03 March 2016 HSBC A difficult balancing act. by John Watson “Go on, then. A little closer to the edge. It’s ages since anyone fell off the cliffs, so it must all be pretty safe. No, don’t take any notice of the warning signs. Experts are always much too conservative. Just try a little further.… Continue reading Issue 43: 2016 03 03: HSBC (John Watson)
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Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial
28 January 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ROOMS TO RENT: 50 CENTS: Not if the Chancellor has anything to do with it. The Treasury produced squeals of pain and anger when it changed the tax regime on mortgages taken by private landlords to acquire buy-to-let property, limiting landlords on how much loan… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
3 September 2015 Week in Brief :BUSINESS AND THE CITY PESTS: One of British commerce’s less known success stories is Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 250 company which specialises in office services of all types – from paper towel supply to rat catching to full facilities management. It had a long record, over 25 years,… Continue reading Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Manners Maketh Man
23 July 2015 Manners Maketh Man by J R Thomas It’s getting to be a very dangerous world, the modern financial industry (even if not like the appalling days of 1970’s Germany where several bankers were kidnapped and killed by the Baader-Meinhoff gang, the self-proclaimed Red Army Faction who terrorised the West German government and… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Manners Maketh Man
