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...Chief executive Amanda Blanc, an advocate of insurers using their financial firepower to invest in social infrastructure and climate-friendly projects, shared the plan in an interview with the Financial...
...The LSE’s then interim chief executive Denzil Jenkins hailed the listing as a “milestone for [SDIC Power’s] business”....
...Patrick Jenkins is deputy editor of the Financial Times Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter Letter in response to this article: It’s OK to say a female boss is not ‘...
...You do not prepare for comments like that’ Amanda Blanc, the boss of British insurer Aviva, this month became a social media sensation after calling out the casual sexism of some of her investors at the...
...In 2020, former bankers Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris, and Richard Boath were acquitted of criminal charges five months into the trial....
...Amanda Staveley has lost her High Court case against Barclays, despite the judge ruling that the bank was “guilty of serious deceit” towards her investment firm, PCP Capital Partners, over a 2008 fundraising...
...A spokesperson for Ms Blanc said: “Amanda is adamant that she will not discuss the reasons for her decision, except to say that it was only arrived at after long and careful consideration....
...Barclays has traded blows with Amanda Staveley’s firm, PCP, accusing the financier of “obvious embellishment and invention”, as her lawsuit against the bank entered its final stages....
...Roger Jenkins apologised to financier Amanda Staveley for calling her a “tart” and admitted that his then wife Diana had been “jealous” of the press coverage of her role in a 2008 fundraising by Barclays...
...Barclays accused Amanda Staveley of “simply inventing” part of her evidence as the businesswoman was cross-examined for a fourth day in a High Court trial....
...He was giving evidence to the High Court as the bank defends a £1.5bn lawsuit brought against it by financier Amanda Staveley’s investment firm PCP, over its 2008 fundraising with Qatar....
...Mr Jenkins then told Mr Boath: “Well, I am — you know, I’m going to call the tart; I was going to call the tart.” Mr Boath asked: “Who’s the tart?” Mr Jenkins replied: “Amanda.”...
...The court was also shown a November 2008 email from Roger Jenkins, head of Barclays in the Middle East at the time, to Bob Diamond, then Barclays president, in which Mr Jenkins complained that “Amanda gets...
...Barclays has been ordered by London’s High Court to disclose more than 1,000 documents to Amanda Staveley’s PCP Capital Partners ahead of a high-profile £1.5bn civil trial next week over the bank’s 2008...
...The former head of a top banking lobby group used lewd and offensive language to describe financier Amanda Staveley, the High Court has heard....
...Amanda Staveley’s PCP Capital is suing Barclays for alleged deceit over its arrangements with Qatar, which it relied on for fresh capital during two emergency fundraisings in 2008 worth £11.8bn....
...“Amanda gets all the limelight,” Mr Jenkins wrote. The case continues....
...The UK bank is defending a £1.5bn civil lawsuit brought against it by PCP, financier Amanda Staveley’s investment firm, over its 2008 fundraising with Qatar....
...Mr Varley added that the departure of Roger Jenkins, former chairman of Barclays’ Middle Eastern business, in 2009 “damaged the capacity of the bank to exploit the ASAs” because Mr Jenkins had “a unique...
...Jenkins has even made his wife Amanda “chief impact officer” with a focus on doing good in the neighbourhood. The business has been growing fast and now has 500 staff and some big-name clients....
...Amanda Blanc: Portfolio woman Amanda Blanc doesn’t mess about. The former Axa and Zurich exec, who left the Swiss insurer this year, has taken on her third new job in a fortnight....
...Former banker sorry for Staveley ‘tart’ remark Former Barclays banker Roger Jenkins apologised for calling financier Amanda Staveley a “tart” in testimony in front of London’s High Court and said his then...
...Roger Jenkins, Barclays’ former chairman of investment banking in the Middle East, is also expected to testify....
...The insurer has appointed Amanda Blanc, a non-executive at the group and former executive at Zurich and Axa, as its new boss....
...It still faces an outstanding £1bn lawsuit over claims of deceit by the firm founded by Amanda Staveley, the financier who orchestrated Abu Dhabi’s investment into the October fundraising....
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