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...One answer is that all three are led by ethnic minority leaders: António Costa, Leo Varadkar, and Rishi Sunak....
...Paul Weiss has hired Miko Bradford as chief operating officer and senior legal counsel to its debt finance and high-yield group in London....
...But what is striking about Suleyman’s heavily promoted book is how the optimism of his will is overwhelmed by the pessimism of his intellect, to borrow a phrase from the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci...
...To Abbey National it added two more former building societies in 2008 — Alliance & Leicester and the remains of Bradford & Bingley....
...I speak to Jose Antonio [Alvarez, group CEO] all the time . . . if anything, that helps create more capacity to focus,” said Mr Bostock....
...The role brought the opportunity to work closely with government, at the head of one of the only lenders able to buy stricken rivals Alliance & Leicester and part of Bradford & Bingley in 2008....
...António Horta-Osório, chief executive, has shed billions of pounds of toxic assets, replaced precarious short-term funding with deposits and slashed costs....
...Mr Horta-Osório has a record of doing shrewd acquisitions in the past, such as the crisis-era purchases of Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley when he ran Santander UK....
...The government’s attempts to dispose of its 73 per cent stake in RBS and £17.5bn of loans issued by defunct lender Bradford & Bingley will also be pushed back....
...Nor is Antonio Roman, who has been promoted to replace Mr Jones....
...The UK division of the Spanish bank was formed from the acquisitions of Abbey National in 2004 and Alliance & Leicester and part of Bradford & Bingley in 2008....
...The TSB acquisition will mark one of the largest overseas takeovers of a UK lender since Santander bought part of Bradford & Bingley in 2008 and Alliance and Leicester in 2009....
...Despite not being CEO when the rate rigging took place, Lloyds boss António Horta-Osório duly made the sort of contrite noises to be expected, noting that the board and management team “have taken vigorous...
...When CEO António Horta-Osório first set aside billions of pounds for missold payment protection insurance claims, investors may have thought that was the end of it....
...Lloyds chief executive António Horta-Osório said in a statement: I am pleased that the government intends to sell a further stake in Lloyds Banking Group and allow taxpayers to get more of their money back...
...If only all Lloyds Banking Group chief executive António Horta-Osório needed to do to attract yield-seeking investors was talk up the UK economy....
...Before he left Santander UK to become Lloyds Banking Group’s chief executive, António Horta-Osório invested in a vast portfolio of bonds that acted as a proprietary bet on falling interest rates....
...Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire, by Martin Fletcher, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 Fletcher was 12 when he went with his father, brother, uncle and grandfather to watch Bradford City play football on...
...António de Magalhães Cardoso, partner, Vieira De Almeida António de Magalhães Cardoso’s work on patent enforcement in the Portuguese administrative courts features in the Dispute Resolution category in...
...The following week Antonio Moschitta of the University of Perugia gave a lecture on the management of information systems....
...“The UK economy has not been in great shape over recent years, but these companies are not taking decisions with a short-term view,” says José Antonio Zamora, economic and trade counsellor at the Spanish...
...Lex's Vincent Boland and Richard Stovin-Bradford discuss what António Horta-Osório, chief executive, needs to do consign the bad bank part to history....
...The strategy is an interesting about-turn for Mr Horta-Osório, who in his previous role as head of Santander UK had spent his time extinguishing the Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley brands...
...Lex's Vincent Boland and Richard Stovin-Bradford discuss Lloyds' moving targets and the implications for the banking sector and UK economy....
...There had been some speculation that he may mirror the strategy at Santander, which merged the Abbey, Alliance and Leicester and Bradford & Bingley brands....
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