Hints and tips:
...Anthony Goff, publisher of Hachette Audio, puts his doubts more bluntly: “To listen to a robot for 10 hours, it might drive you crazy.” Share your suggestions Any listening recommendations?...
...Having ploughed through some 140 submissions, the chair of the judging panel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, likened reading the novel to climbing Snowdon. Wonderful view when you finally got to the top....
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...Wine Owners’ board includes Anthony Thomson, the founder and former chairman of Metro Bank, the first new high street retail bank to open in a century, in 2010....
...“Branches are being reinvented, the death of the branch has been much exaggerated,” says Anthony Browne, head of the BBA....
...Anthony Browne, head of the BBA said: “The trouble at the moment – and indeed for the last five years – is that we’ve had this massive increase in capital amongst banks of £165bn during a time of low economic...
...Anthony Thomson, who set up Metro Bank in 2010 with co-founder Vernon Hill, said that in the past four years bank branches had become outdated. “The world has moved on....
...We’re complementary,” said Anthony Fobel, head of private lending at BlueBay....
...Responding to Mr Miliband’s plans, Anthony Browne, chief executive of the British Bankers’ Association, said: “Forcing people to change bank by selling their local branch is not what customers want.”...
...“These are the darkest days of the movement since the 1980s [when] co-operation could have become extinct,” says Anthony Webster, co-author of a new book on the Co-op....
...It has echoes of Barclays’ decision last year to appoint veteran City lawyer, Anthony Salz, to lead a review into the bank’s culture and business practices....
...Anthony Browne, chief executive of the British Bankers’ Association, said the commission’s review was the “most significant for a generation”....
...Anthony Browne, a Morgan Stanley executive and former adviser to Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, is on Tuesday expected to be named as the new head of the British Bankers’ Association....
...“It has all the hallmarks of an enlightened appointment,” said Anthony Belchambers, chief executive of the Futures & Options Association, representing banks and brokers in the derivatives markets in Europe...
...Anthony Thomson, chairman, said it was also expanding its commercial division “very quickly” after businesses had shown a greater appetite for better service than consumers....
...The bank will be chaired by Anthony Thomson, who founded a financial services marketing forum and Mr Hill is to be the vice-chairman....
...As the bank’s largest shareholder, Mr Hill initially planned to be chairman but towards the end of the application process handed that role to Anthony Thomson, a former marketing executive who persuaded...
...Mr Hill, who was previously investigated by US regulators over dealings at his former company, Commerce Bank, has stepped aside in favour of Anthony Thomson, the marketing executive who had initially been...
...The FSA is thought to have interviewed the board, including Mr Hill, its non-executive chairman, and Anthony Thomson, who will be vice-chairman....
...Anthony Thomson, who chairs the Financial Services Forum, an industry think- tank, will be vice-chairman and another principal shareholder....
...The bank is being backed by Vernon Hill, the US entrepreneur, and Anthony Thomson, a marketing executive....
...Additional reporting by Sharlene Goff...
...Meanwhile, Anthony Bolton, Fidelity Investments’ star fund manager, recommends “anything written by Peter Lynch or Warren Buffet”....
...We do have people that would be interested [in investing via syndicated Sipps],” said Anthony McKay, chief operating officer....
...How Anthony Burgess was waiting in a nearby London hotel on his big night, refusing to attend the dinner unless he’d won but ready to jump in a taxi just in case (1980, William Golding’s Rites of Passage...
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