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General Financial News analysis Company alumni now dominate top UK broking businesses, writes Masa Serdarevic Hoare Govett may be a shadow of its former self, nestled as it is in [...]

general financial Two former stockbrokers have been fined a total of [pounds sterling]100,000 and banned from working in the financial services industry after the City regulator found that they used [...]

general financial News analysis The fundraiser by Icap has achieved legendary status in the City, writes Masa Serdarevic For one day a year a number of interdealer brokers throw as [...]

FINANCIALS Sir David Rowe-Ham is to step down as non-executive chairman of Arden Partners at the end of the year leaving the small-cap broker without one of its most experienced [...]

General Financial Full-year revenues increase to [pounds sterling]51.9m Activity levels seen as remaining low Numis reported its first- ever half-year loss on an adjusted basis in spite of being one [...]

General Financial Delay blamed on national regulators Six months later than initially expected, Banco Espirito Santo and Execution Noble have completed their deal in which the Portuguese bank has taken [...]

General Financial Peel Hunt is marking its 21st birthday by becoming an independent company after 10 years as part of KBC Group, the Belgian financial group. The deal, announced in [...]

Real Estate Winkworth, the estate agency chain, expects to beat its annual profit target after a strong third-quarter performance, which came in spite of sluggish market conditions with low transaction [...]

general financial Citic Merchant, the investment banking division of China's state-owned investment company Citic Group, has entered into a strategic alliance with London-based boutique corporate finance adviser Strand Hanson. The [...]

A Mizuho Internationalexecutive has been arrested in London in connection with the Financial Services Authority's crackdown on insider dealing, the Financial Times can reveal. A 28-year-old woman not employed by [...]

General Financial Arden Partners expects to report an annual operating profit less than two months after issuing a profit warning and ousting its chief executive. The completion of two corporate [...]

general financial News analysis Overcapacity is proving a problem at small to mid-cap businesses, says Masa Serdarevic Two years on from the start of the financial crisis, the independent stockbroking [...]

general financial Lord Browne has been appointed chairman of a newly-created advisory board at Stanhope Capital as the asset manager gears up for international expansion. The former chief executive of [...]

Travel & leisure Bwin merger proceeding to plan Strong demand for poker in France PartyGaming, the online gambling group, said its merger with sport-focused operator Bwin was proceeding as planned, [...]

general retailers Debenhams reaffirmed its intention to reinstate a dividend later this year, after higher sales of own-label clothing pushed up full-year margins at the department store group. However, in [...]

general retailers Pre-tax profit rises 16% to [pounds sterling]140m Group looks to restore dividend Debenhams re-affirmed its intention to reinstate a dividend later this year, after higher sales of own-label [...]

Interim pre-tax profit rises to [pounds sterling]151m Group to expand in UK and abroad As the UK's consumerfacing businesses brace for the government's spending review, Whitbread, the hotel and coffee [...]

Interview Ian Gorham Chief executive, Hargreaves Lansdown The hands-on head promises business as usual after smooth transition,writes Masa Serdarevic Ian Gorham, the new chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown, is in [...]

General Retailers Clinton Cards shares fell almost 10 per cent on Thursday after the greeting cards retailer reported a halving of full-year pre-tax profits. Revenues increased 16 per cent from [...]

General Financial Terry Smith, the veteran City broker, is to leave Collins Stewart in December, marking the end of an era for one of London's biggest independent stockbrokers. The move [...]

Ted Baker reported a 25 per cent surge in first-half pre-tax profits on Thursday as customer demand rose across its UK and overseas markets. The apparel retailer that bridges the [...]

general financial Disagreement with board over direction Jeremy Grime, chief executive of Arden Partners, has been forced to leave the small-cap stockbroker after less than four months in the top [...]

London BG Group was one of the London market's best performers after renewed talk that a larger rival could swoop. Royal Dutch Shell was the name again mooted by some [...]

General Financial The latest row over poaching of staff between interdealer brokers has escalated after Tradition accused Icap of orchestrating a 'one-sided spin campaign' after its rival won a court [...]

General financial Group foresees an 'independent future' Panmure Gordon said a 'tough trading environment' caused first-half losses to widen as the stockbroker brushed off a possible bid from larger rival [...]

Failed lender's fire sale raises [pounds sterling]1.6m A well-heeled crowd gathered to pick over the carcass of Lehman Brothers in a Christie's auction room in London on Wednesday. Present were [...]

Regulation Penalty totals more than [pounds sterling]250,000 30% discount for early settlement The Financial Services Authority has fined Fabio Massimo de Biase, a former broker, more than [pounds sterling]250,000 and [...]

General Financial Full-year pre-tax profits rose more than 12 per cent at Close Brothers, the investment bank, as record lending by its specialist bank offset a weak performance by the [...]

international TODAY Earnings Cal-Maine Foods Q1 -$0.06 (-$0.16) Shareholder meetings Axa CNP Assurances FedEx General Mills TUESDAY 28 Earnings Walgreen Q4 $0.44 ($0.44) Shareholder meetings BNP Paribas WEDNESDAY 29 * [...]

uk TODAY Earnings Wolseley FY 71.31p (95.60p) TUESDAY 28 * Close Brothers , the independent specialist bank, is expected to report a solid rise in profits when it releases its [...]

General Financial Evolution Group, the FTSE 250 investment bank, is considering a bid for its smaller rival Panmure Gordon in a move that could spark a wave of consolidation in [...]

General Retailers Will Adderley, chief executive of Dunelm, will step down from the role after 15 years to take up the newly created post of executive deputy chairman, as the [...]

General Financial Shore Capital, the stockbroker and asset manager, more than doubled its first-half profits as its fund management division rebounded from last year's poor performance. The company, headed by [...]

Energy Source (Masa Serdarevic): A new panel of on global sustainability was revealed on Monday by Ban Ki-moon, United Nations secretary-general, asked to 'think big' about ways to 'lift people [...]

Energy Source (Masa Serdarevic): The smart electricity market in the European Union is expected to expand rapidly in coming years, according to a report by Greenbang, an independent sustainability research [...]

wall street US stocks fell sharply yesterday as disappointing revenue growth from a number of closely-watched companies and weak consumer sentiment data undermined sentiment. 'Earnings have been pretty good,' said [...]

wall street US stocks fell sharply yesterday as disappointing revenue growth from a number of closely-watched companies and weak consumer sentiment data undermined sentiment. At the close, the S&P 500 [...]

wall street US stocks erased losses in the final hour of trading yesterday, led by a rally in energy stocks following BP 's announcement that it had stopped the flow [...]

wall street US stocks erased losses in the final hour of trading yesterday, led by a rally in energy stocks following BP 's announcement that it had stopped the flow [...]

wall street US stocks weakened yesterday as disappointing manufacturing figures from New York and Philadelphia prompted traders to take profits following a seven-day rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average [...]

Wall Street US stocks closed mostly flat yesterday after a six-day winning streak, in spite of a relatively strong start to the earnings season, as a report showed that retail [...]

Wall Street US stocks closed mostly flat yesterday after a six-day winning streak, in spite of a relatively strong start to the earnings season, as a report showed that retail [...]

wall street US stocks rallied on Wall Street yesterday for the sixth consecutive session as the earnings season got off to a better start than many had feared. Alcoa and [...]

wall street US stocks rallied on Wall Street yesterday for the sixth consecutive session as the earnings season got off to a better start than many had feared. Alcoa and [...]

Wall Street US stocks inched slightly higher yesterday as investors cautiously awaited Alcoa's quarterly results, after the market close, to kick off the earnings season. Aluminium producer Alcoa posted modestly [...]

Wall Street US stocks inched slightly higher yesterday as investors awaited Alcoa's quarterly results, after the market close, to kick off the earnings season. Aluminium producer Alcoa posted modestly better [...]

Wall Street US stocks were up for the fourth straight day yesterday as the 'risk on' trade returned to the market ahead of Monday's earnings season kick-off. However, many investors [...]

Wall Street US stocks were up for the fourth straight day yesterday as the 'risk on' trade returned to the market ahead of Monday's earnings season kick-off. At the close [...]

Wall Street US stocks held on to the previous day's gains yesterday as a positive jobs report and decent retail sales data helped ease worries about a potential double-dip recession. [...]

Wall Street US stocks held on to the previous day's gains yesterday as a positive jobs report and decent retail sales data helped ease worries about a potential double-dip recession. [...]