City watchdog hires three senior officials as it ramps up recruitment drive April 5, 2022 The City watchdog has hired three new senior officials as it pushes to strengthen its authorisation process, it announced today. City veteran Craig Chapman is set to join the FCA as Finance Director, from his current role as CFO at London fintech firm RTX Routetrader. Prior to joining RTX Routetrader, Chapman worked in various senior [...]
Brewin Dolphin shares fly following £1.6bn RBC Wealth Management bid March 31, 2022 The Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) wealth management business has offered to buy British investment management heavyweight Brewin Dolphin for £1.6bn. London-headquartered Brewin will receive 515p per share, which includes an over 60 per cent premium on yesterday’s closing price of 318p. The bid values Brewin at 2.8 per cent of its £55bn assets under [...]
Lord Nash steps down paving the way for new lead Whitehall director March 30, 2022 The government lead non-executive director resigned from his post yesterday. Lord Nash, who was appointed to the role by the Prime Minister in July 2020 for a three-year term, will be replaced in his Whitehall role by ex-director of Barclays Bank UK Michael Jary, according to Sky News’ Mark Kleinman. Insiders said yesterday that Michael [...]
Scepticism over Kremlin’s pledges weigh on London indexes March 30, 2022 A push back from western nations on the validity of Russia pledging to roll back its assault on Ukraine drove a mixed day for London’s top indexes today. The capital’s premier FTSE 100 index climbed 0.55 per cent to 7,578.75 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, dropped 1.02 per cent to 21,272.47 points. [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? March 30, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Johnston Carmichael Accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has bolstered its London leadership team with a new internal audit and controls assurance partner. Si Mathavan, who joins from EY where he was director of the assurance team, brings 17 years’ worth of experience [...]
Chief execs in Boris Johnson’s position would fall on their sword for rule-breaking March 30, 2022 In the corporate world, there was a slightly different take on “party-gate” than the conventional wisdom of Westminster, which has waited for fines to be doled out to look again at allegations of wrongdoing during lockdowns. The invasion of Ukraine has, understandably, taken over as priority, but it should not be able to fly under [...]
The City View: Consumers borrowing more, and Victoria Scholar on $15bn Barclays blunder March 29, 2022 Today Andy Silvester chats to Interactive Investor’s Victoria Scholar. They go through Barclays’ rough start to the week after an unknown investor sold over £900m worth of shares in the bank following its $15bn securities blunder; Waitrose’s legal row with ASDA, and consumers turning to discount retailers amid the cost-of-living crisis; and Tesla’s stock split. [...]
Barclays investor offloads £900m and sends shares tumbling after securities slip up March 29, 2022 Shares in Barclays have plunged this morning as a major shareholder offloaded around £900m worth of shares, just one day after a slip up on securities selling saw it book a £450m hit.
City A.M. Awards 2022: Dealmaker of the Year March 29, 2022 The City is back, and so are the City A.M. Awards, recognising the best of the Square Mile, Canary Wharf and London’s business community – which has shown shown resilience, innovation and adaptability like never before over the past year. We’re delighted to host what will be a wonderful celebration of the capital’s rebound, but [...]
Another bad day for Barclays but it’s Staley’s shadow that looms March 28, 2022 No conspiracy, just cock-up. That seems to be the conclusion to draw from Barclays’ statement yesterday that it had managed to overshoot its regulator-agreed limits with all the reckless abandon of a student enjoying the first week of university. In this case it was the selling of complex securities rather than discount vodka shots, but [...]