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ExplainerMetro Bank
How Metro Bank’s challenging week unfolded
...“It’s terribly sad it’s come to this,” said Anthony Thomson, Metro’s co-founder, who stepped down as chair in 2012....
October 6, 2023
The Aesthete
Lauren Ridloff, the first deaf Marvel superhero, talks personal taste
...Vernon has taught me to fully embrace it. vernonfrancois.com In another life, I would have been a ballet dancer....
April 1, 2022
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
FT Magazine
The fight for the future of America’s local newspapers
...George Washington took out an advertisement in it to rent some of his land at Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson sued it for libel, and lost....
January 21, 2021
FT Magazine
What next for Uber? Inside the fight for its future
...A 73-year-old man named Vernon, a full-time Uber driver, said he couldn’t afford to care for his dying mother. Two other drivers held up a banner: “A thief lives here,” it read....
October 28, 2020
News in-depthBoris Johnson
Why is Boris Johnson such a divisive figure?
...“Boris is not a scholar but he’s an intellectual in that he understands language and culture and likes clever people,” said Sir Anthony....
July 23, 2019
Personal Finance
Investors Chronicle: Ferguson, James Halstead, Metro Bank
...Should the bank require an extension for those fundraising efforts, they will not be overseen by founder chairman Vernon Hill, whose departure from the bank’s board has now been set for December 31....
October 4, 2019
FT Live
Global Wealth Management Summit
Recalibrating business for multi-generational private clients
Wednesday, 6 November222 Marylebone Road, London NW1 6JQ, United Kingdom
News in-depthCorporate governance
Metro Bank’s dealings with chairman’s wife in spotlight
...The result was co-founder Anthony Thomson becoming chairman and Mr Hill its vice-chairman....
June 8, 2018
Vernon Bogdanor
David Cameron’s legacy will go deeper than the Europe question
...Despite the outcome of the EU referendum, his legacy is unlikely to be defined by Europe as Anthony Eden’s is by the Suez crisis of 1956. The Tories were in a parlous state in 2005....
July 13, 2016
US & Canadian companies
CSX shares soar as rail industry veteran takes aim
...Anthony Hatch of ABH Consulting, a rail analyst, said Mr Harrison’s move would not necessarily lead to further consolidation. “This is not a covert M&A attempt,” he said....
January 19, 2017
Robert Shrimsley
A Davos for Donald Trump — do it in Dagenham, mate
...The vintage clarets evening may be lost, but Paul Nuttall, the new Ukip leader, will host a “superb stouts” night in the Admiral Vernon pub....
December 2, 2016
FT AlphavilleKadhim Shubber
A brief look at Metro Bank’s offer document
...In it, for example, we discover the claim that chairman Vernon Hill “sold Commerce Bank to TD Bank Financial in 2007 for $8.5bn”. Except there may be another way of narrating those events....
February 10, 2016
Letter
Credit the vibrant work of Johnny Dewe Mathews
...Anthony Vernon London SW11, UK...
November 6, 2015
Life & Arts
The art of hand drawn map-making
...Photographs: Simon Vernon; Alex Ramsey; Burghley House/National Portrait Gallery; Burghley House; James Byatt; Anthony Pelly; Christopher Jeney; Cartography.co.uk...
April 6, 2016
Brexit
UK financial sector targets Swiss-style deal for EU market access
...Bogdanor EU-Swiss trade deal on life insurance does not exist / From Prof David Howarth Banks want to maintain full access to EU market / From Anthony Browne...
August 18, 2016
FT Magazine
‘Love & Friendship’: What Whit Stillman did next
...And Anthony Perkins.” I tell him these were movie stars. Some people might be flattered. “I was not flattered.”...
May 13, 2016
FT Live
Global Banking Summit
The world's top gathering of leaders in finance
Tuesday, 3 DecemberLondon, UK
At Home with the FT
Architect Chris Wilkinson on his work, art and London’s skyline
...Photographs: Rob Greig Letter in response to this article: Credit the vibrant work of Johnny Dewe Mathews / From Anthony Vernon...
October 30, 2015
UK banks
Founder of Metro Bank to go digital
...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....
April 9, 2014
UK banks
BBA details plans for checking standards
...According to Anthony Browne, the British Banking Association (BBA) chief executive, self-regulation cannot continue....
January 15, 2013
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
The wine race
...Beaucastel, Vieilles Vignes 2011 • Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rhône • Marquis de Laguiche 2008 Le Montrachet, Burgundy • Egon Müller, Scharzhofberger Auslese 1987 Mosel, Germany • Georges Vernay, Coteau de Vernon...
March 8, 2013
UK banks
Metro Bank plans expansion and listing
...Mr Hill, who was already vice-chairman, replaces Anthony Thomson, a co-founder of Metro....
January 1, 2013
News in-depthUK Budget
Finance men who altered course of history
...Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894 Sir William Vernon Harcourt, chancellor under William Gladstone, sought to address what he saw as an injustice in the tax system that appeared to favour owners of large...
March 24, 2011
UK banks
Metro Bank speeds growth
...Vernon Hill, the bank’s co-founder and vice-chairman, is the largest shareholder, owning just over a fifth of the bank....
December 13, 2010
US & Canadian companies
Fresh details in Starbucks’ Kraft dispute
...In Monday’s filing, Starbucks cites a January 2010 e-mail sent by Anthony Vernon, a senior Kraft executive, to Mr Schultz, apologising for Kraft’s performance and admitting that the relationship was “very...
December 28, 2010
UK schools
New year honours list
...Anthony Reilly, former director, British Council in Iraq. Stuart Rutherford, microfinance adviser. Piers Sellers, astronaut....
December 31, 2010
UK banks
Metro Bank buys two London branches
...He will be vice-chairman of the bank, while Anthony Thomson, a marketing executive, will become chairman....
April 10, 2010

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