Rejuvenated Aston Villa ready to inflict more pain on the Baggies March 5, 2015 It was difficult to find a superlative on Tuesday evening which was a fair reflection on what Christian Benteke’s injury time penalty meant to all associated with Aston Villa. Newly appointed Tim Sherwood saw his side collect three points against a West Brom outfit who had lost just one of their last eight prior to [...]
Maximum excitement on the FA Cup March 5, 2015 MANCHESTER United take on Arsenal on Monday night and it’s a match that will lead to a shake-up on Sporting Index’s FA Cup Outright Index. The index rewards teams in the FA Cup points according to how far they get in the competition with the winners getting 100 and the runners-up 75. Losing the semi-final [...]
The Datables: Watches with calendar displays can be things of beauty March 5, 2015 There are few things that niggle at me more than the presence of an unnecessary date display on a watch (yes, yes, first world problems). Brands are, in the large part, hopelessly addicted to them, allowing tiny, pointless displays to disrupt the unity and balance of their designs. I especially can’t abide the now-canonical magnifying [...]
Watch talk: A new generation of women’s watches is blazing a trail of originality March 5, 2015 Every January specially invited watch journalists decamp to Geneva’s Palexpo – a great, industrial box next to a motorway – to be shown watches that cost more than many of their flats in an unrelentingly beige luxury bubble. This is SIHH, where Richemont’s brands (and a few select “friends”) assemble to set out their stall [...]
Former Virgin Media exec Eamonn O’Hare plots telecoms raid March 4, 2015 The man who engineered Virgin Media’s $24bn (£15bn) blockbuster sale to Liberty Global has unveiled ambitious plans to take advantage of frenzied deal activity in Europe’s telecoms market. Ex-Virgin Media finance boss Eamonn O’Hare’s dramatic comeback, revealed last night, will involve raising cash in London to snap up struggling telecoms assets across the continent. [...]
The mystery of the police raid at Heron Tower March 4, 2015 The mystery over Tuesday’s police raid at the Heron Tower deepened yesterday, with little more than a single tweet making public reference to the incident. The City of London fraud squad conducted the raid, with 13 people arrested on Tuesday afternoon and later released on bail. Witnesses in the building – also known as [...]
Banks to be stopped from paying fixed allowances March 4, 2015 THE FIXED allowances which some banks used to get around the EU’s bonus cap are set to be banned under proposals published yesterday. Britain’s government failed in its bid to get the bonus cap scrapped, and now the banks’ own efforts to continue paying have also failed. The cap limits bankers’ bonuses to the same [...]
London luxury fashion company Farfetch valued at $1bn as it raises $86m March 4, 2015 Online luxury fashion company Farfetch has been valued at $1bn (£656m) after completing a round of investment led by software company DST Global. The firm raised $86m, with existing shareholders Conde Nast International and Vitruvian Partners also participating, taking the total amount raised by the company at over $195m. London-based Farfetch was established in 2008, [...]
Euro slumps to an 11-year low against dollar March 4, 2015 THE EURO dropped to an 11-year low against the dollar yesterday with European officials today set to release further details of a major bond buying programme. At one point yesterday the euro was down nearly one per cent against the dollar at $1.1066. The European Central Bank (ECB) has vowed to buy at least €1.1 [...]
Serious Fraud Office to probe Bank of England’s liquidity auction March 4, 2015 The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating Bank of England liquidity auctions held during the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008. The central bank confirmed last night that it had handed over the findings of an independent inquiry conducted by Lord Grabiner QC into whether any bank officials knew of, or took part in, attempts [...]
