Shirley Temple and The Gent get their gongs at Stock Exchange Vets dinner June 26, 2014 Two City legends were decorated at the annual Stock Exchange Vets dinner in The Grange Hotel last night. Ex-chairmen Les Ames and Bill Sharp, played the perfect (and tall) double act as they received their honorary president titles – while using their old trading floor titles, The Gent and Shirley Temple. “I’m so proud. I [...]
Handbags at dawn: City ladies go gaga over designer arm candy June 26, 2014 RBS’ atrium became a flurry of activity last night as it hosted the annual Bag Ladies event, which saw handbags from the likes of Anya Hindmarch, Victoria Beckham and Burberry go under the hammer in aid of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering. Supported by RBS and run by ex-JP Morgan Cazenove comms director [...]
Boris Johnson’s Barclays bikes could be getting an animal print paint job June 26, 2014 When Barclays hands over the reins of its Boris Bike sponsorship next year it could well be passing them to an east London toy maker. TellTails is hoping to raise £37.5m on crowdfunding site Indiegogo to give each bike an animal print paint job and tail. We think they’re rather fetching… From the [...]
Stepping down Justin King heading for World Cup final June 25, 2014 Speculation about what Justin King, chief exec of Sainsbury’s, will do after he steps down next month has been rife – will he replace Ecclestone? Will he step into Bolland’s shoes? Will he go back to selling Haagen-Dazs? Well, we can’t reveal what his next career move is, but we do know what he’s doing [...]
London Pride Gala Dinner brings Ian McKellen to the City’s Mansion House June 25, 2014 Sir Ian McKellen was the guest of honour at the London Pride Gala Dinner at Mansion House last night where he was joined by Lord Mayor Fiona Woolf, singer Will Young, TV presenter Claire Balding and headline sponsors Citi and Baker & McKenzie. It was revealed at dinner that Sir Ian is to receive [...]
World’s most influential women at the Rosewood Hotel June 24, 2014 Some of the world’s most influential women descended on Holborn yesterday for the Fortune Most Powerful Women Conference in the Rosewood Hotel. Theresa May’s partially unexplained absence (due to a mystery scheduling conflict) did little to diminish the high level of inspiring chat. Facebook’s Europe Middle East and Asia vice-president Nicola Mendelsohn touched on the [...]
David Laws jokes about end of Vince Cable’s BIS June 24, 2014 Vince Cable’s glaring career irony of having written in 2004 that the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills should be scrapped was dragged up again yesterday at the Orange Book: 10th Anniversary conference. The business secretary’s colleague David Laws made a sly dig, saying “progress on Vince’s Orange Book proposal to abolish the DTI has [...]
London’s Salesforce Tower gets new name but Heron tenants not sold June 23, 2014 The renaming process of Heron Tow… we mean Salesforce Tower, reached an important milestone last night, with the renaming ceremony taking place on its 26th floor. “This is the first time a building in the City of London has been named after a tech company; we’re literally cementing our presence here,” said Miguel Milano, Salesforce’s [...]
The City’s office choir kicks off LSE with “Let’s go fly a kite” from Mary Poppins June 23, 2014 Stock market ceremonies vary from place to place, there are bells, buzzers and countdown orbs, but we’d wager none have ever kicked off a day’s trading with a song – until yesterday. Stocks began Monday morning trading on the LSE following a rendition of “Let’s go fly a kite” from Mary Poppins – sung by [...]
City of London Festival: Bowler hats off in Paternoster Square June 23, 2014 Anyone walking through Paternoster Square this morning, be not afraid of the giant millinery planted in the middle. You haven’t woken up in a Lewis Carroll novel – the City of London Festival has started and that giant bowler hat is a venue. The festival has previously slipped under the radar slightly, but this [...]
