Reuters: Genevoise bankers in fear for Switz
GENEVA (Reuters) – Geneva’s banks and trading houses are worried about the future allure of Switzerland as an international banking…
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MarketWatch: Belgian bank to buy Kleinwort Benson
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — RHJ International SA, a Belgium-based diversified investment holding company, said Thursday that it’s agreed to buy Kleinwort…
ByFrieze Week: Wednesday
When the fair finally opened, orange stickers appeared on works’ labels like a rapidly-spreading outbreak of chicken pox. Plus, Spear’s…
ByFT: 80% of City workers see bonus rises or stable
Four-fifths of City workers expect their bonuses this year to be higher or similar to those last year in spite…
ByTimes: Rich List tycoon sent to jail after $175m fraud
A business tycoon who made it on to the Sunday Times Rich List faces up to 14 years in jail…
ByTel: Goldman pondering $1bn charity donation
Goldman Sachs is considering donating in excess of $1bn (£627m) to charity in an attempt to quell the growing furore…
ByWSJ: Asians lost more last year than the West
HONG KONG — After years of easy money, Asia’s elite suffered worse financial pain last year than their counterparts elsewhere,…
ByDr Doom and Dr Gloom
Quantitative easing, you see, isn’t reaching those parts that the other stimuli cannot reach. The last issue of the house…
ByFrieze Week: Tuesday
‘Bacon? Who’s he? Never heard of him,’ says Damien when I ask him about his influences. ‘I prefer eggs and…
ByFrieze Week: Monday
Laurence Graff told Spear’s that he had always wondered what it was like to stand on the other side of…
ByeFc: Coutts loses 70 bankers in mass defection
The 70 RBS Coutts employees in Singapore who grabbed international headlines today by quitting the firm en masse are all…
ByArt London looks up
Art London had too much drawing-room art last year. This year, Art London moved out of the drawing room and…
ByNon-doms remain, London property prices to rise from 2010
The supposed exodus of non-doms from London has not materialised, according to Knight Frank’s residential market forecast, launched this morning.…
ByFrom Russia with Steam
The torture chamber chic really comes into its own when you have a platzka. A Russian comes in with a…
ByLock up Your Houses!
Ross Clark on the devious yet relatively simple means by which fraudsters can, figuratively speaking, make off with your real…
ByJohn Redwood on the Economic Crisis
Read John Redwood’s summary of the Spear’s Talk he gave at the Henley Literary Festival on Sunday, October 4 “For…
BySplitting the Difference
Divorce law relating to financial settlements has long ceased to be a laughing matter. That is because UK law is…
ByAfterlives
The sad truth is that most people in the City do not have a Plan B, either through lack of…
ByWobbly-W and Wobbledy-Gook
The world economy is not on an incipient roll as the politicians and central bankers would have you believe; it’s…
ByExclusive: Vestra hits £1 billion
Vestra Wealth, the wealth management firm set up after a very public exodus of UBS bankers, has reached £1 billion…
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