Yes, it’s that time of year again, and the Williams Network Event will take place at its traditional home, the Williams Ale and Wine...

A well-known female private wealth banking professional has branched out to become an investor and silent partner in a brand new art...

So Q1 is drawing to a close, and I detect an ever-so-slight uptick in sentiment in the market, with more offers being extended and more...

Following on from my last note, sentiment seems to be perceptibly improving in the market; roles are being raised, interviewed for and...

Any EU-wide limit on bankers’ remuneration will, in likelihood, create anguished complaints of “business prevention” , “restraint of...

This week I thought I’d touch on some practical suggestions for those folk who are either currently looking for a job or thinking about...

Perhaps it’s because I’m sitting at a desk and not out where I ideally should be, namely grouse shooting on the Glorious Twelfth—damn...

As I sit here enjoying the tremendous weather—yes, before you ask, I’m away again, this time in Boston but it could just as well be...

When many of us were young, raised as we were in the mid-1960s and 1970s, we were brought up to believe that our life would follow a...

While, in hindsight, some of my columns last year may have been a tad maudlin, I felt that they accurately conveyed the zeitgeist and...

One of my favourite sayings, other than that great politician Tony Blair’s “now is not the time for soundbites [but] I can feel the hand...

Have you ever considered that books and drugs are similar in many ways? The right ones, used in the right manner, can make you laugh,...

As someone whose oratorical style varies between Elmer Fudd and Elmer Gantry—usually depending on my level of interest in the subject...

The idea of the ‘perfect storm’ is one with which most of us are very familiar—the concept that, at certain times, a unique set of...

What a difference a day makes, or more accurately, a Bank Holiday weekend. A somewhat misogynistic acquaintance of mine traditionally...

Don’t you find it odd that, in the UK, a police officer is not allowed to counter-sign a passport application form whereas a banker—that...

While it’s tempting to begin this edition of the column along the lines of last time’s theme—‘it’s a funny old world’—given that the...

HornbyChapman and AlfaSec Advisors Announce Strategic Alliance We are pleased to announce that HornbyChapman Limited and AlfaSec Advisors...

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