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...Brian Netter, who last week represented the justice department before Pitman, argued the new law was a scheme “designed to work through deterrence . . ....
...“To paraphrase the late great Sir Brian Pitman, sometimes some markets don’t produce any winners"....
...In many ways, Mr Horta-Osório was following the lead of one of his predecessors, Brian Pitman. Sir Brian flirted with big acquisitions, trying to buy first Midland Bank and then Standard Chartered....
...Sir Brian Pitman was never keen that someone should steal his thunder, and the heir apparent and a worthy successor on Sir Brian’s retirement, John Dawson, was torpedoed by Sir Brian and left the bank....
...Mr Pitman adds: “International students should be an absolute underpinning of the whole Northern Powerhouse agenda that the chancellor is pushing.”...
...By the mid-1980s Lloyds was past the worst and, in tandem with Sir Brian Pitman, his chief executive, Morse set about transforming the bank into an industry leader....
...Above all, he puts the takeover in the context of the strategic challenges faced by Lloyds since Sir Brian Pitman, a legendary chief executive and chairman, set an example there that helped reorient British...
...The late Sir Brian Pitman of Lloyds, exemplar of the astute high street banker, carefully avoided “merchant banking”, as it was then known, as being too much trouble....
...Under Sir Brian Pitman’s leadership it was a well focussed (albeit overvalued) predominantly UK retail business....
...Those funds had previously approached Sir Brian Pitman, the widely respected banker and former Lloyds chairman, to head NBNK, but he died last year....
...He recalls advising the late Sir Brian Pitman, former head of Lloyds TSB, on the bank’s director development programme....
...Chancellor George Osborne joined Bank of England governor Mervyn King and HSBC chairman Stephen Green at St Paul’s Cathedral for a memorial service for Sir Brian Pitman, the former chairman and chief executive...
...In a funny coincidence several recruiters including Anna Mann, doyenne of City headhunters, were seen at former Lloyds’ chief and chairman Sir Brian Pitman’s memorial service last week, attended by Lloyds...
...A thanksgiving service for Sir Brian Pitman, former chief executive of Lloyds TSB and leading banker of his generation, will be held next week in St Paul’s Cathedral....
...First Virgin Money managed to lure the late Sir Brian Pitman as its chairman, now City grandees Lord Levene, 68, and 70-year-old Sir David Walker are eyeing the market....
...Sir Brian Pitman, the veteran retail banker, is to become chairman of Virgin Money, in a move that will boost the newly licensed group’s assault on the UK’s high street banks....
...Sir Brian Pitman, the former chairman and chief executive of Lloyds TSB and one of the most respected bankers of his generation, has died suddenly at the age of 78....
...Sir Brian Pitman, the veteran retail banker, is to become chairman of Virgin Money, in a move that will take the newly licensed group a step further in its assault on the UK’s established high street banks...
...Virgin Money’s new chairman Brian Pitman said on Monday he is interested in buying Lloyds and RBS branches if the locations are right, reports Reuters....
...- Virgin Money announces offer for Church House Trust, Sir Brian Pitman becomes chairman – statement, FT....
...Brian Clemens, screenwriter. Paul Conway, senior vice-president, Cargill. Wendy Cope, poet. Fiona Cruickshank, director, SCM Pharma. Simon Gage, director, Edinburgh Science Festival....
...Virgin Money is expected to look for a new chairman following the death of Sir Brian Pitman....
...Pitman, former CEO and chairman of Lloyds TSB; and Sir David Scholey, former chairman and CEO of SG Warburg....
...Sir Brian Pitman, the former chairman of Lloyds Bank, is considering backing a number of new banking ventures, as entrepreneurs queue up to try their hand at challenging the dominance of the Big Four banks...
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