City Dogs come out on top of Rugby Sevens pack again July 27, 2014 They’ve only been playing together for two tournaments but City A.M. sponsored Rugby Sevens team City Dogs have made it two out of two, winning Saturday’s FRM Sevens Tournament at Ilford Wanderers, beating Oxfam 21 – 19. Captain Edward Yarnton, who is today enjoying his last day working at BP, said, “Onwards and upwards. We’ll [...]
Standard Chartered’s Peter Sands: The man who fell to earth July 24, 2014 With Standard Chartered under pressure after poor results, the clock is ticking on the reign of chief executive Peter Sands Peter Sands, long-standing chief executive of Standard Chartered, the City’s not-a-banker banker who became the poster boy of weathering the recession, finds himself in a precarious position. The bank, which he has successfully steered through [...]
Eels in the City but thankfully not jellied ones as frontman awarded the Freedom July 24, 2014 It wasn’t too long ago that Eels frontman Mark “E” Everett found himself on the wrong side of London law, after he was mistaken for a terrorist in Hyde Park in 2010 – well yesterday he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London, quite the turnaround. Everett was decorated with the Freedom [...]
Boris Johnson avoids talking tennis by pulling on his sparring gloves July 24, 2014 It looks like the “will he, won’t he” tennis match between Boris Johnson and the Chernukhins (the Russian couple who paid £160,000 at a fundraiser to play BoJo and David Cameron) will go ahead, after Boris said he was going to get in training for it yesterday. Now we think we know how he’s getting [...]
Mark Carney’s marathon metaphor moment: Sports back but it’s just not cricket July 23, 2014 We’ve learnt over the past year, in a similar vein to his predecessor, Mark Carney doesn’t need a sporting event to make a sporting reference in his official orations. But yesterday the Bank of England governor had more reason than any other time – as he spoke in Glasgow at the start of the Commonwealth [...]
City athlete switches from PwC to Team GB at triathlon world championships July 23, 2014 Mark Carney isn’t the only one in the City getting excited about the Commonwealth Games, PwC’s Mike Essex will be watching today’s triathlon with heightened interest – the senior PwC manager will be competing for his country himself come the end of next month. Essex, who turned 40 in March, will compete for Team GB [...]
Fast Forward: Can Chopin ease Jim Mellon’s road to new bestseller? July 22, 2014 They say there’s a book in everyone, but thinking about how to squeeze one out is a bridge too far for most of us. With four books under his belt, millionaire investor Jim Mellon has his book-writing strategy down pat. He takes himself off to his Ibiza-retreat and sits outside his local cafe, sipping rose [...]
Gary Player tees off as open-handed Brits prove a hit for Berenberg Bank’s charity efforts July 22, 2014 Germans may have put the English in the shade with their sporting success this year at the World Cup, but it seems there’s one pursuit we are better at: coughing up. So when Berenberg Bank wanted to ensure their sponsorship of an invitational pro-am golf tournament hosted by evergreen great Gary Player raised as much [...]
City of London and Westminster property tribes (almost) put rivalry aside July 21, 2014 The City of London and Westminster’s property giants put their old rivalries aside last night, as they came together in the House of Lords to launch Building Central London’s Future – A Manifesto For Growth. Well, almost… First to the stage was co-founder of Exemplar Properties and chairman of Westminster Property Association Daniel Van Gelder, [...]
Leadenhall Building to open its doors for Cheesegrater views at Open House London July 21, 2014 This year’s Open House festival of architecture, where you get to snoop around buildings you would ordinarily be tackled for trying to enter, features a star attraction: the hitherto unenjoyed view from the top of the Cheesegrater. Yes, on the 20th and 21st of September, the public will be allowed to ride the Leadenhall [...]
