City Moves for 27 January 2016 | Who’s switching jobs January 27, 2016 Indigo Planning Indigo Planning has appointed of Julie White as associate. Julie joins the consultancy firm with more than 15 years’ national and regional industry experience. Much of Julie’s work has focused on delivering residential and mixed-use proposals for private developers, as well as major retail projects for a national supermarket operator. She also has experience [...]
Great Western Developments will invest £47m of its own funds into the tube developments at Paddington station January 26, 2016 Great Western Developments, the developer working on the revamp of Paddington station and the so-called Shard of west London, has told City A.M. it will be providing the £47m investment needed to upgrade the tube station. Great Western Developments (GWD), a subsidiary of Singapore’s Hotel Properties, is working with the team behind the Shard and the London Bridge redevelopment, Sellar Property [...]
Luxury homes are filling in the gaps on a WWII bomb site in Fitzrovia January 25, 2016 Tucked away on a corner off of Tottenham Court Road, sits a jumble of mismatched buildings. One of them is the epitome of modern urban living – all dark brick boxes and sharp angles – while its neighbours sport austere Georgian facades and regal ribbons of Portland stone. Originally, these were six individual plots, including [...]
Plans for five-storey office block above Farringdon Crossrail station win approval January 25, 2016 Plans to build a major new office building above Farringdon Crossrail station have been given the go-ahead by City planners today, with construction expected to start next year. Designed by PLP Architecture – the architects behind Lipton Rogers and Axa Real Estate's 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper – the five-storey building will sit above the station's eastern ticket hall on [...]
Westfield Stratford evacuated as fire breaks out January 25, 2016 Hundreds of shoppers and retail staff have been evacuated from east London shopping centre Westfield Stratford after a fire broke out this afternoon. A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade told City A.M. the emergency service had been called to scene at around 12:45pm. The fire – which was "very small" – was not actually in Westfield itself, [...]
Bitcoin: Banks are worryingly complacent about the coming digital currency storm January 25, 2016 The financial services industry is dangerously complacent in its approach to digital money. Some of the major banks almost look like they fear technological change that promises greater transparency, efficiency and security at a lower cost. Too many industry players and regulators have spent more time shutting down innovations than driving them. Barclays, Chase, Westpac [...]
M Restaurant’s Martin Williams on Wagyu, division bells and building a brand January 25, 2016 There is something of the Midas touch about Martin Williams. Forty minutes into an interview about his restaurants, M Threadneedle Street and M Victoria Street – currently two of the capital’s trendiest hangouts – he mentions his previous life as an actor. Despite being successful on stage and TV in his early twenties, the on-off [...]
Amazon to create thousands more jobs in Europe and UK in fulfillment, R&D and software development January 22, 2016 Amazon is going on a major hiring spree as the etailer ramps up its operation across Europe and the UK. The retailer said many of the new jobs – of which 2,500 will be in the UK – will help expand its European fulfilment network, as well as focusing on EU-based research and development. The new roles [...]
City Moves for 22 January 2016 | Who’s switching jobs January 22, 2016 RateSetter Marketplace lender RateSetter has appointed Paul Marston as head of SME lending and Angela Yotov as head of legal. Paul joins from Secure Trust Bank, a challenger bank, where he was managing director of the business and commercial division which provides funding for SMEs and property development loans. Prior to that he was a [...]
Blockchain payment revolution: How to ensure confidence in twenty-first century transactions January 22, 2016 We are on the threshold of a revolution in financial services which promises extraordinary leaps in efficiency for all kinds of transactions. And arguably the biggest obstacle to our society reaping the full benefit of this findustrial revolution is the issue of trust in transactions. When stock exchanges developed centuries ago, a handshake between (predominantly) [...]