CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 27, 2010 Aviva The insurance giant said yesterday Patrick Regan, its incoming chief financial officer and executive director, will step up to his new role on 22 February. Regan was previously group chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Willis Group, and has also held finance roles in the past at the likes of RSA and [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 12, 2010 KBC Peel Hunt The mid and small cap corporate broking firm has made three senior hires. Stuart Duncan joins Peel Hunt’s equity research team from The Royal Bank of Scotland. Mark McGuinness, previously co-head of sales trading at Numis Securities, joins as a director in the sales trading team. Duncan and McGuinness join Andrew Chapman [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 20, 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers The accountancy firm has appointed Martin Caddick to lead its risk and business continuity management services team. Caddick joins from insurance broking and risk advisory firm Marsh, where he developed a successful business continuity practice and worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies in the UK and overseas. He also previously held director roles at [...]
NAB prepares to kick start consolidation December 17, 2009 NATIONAL Australian Bank (NAB) chief executive Cameron Clyne yesterday admitted it has received approaches about using its Clydesdale and Yorkshire operations to lead a banking consolidation drive in Britain. Speaking to shareholders at the institution’s annual meeting Clyne said: “We have been approached by a number of players in the UK market to see how we [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 14, 2009 Edison Investment Research Céline Saikali has joined the research firm as an account director, tasked with re-launching its investor access offering and focusing on European opportunities. Saikali previously worked at financial PR agency Redleaf Communications as an account director and head of the transaction team. Prior to that, she was at Dresdner Kleinwort, covering emerging [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 6, 2009 AshurstThe law firm’s board has reappointed Simon Bromwich to serve a further three-year term as managing partner.Bromwich was first appointed to the role in January 2004, while his new term will come to an end in January 2013.The firm’s senior partner Charlie Geffen said Bromwich had “dealt decisively” with the tough market conditions the firm [...]
C&W reveals 60m AXA deal December 2, 2009 Cable and Wireless Worldwide yesterday announced a six-year, £60m telephony transformation contract to take on the management of the entire AXA UK telephony estate. The estate, which spans 30 sites around the UK, encompasses 3,000 telephone agents and 12,000 users in total. Cable and Wireless said the deal would enable AXA to deliver an improved, [...]
Xenophobic energy sales patter is a load of hot air November 25, 2009 BRITISH Gas was this week attempting to make a virtue of accuracy in its billing systems with a series of newspaper advertisements as it attempts to lure new customers with the promise of scrapping estimated monthly bills in favour of a new, more transparent system. Ironic then that just hours before the launch at least [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 12, 2009 Daiwa SecuritiesThe investment banking group has appointed Masami Tada as its new chairman and chief executive for Europe and the Middle East. Tada joined the group in 1978 and has held a number of prominent roles in both Japan and Europe, most recently at the financial consulting and investment advisory arm, Daiwa Fund Consulting. The [...]
THE LONDON REPORT November 9, 2009 BRITAIN’S top share index hit its highest closing level in more than two weeks yesterday as the G20’s pledge to keep stimulus in place bolstered investors’ risk appetite, with miners and oil stocks leading the charge. The FTSE 100 closed up 92.46 points, or 1.8 per cent, at 5,235.18, the highest close since 23 October, [...]