Will Greenwood: Joe Marler “gypsy boy” affair should have been dealt with in a weekend by World Rugby and Six Nations March 31, 2016 World Cup winner Will Greenwood has called for rugby’s governing bodies to reassess their disciplinary procedures to avoid a repeat of England prop Joe Marler’s “gypsy boy” saga. Former England centre Greenwood believes World Rugby and Six Nations organisers should have delivered a coherent message over Marler’s contentious comment towards Wales prop Samson Lee earlier [...]
City Moves for 22 February 2016 | Who’s switching jobs February 22, 2016 Dechert Andrew Hood has joined the law firm as a senior director in its international trade and government regulation practice. Hood most recently served as legal adviser to the Prime Minister. Prior to this, he held positions as head of international and EU law at the Attorney General’s Office, legal adviser and senior policy officer [...]
Kirsh’s Tower 42 shoots up the City skyscraper rankings after becoming the tallest UK building with 4G February 9, 2016 Property moguls love nothing more than one-upping each other with small victories, but one tycoon can celebrate a first after bringing 4G phone signal to one of London's older skyscrapers. South African real estate tycoon Nathan Kirsh must be feeling pretty smug after his own victory. Kirsh’s Tower 42, only the seventh tallest building in [...]
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 [...]
City Moves for 14 December 2015 | Who’s switching jobs December 13, 2015 MARKETFORM Robert Brown has joined specialist underwriting firm Marketform as global practice leader of its M&A Insurance operations, heading up a team specialist underwriters and lawyers who are responsible underwriting complex transactions to provide bespoke warranty and indemnity and tax insurance products. Robert has more than 20 years’ worth of underwriting experience and has previously [...]
Lewis Moody: Chris Robshaw unlikely to be Eddie Jones’ captain, but new England head coach should keep him involved December 8, 2015 Former England captain Lewis Moody has called on Eddie Jones to keep under-fire skipper Chris Robshaw in the England set-up – even if, as seems likely, the new head coach strips him of the armband. Moody, too, has been the public face of World Cup disappointment, having led the Red Rose during their ill-fated trip [...]
Sexy Fish: Ivy tycoon Richard Caring transforms Mayfair bank into aquatic restaurant – with installations by Damien Hirst and a 13ft crocodile December 4, 2015 Restaurant tycoon Richard Caring, owner of Caprice Holdings, has launched a new aquatic-themed restaurant in Mayfair's Berkeley Square. Sexy Fish will – as the name implies – serve fish and seafood and sits on the site of an old NatWest banking hall. The restaurant will join Caprice Holding's growing list of London restaurants, which include The Ivy, Le Caprice and 34. [...]
The Help to Buy Isa for first-time buyers launches today: Here’s everything you need to know, including which banks and building societies will provide it and how much you can borrow December 1, 2015 It was now many moons ago that George Osborne introduced the Help to Buy Isa (Help to Buy-sa to its friends), which will give savers £50 for every £200 they save, up to £12,000. Nine months after it was first announced, the scheme is finally ready to be unveiled, with the launch slated for today. In other words: first-time [...]
NatWest says government’s new Help to Buy ISAs will help young customers November 27, 2015 NatWest has revealed that it will be one of the country’s first lenders to participate in the government’s new Help to Buy: ISA scheme. Starting next week, NatWest will offer customers accounts on the scheme, which will see the government topping up individuals’ savings when they purchase their first home. For every £200 an individual [...]
Buy-to-let is booming with more mortgage deals for landlords than ever but George Osborne’s tax changes will bite November 19, 2015 Buy to let is booming. Banks’ mortgage lending hit a post-crisis peak of £200bn last year so that “mortgage lending is currently enjoying its best spell since 2008,” says Bob Pannell of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). Although mortgage lending figures remain well below their pre-crisis highs of £350bn in 2007, the number of [...]