Chris Newlands
Editor and Writer at Freelance
Journalist, writer and editor. Ex @FT, former business and money editor @theipaper, ex @FinancialNews editor. Author of The Virgin Money Maker
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1 week ago |
spearswms.com | Chris Newlands
You get the impression UBS has a lot of staff in its many offices around the world who believe they are superstars. Well, the Swiss bank now has a genuine contender: Anders Lindegaard, the decorated former professional footballer, who joined its wealth management division at the end of last year as a 'business developer'.
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2 weeks ago |
spearswms.com | Chris Newlands
What a difference a year makes. This time in 2024, St. James's Place, Britain's biggest wealth manager, had slashed its dividend in half, posted its first loss in 10 years and announced it had set aside £426 million to compensate clients for advice they didn't actually receive. As a result, its share price had tanked, with the Gloucestershire-based firm staring down the barrel of being relegated from the FTSE 100 index of the UK's biggest companies.
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3 weeks ago |
thebanker.com | Chris Newlands
The Bank of London is six months late in publishing its annual accounts as questions persist over the financial health of the troubled UK fintech. The fledgling clearing bank, which saw Labour grandee Peter Mandelson and US private equity boss Harvey Schwartz leave its board in October, should have filed its accounts for 2023 in September last year.
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4 weeks ago |
thebanker.com | Chris Newlands |Todd Baker
The big surprise when it comes to financial regulation is that Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer have so much in common. Before the UK prime minister took office last year he told journalists that he describes himself as a socialist, a position seemingly poles apart from the US president’s own brand of rightwing “Trumpism”.
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1 month ago |
thebanker.com | Chris Newlands
The number of remote and hybrid investment banking jobs being advertised in the US and the UK has tumbled over the past year as companies haul their staff back into the office. According to figures given exclusively to The Banker by recruitment site Indeed, the amount of banking jobs being posted in the US that allow for working at home have fallen by almost a quarter in the past 12 months. In the UK, the drop is 15 per cent.
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Do or DEI: Donald Trump’s deadly attack on diversity. My piece for @TheBanker, featuring @thatginamiller, @MorrisseyHelena, @Citi, @BofA_News, @GoldmanSachs https://t.co/xFi6QEBRlt
Canary Wharf is a child of the 1980s, built at a time of shoulder pads and power suits. But decades later some of the district's biggest tenants are moving out. So what's next for Canary Wharf. https://t.co/VbevELasfc
Never before has the UK’s main financial regulator come under such a sustained attack. My piece for @TheBanker featuring @thatginamiller, @andyaga, @premnsikka, @BobBlackman, @TheFCA and @UKFtweets. https://t.co/U1f6QwpHGg
