World Vegan Month: Parliament offers vegan loyalty card to tofu Tories November 3, 2014 We may have been celebrating British Sausage Week in the Square Mile yesterday but over in Westminster there was a less-meaty vibe. To mark World Vegan Month the parliament is offering a vegan loyalty card, which rewards each vegan meal purchased with a stamp – five stamps gets you a free vegan snack bar, nine [...]
Liz Peace: Three things you didn’t know about the British Property Federation CEO November 3, 2014 1 Peace is a massive fan of Star Trek and certainly doesn’t hide the fact she’s a Trekkie – she has a poster of Scotty on her office wall. 2 Before she joined the MoD she worked in a chocolate factory during university holidays. She was told that she would lose the taste for chocolate [...]
New c2c Smart card: The only way is Oyster, as Essex commuters tap in November 3, 2014 Thousands of commuters based in Essex will benefit from Oyster-style travel cards on trains from today. The c2c Smart card will allow c2c season ticket holders to “tap and go,” for journeys into London’s Fenchurch Street, as well as outside the capital, speeding up the commuting process and making season tickets more secure. [...]
Entrepreneur Luke Johnson reveals he has a secret stalker November 3, 2014 Risk Capital Partners chairman and entrepreneur Luke Johnson looks to be paying the price of fame – the private equity star has got himself an obsessive fan. “I appear to have a stalker. She attends many of my speaking engagements and then comes up to me at the end…and says ‘I want you,’” he writes [...]
Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner hits the phones for Bloomberg Tradebook’s Children in Crisis charity trading day October 30, 2014 Bloomberg's agency brokerage Tradebook opened its Finsbury Square doors to a host of unlikely characters yesterday for its annual charity trading day. With an aim to raise over $1m for charities such as Great Ormond Street Hospital and Children in Crisis, employees came in full fancy dress and helped well-known faces such as [...]
Movember 2014: The Movember Arms opens in Moorgate just on time for the 1st October 30, 2014 Menfolk – Movember is almost upon us and with it, the end of your facial hair as you know it. It’s time to get your razors out and start cultivating your new mo from tomorrow. Many of you have already signed up to take part in the City A.M. Finance Challenge, via the Movember website. [...]
What’s it like to spend $200k on lunch? Guy Spier wins bid for date with Warren Buffett October 29, 2014 What’s it like to go for lunch with Warren Buffett? Aquamarine Capital fund manager Guy Spier knows, and it cost him only $216,000. Spier and friend Mohnish Pabrai were successful in Buffett’s annual lunch bid in 2007, with all proceeds going to charity. Was it worth it? “Absolutely. It’s hard to calculate the ROI but [...]
What is Nimbuzz? Ashmore Group’s Jerome Booth set to battle WhatsApp with new messanger app October 29, 2014 The City’s favourite emerging markets evangelist Jerome Booth has er, re-emerged, having been relatively quiet since he stepped down as head of research at Ashmore Group last summer. What’s he up to, I hear you ask? Aside from sporting this fetching turban, he’s been on the acquisition trail with New Call Telecom, one of the [...]
Battersea Power Station gets boost from £1.35bn syndicated debt facility and more sets of boots October 28, 2014 The Malaysian housing minister, Abdul Rahman Dahlan, led a group of visiting bankers from his country in donning steel toe boots, hard hats and goggles yesterday, as the group made their way up to Battersea Power Station’s Control Room, via some nerve-wracking metal stairs, to sign the closure of a £1.35bn syndicated debt facility to [...]
Women of the Future awards: KPMG partner Claire Angell takes prize October 28, 2014 Pioneering female business stars gathered at the Hilton, Park Lane last night for the annual Women of the Future awards, joining secretary for education Nikki Morgan and Dragons’ Den star Kelly Hoppen. There were many City and London names in the running, but Claire Angell, director at KPMG took the professional award, as one of [...]
