City Moves for 12 June – Who’s switching jobs? June 12, 2019 Today’s City Moves includes KPMG, Reviral and FTI Consulting. KPMG KPMG has announced the appointment of Phil Abram as chair for its London region practice. Phil will work closely with management teams to oversee operations and drive the growth strategy across the five offices which make up KPMG’s London region, (Cambridge, Norwich, Gatwick, Milton Keynes [...]
High Court blocks Boris Johnson court summons over Brexit claim June 7, 2019 Boris Johnson has won a legal challenge against a High Court summons to face charges of misconduct in a public office. Read more: Boris Johnson launches leadership bid as Trump comes to town The charges related to his Brexit referendum claim that the UK pays the EU £350m a week. Earlier today Johnson’s lawyers argued [...]
Peterborough by-election: Labour beats Brexit party to defend seat June 7, 2019 Labour has retained a strongly-contested seat after withstanding a fierce challenge from the Brexit party in the Peterborough by-election. Read more: Rival blasts Raab’s no-deal Brexit as ‘illegal’ Labour’s union activist candidate, Lisa Forbes, won 31 per cent of the vote to beat the Brexit part’s Mike Greene, who came a narrow second with 29 [...]
FCA to overhaul banks’ ‘dysfunctional’ overdraft fees June 7, 2019 The financial regulator will set out to stop banks from charging higher fees for unarranged overdrafts, it confirmed today. Read more: Consumers could save ‘£100m a year’ from overdraft shake-up The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) laid out planned reforms to the “dysfunctional” overdraft market in a bid to make such arrangements simpler, fairer and easier [...]
Chaos hits commuters with severe Tube delays June 7, 2019 Commuters faced a dire journey into work this morning after signalling problems left three Tube lines suffering severe delays. Read more: These are the Tube’s most stressful stations The Circle Line and Hammersmith & City Line had severe delays along their entire lines this morning after the problem. Meanwhile the District Line had severe delays [...]
Rory Stewart: Dominic Raab’s no-deal Brexit plan ‘illegal’ June 6, 2019 Tory leadership contender Rory Stewart has labelled rival Dominic Raab’s bid to force a no-deal Brexit through parliament as “illegal”. Raab yesterday said he would be ready as Prime Minister to suspend parliament so he could force a no-deal departure from the EU. Read more: Tory leadership rivals caught in Westminster row The former Brexit [...]
Aviva to cull 1,800 jobs to save £300m per year June 6, 2019 Aviva is set to cut 1,800 jobs over the next three years in a bid to help save £300m per year. The bombshell announcement means the UK insurance giant stands to lose six per cent of its 30,000 workforce under new chief executive Maurice Tulloch. Read more: Aviva CFO to leave in latest leadership shake-up [...]
City Moves for 6 June – Who’s switching jobs? June 5, 2019 Today’s City Moves include Kantar, BGF and Growthdeck. Kantar Kantar, the world’s leading marketing insights and consulting company, announced the appointment of Nathalie Burdet as chief marketing officer (CMO). Nathalie is appointed from her current position as global marketing leader of Kantar’s Insights division. She additionally joins the Kantar Board. Nathalie replaces Mandy Pooler, who [...]
Aviva CFO to leave in latest leadership shake-up June 5, 2019 Aviva’s CFO is set to depart in the latest of a series of sweeping changes under new boss Maurice Tulloch. Tom Stoddard will quit his role as chief financial officer at the end of June, the UK insurer’s board of directors said. Read more: Aviva share price falls as it warns of ‘muted’ 2019 He [...]
City Moves for 5 June – Who’s switching jobs? June 4, 2019 Today’s City Moves includes Barclays, 11:FS and FXD Capital. Barclays Barclays has appointed Karen Johnson as the national head of retail, wholesale and healthcare for its Corporate Banking business. Karen has more than 25 years banking experience, working with a wide range of businesses from owner-managed through to multinationals. She joined Barclays in 2015 to [...]