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...A Scottish banker whose appointment was overseen by chair Sir Douglas Flint, Bird was raised in Motherwell, a steel town south of Glasgow, and rose to hold the top consumer banking role at Citigroup....
...Proof is provided by the verbiage this has occasioned: Ron Kalifa, Jonathan Hill, Mark Austin and Douglas Flint are among the luminaries to steer government-commissioned reports....
...The outcome of Sir Douglas Flint’s review into digitisation of the UK’s shareholding system will have to grapple with the legacy of past failures....
...The list of advisers includes Sir Douglas Flint, chair of Abrdn; Sir Ron Kalifa, independent director at the Bank of England; Baroness Shriti Vadera, chair of Prudential; Sir John Kingman, chair of Legal...
...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
...The interim report from Sir Douglas Flint’s Digitisation Taskforce that came out this week should help address some of these issues....
...Enter stage right, Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer who measured in dollars is the undisputed legal leader of the #MeToo movement....
...Sir Douglas Flint, chair of fund manager Abrdn, said that a functioning democracy required trust in its leaders....
...Sir Douglas Flint, chair of Abrdn, added: “There is no doubt that one of the factors making the UK less competitive as a market for listings and talent is its current complexity and restrictions on remuneration...
...Muhtar Kent, former Coca-Cola chief executive, and Douglas Flint, ex-chairman of HSBC, are among the business leaders who sit on its international advisory board....
...Sir Douglas Flint, chair of asset manager Abrdn, said money going into UK equities was declining because the amount flowing into defined contribution schemes was “significantly below” the amount that historically...
...He stood up for civilian control of government against the would-be warrior-king General Douglas MacArthur....
...Douglas Flint, chair of asset manager Abrdn, said the failings at Credit Suisse and SVB were “basic and it seems recognised but not acted upon”....
...And even at Electric Power Development (also known as J-Power), which rate the highest support rate among these companies for climate proposals submitted by non-governmental organisations and activist investors...
...Sir Douglas Flint, who was chair of the financial services group between 2011 and 2017, said lifting the restriction would mean banks could give lower base salaries with a higher variable pay, reducing banks...
...Abrdn’s chair Sir Douglas Flint and Schroders chief executive Peter Harrison are among the top City figures underscoring the importance of remuneration to attract top talent....
...Douglas Flint, former chair of HSBC, said at the time that removing the cap “won’t impact the amount of pay” that bankers receive and that the sector would, in fact, have “lower fixed costs because base...
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...Four weeks ago, Philip Dybvig, Douglas Diamond et al won the Riksbank Prize....
...Douglas Flint, lucky enough to be both chair of Abrdn and heading a new digitisation task force, has the job of changing that....
...Former HSBC chair Sir Douglas Flint said that although axing the bonus cap “won’t impact the amount of pay” bankers receive, the sector would “have lower fixed costs because base salaries will not be as...
...Those interviewed included Abrdn’s Sir Douglas Flint, Paul Manduca of St James’s Place, The Sage Group’s Andrew Duff, HSBC’s Mark Tucker, Sir Donald Brydon of Tide Holdings and Annette Court of Admiral Group...
...“We’ve found that people are increasingly coming to the skilled trades after they go to college,” says the union’s general president Douglas J McCarron....
...Chair Sir Douglas Flint meanwhile is closely tied to Bird: his hire, who Flint knew from banking. But boards always back bosses, right up until the point they don’t....
...For resident Joe Douglas, representing his fellow leaseholders in the case, the battle is personal....
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