By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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The world’s poorest man Jerome Kerviel has handed himself in to French authorities

September 17, 2015

Jerome Kerviel, the ex-Societe Generale trader who has more debt than anyone else in the world, has turned himself in to French authorities to begin a three-year jail sentence. His return home is something of an end point to a saga that goes from huge unauthorised trades on the eve of the financial crisis, to [...]
Investment management firm Standard Life Wealth acquires Newton Private Clients

August 5, 2015

Pensions, insurance and savings firm Standard Life has announced that Standard Life Wealth, their wealth management division, has successfully completed the acquisition of Newton Private Clients from Newton Management Limited. Standard Life Wealth will be the brand under which the combined business will operate, with £5.5bn assets under management. The acquisition will increase profitability and [...]
Crowdfunding raises in history

July 23, 2015

“This ain’t a new idea; there’s a long history of it”. This is Walter Isaacson’s rather blunt summation of crowdfunding. While the technology that powers platforms and enables debt and equity raises might be innovative, the Steve Jobs biographer is right that collecting a little from a lot isn’t new. Here are some donation-based crowdfunding [...]
City Moves for 15 December 2014 | Who’s switching jobs

December 14, 2014

Lloyds Theresa Newell has been promoted to managing director and co-head of leveraged credit sales at Lloyds Bank Commercial Bank. Newell joined Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking last year and has over 15 years’ experience in credit products. Previously, she was with RBS and JP Morgan Chase. Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management Andrew Clotworthy has joined the [...]
Going places: The Source founder James Crabb talks risk-taking and velour sofas

December 14, 2014

It was just time to do something completely different,” James Crabb tells me. He’s talking about going from managing director of global technology and operations at Deutsche Bank to founding The Source, a digital lifestyle business that satisfies the emerging affluents’ every need – from food, wine, travel and childcare to art, home interiors and [...]
City Moves for 12 December 2014 | Who’s switching jobs

December 11, 2014

Castle Harbour The financial services firm has appointed Eric Daniel to co-manage a new convertible bond fund. Daniel was formerly head of equity derivatives and convertible bond sales at Citigroup in Paris. He will run the Castle Harbour R&D Pure Global Convertibles Fund. Canaccord Genuity Nishad Vallonthaiel has been appointed head of electronic and programme [...]
City Moves for 11 December 2014 | Who’s switching jobs

December 10, 2014

Baringa James Belmont joins the management consultancy as director of its new risk analytics service. Belmont has over 15 years’ experience in consultancy and industry, and has held senior positions at Barclays, Alliance & Leicester and PA Consulting. Linklaters The law firm has appointed Scott Campbell as managing partner for the United Arab Emirates. The [...]
Restaurateur Des McDonald discusses the burger revolution, forests and what it means to have cooking in your blood

December 7, 2014

Sitting in your own month-old restaurant would be extremely exciting for most people. It is for Des McDonald too, except this is one of six – and they’ve all opened within the last two years. His second branch of The Fish & Chip Shop is the latest, and it’s bringing the City what McDonald describes [...]
Picking the right funds: Why it pays dividends to be on the ball

December 2, 2014

However keen you are to diversify, be wary of overdoing it IT’S BEEN a tough year for some fund managers. Missed opportunities in tech shares and bad bets on financial stocks have seen 85 per cent of active large-cap stock funds lag their benchmark indices through to 25 November of this year. Lipper, which did [...]
Christmas reading: Why not try a business book? From Amazon’s 14 principles to TED Talk secrets

December 1, 2014

Although you might feel mildly frustrated if you’ve missed out on the four day-long Black Friday to Cyber Monday discount shopping extravaganza, that shouldn’t stop you from getting a good Christmas read sorted in advance. There are plenty of guides to the best books of 2014 – from novels to economic tomes – [...]

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