Financial Tax Threatens London, Says Cable
‘A tax on Britain’, says business secretary.
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Ministry Of Sound In Cash To Politicians Query
Ministry lives up to name and cosies up to politicians.
Key London Hospitals To Lose Over 600 Jobs
Over 250 nursing staff excised by financial scalpel.
Bloomberg To Get New London HQ?
Bloomberg media group are expected to build new HQ on the site of Bucklersbury House in the City. Will it still look like Darth Vader’s helmet, as in original plans for the site?
Broadgate To Get ‘City’s Largest Office Building’
Investment bank UBS is working up plans for what would be the City’s most capacious office. The Swiss bank, in cahoots with developers British Land and estate owners Blackstone, wants to see a pair of ‘ageing’ Broadgate buildings (this chap, and this fellow, from way …
Metro Bank Opens In Holborn
The doors of the first brand new Metro Bank branch “store” finally swished open at 8am this morning. Opening hours are 7 days a week, early and late, to suit the 9-5er and the ability to print debit and credit cards on the spot are …
Museum Of The Month: Bank Of England Museum
By Jason Webber You must have wondered what goes on behind the fortress like walls of the Bank of England. The Soane designed security perimeter encloses that place wot sorts inflation out. So is there a hot air balloon inside there? Erm, yes, in fact …
Interview: Cityboy Geraint Anderson, Scourge Of The Square Mile
Sitting crossed legs on his couch, T-shirt and jeans outfit, tanned and relaxed after a two-weeks holiday in the Philippines, he doesn’t retain much of what he was a few years ago: a ‘square mile’ creature. A Cityboy. Geraint Anderson, former utility analyst, is today …
Shanghai Could Overtake London As Financial Centre
Ed Harcourt woz ere In the competition to be the world’s capital of finance, London could soon be pushed into third place. A survey by law firm Eversheds of 600 senior business executives concluded that Shanghai would probably overtake London in the next decade, with …
What Shall We Do With The Jobless Banker?
Let ‘em raise the kids. Westminster Council thinks the scores of newly-redundant stock brokers and hedge fund managers excreted out of the City’s bowels should seek alternative employment as foster carers. The council believes the fallow financiers’ combination of ample free time and desirable skills …
Fries To Go: McDonald’s Moves European HQ Out Of London
Borders ain’t the only ones jumping ship. McDonald’s today announced that they’re moving their European headquarters from London to Geneva, Switzerland. Nothing to do with corporate tax rates, claims spokesman Ed Petter. The move apparently allows them to ‘align matters connected with intellectual property’. We’re …
