Ben Martin
Banking Editor at The Times
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2 weeks ago |
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
PHOTO GALLERY: Miss Mississippi Parade rolls through Vicksburg Published 10:48 pm Monday, June 9, 2025 1 of 30 Miss Queen of the South, Celeste Lay Miss Smith County, Savannah Ogden Miss Tupelo, Madison Belk Miss Jones County, Katelyn Perry Miss University, McKenzie Cox Miss Vicksburg, Morgan Nelson Miss Lafayette County, Malley Chase Faulkner Miss Mississippi State University, Sarah Randolph Miss Leaf River Valley, Jerica Brown Miss Meridian, Rose Stafford Miss Hattiesburg, Jane Granberry...
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Martin
It hasn’t taken much time for anti-opioid addiction drug maker Indivior to wean itself off the London stock market. It was only in February last year that the pharmaceuticals group revealed plans to move its primary listing to New York’s Nasdaq, dealing a blow to the London Stock Exchange by joining a string of companies that have recently ditched the UK as the venue for their main stock market quote.
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Martin
The cryptocurrency market has moved closer to shedding its Wild West image after one of Britain’s biggest online trading firms set out plans to allow retail clients to deal directly in digital assets. IG Group said it would become the first UK-listed company to enable retail investors in Britain to buy and sell individual tokens including bitcoin and ethereum when it starts a new service this week.
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4 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Martin
The government has finally returned NatWest to full private ownership in a move that crystallises a £10.5 billion loss for taxpayers almost 17 years after the state rescued the bank from collapse. In a landmark moment for Britain’s banking industry that draws a line under the 2008 bailouts and nationalisations, the Treasury announced on Friday evening that it had sold its remaining shares in the lender, completing a sell-down process that has taken a decade to complete.
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4 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Martin
“I had recurring nightmares for nine months after I left government about the crisis,” recalled one of the architects of the bank rescues in 2008, who declined to be named. Almost 17 years later, it is finally over. The sale of the state’s remaining shares in NatWestis not just a watershed for the FTSE 100 lender, putting behind it the legacy of the £45.5 billion taxpayer bailout that has so often served as an albatross around the neck of successive bosses.
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Mixing with Bono and Serena Williams fails to lighten the gloom for the buyout industry - my report from then world’s biggest gathering of private equity barons in Berlin https://t.co/9hylrWUUoN
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“I had recurring nightmares for nine months after I left government about the crisis,” recalls one of the architects of the bank rescues in 2008. 17 years later, it is finally over, with the state selling its remaining NatWest shares https://t.co/QkYOKXER9d