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...Martyn Goff, the prize’s administrator for over three decades, was a master of media manipulation and juicy, publicity-generating leaks....
...and Carlos Lazo created between them a strange oeuvre of underground architecture which soaks up influences from Indigenous iconography, Antoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright and his students, notably Bruce Goff...
...Douglas Flint wrote to George Osborne, UK chancellor, as well as the Bank of England governor and senior regulators, expressing concern over a potential clash of regulatory demands....
...HSBC last week abandoned an earlier offer to pay Douglas Flint a one-off bonus of up to £2.25m in shares....
...Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, this week warned that the fear of regulatory punishment was deterring staff from taking reasonable risks....
...The earnings report comes after it emerged Douglas Flint, HSBC chairman, has written to chancellor George Osborne suggesting that the timetable for ring-fencing British retail banks by 2018 should be extended...
...Earlier this month Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, called for a pause to the Vickers process given the UK had also launched an investigation into competition in the banking sector....
...Commenting on her appointment, Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, said: “Kathy brings with her a wealth of experience of financial services regulation gained at a key time in the evolution of the sector, which...
...Presenting the bank’s half-year results from Hong Kong, Douglas Flint, chairman, also warned that a new European Union cap on bonuses – due to take effect next year – would have a “highly damaging impact...
....” ——————————————- Letters in response to this article: Lloyds customers pay more than their fair share of charges / From Mr Douglas French ‘Profit’ on Lloyds sale an erroneous spin/ From Mr James Anderson...
...But Douglas Carswell, a Conservative backbencher, disagrees with the plan put forward by his party colleagues....
...People who were sacking late July are now hiring,” says Douglas McWilliams, executive chairman of the Centre for Economic and Business Research....
...Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, said on Thursday: “Sandy has served the bank with dedication and distinction in a 37-year career spanning both developed and emerging markets....
...Also taking a robust stance, Douglas Flint, HSBC chairman, said there was a “misunderstanding about what banks lend for” – funding companies’ working capital, premises expansion or acquisitions was fine....
...When HSBC promoted Douglas Flint and Stuart Gulliver, two of its longest-serving senior directors, to run the bank last year the clear message was one of continuity....
...Amid fears that the commission would propose sweeping changes that would handicap the sector, senior bankers such as Bob Diamond, Barclays chief executive, and Douglas Flint, HSBC chairman, stepped up threats...
...Regulators should include more than 80 banks in their list of global financial institutions of systemic importance that need tighter regulation and higher capital requirements, Douglas Flint, chairman of...
...However, Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, took the opposing view, arguing that too narrow an approach risked reducing the supply of credit in the economy as loans would be “dislocated” from deposits....
...Douglas Flint, chairman, told the Financial Times: “Many in the public policy area want banks to show lower volatility and lower returns....
...Douglas Flint, the new chairman, described this as a worst-case scenario that does not take into account action by management to mitigate the impact or the benefit of a phased implementation....
...Douglas Flint told a Treasury committee on Tuesday that while the bank was not trying to leave London – which he said was still more competitive than any other city in the world – it had to consider pressures...
...Douglas Flint, chairman, said recently that the inevitable repercussion of full-scale subsidiarisation – forcing banks to put operations such as retail banking, investment banking or asset management in...
...Douglas Flint, HSBC’s finance director who is to take over as chairman next year, said that once artificially low interest rates in Britain began to rise, there was a risk that a swathe of consumers would...
...Additional reporting by Sharlene Goff...
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