, 2018 Who’s on the move? SThree SThree, the international STEM specialist staffing business, is pleased to announce that Denise Collis has been appointed in the newly-formed role of employee representative non-executive director, with effect from 1 December 2018. This appointment is an early adoption of recently announced changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code, due to [...]
Fresh funding for regtech startup Steeleye led by venture capital firm brings total raised to £5.7m November 22, 2018 Compliance technology startup Steeleye has announced the completion of a £5.7m seed fundraising led by venture capital firm Illuminate Financial. A £2.9m fundraising extension by Illuminate rounded off the money which will help the firm launched in October last year expand its products in the regulatory tech space. Clients employ Steeleye to comply with a [...]
Brexit: UK economic outlook hinges on May selling deal November 22, 2018 | City Talk The deal is largely as we expected – but this is only the end of the beginning. UK’s negotiating power has been overestimated by many; the EU has dictated the terms of Brexit from the beginning. We believe that the risk of a no-deal Brexit will focus minds and lead to cross-party support for May’s [...]
Crowdfunding isn’t just about money, but communicating with customers – the best businesses are the best listeners November 22, 2018 Consumers are increasingly sceptical of industry leaders, disloyal to brands, well-researched in the products and services they need, and not willing to be talked at. Through social media, they listen to one another about which brands are worth caring about, and which are not. The brands that are the best communicators are also the best [...]
Gender diversity is starting to drive asset managers’ voting decisions November 22, 2018 More than half of asset managers actively engage with UK companies over gender diversity as boardroom equality begins to drive voting decisions Four in 10 asset managers said they had made a voting decision based on the gender diversity of the company, the Investment Association said, as it revealed that 80 per cent of survey [...]
CMC Markets profits dive 76 per cent on regulatory changes November 22, 2018 Spread betting platform CMC Markets reported a 76 per cent dive in profits this morning, causing shares to fall more than six per cent. The forex trader’s poor performance was driven by a deterioration in market volatility and range bound markets, worsened by the introduction of new retail trading regulatory changes in August, it said [...]
Deal or no deal, fintech will remain the jewel in the UK’s economic crown November 22, 2018 In some ways, the causes of both globalisation and the fintech boom have much in common. Both phenomena have been driven by previously unthought-of technological advances, innovation, and increasingly open markets. So if, as has been argued, the UK referendum was the first case of a major democracy voting against the impact of globalisation, does [...]
How Brexit could help mortgage prisoners break free November 22, 2018 In the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, lenders were dishing out large mortgages and asking for tiny deposits in return. Property values were rapidly outpacing wage growth, and buyers were being allowed to borrow eight times their annual salary. For many homeowners, the problems started after the crash when the regulators forced [...]
