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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....
...In its order intake, Nucera snagged contracts from Swedish producer H2 Green Steel, and from a Shell project in the Netherlands. That is helpful....
...There is provision for a legal linkage deal in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, but it would come at a cost in terms of lost control for the UK, as Sam Lowe at Flint Global explains here....
...Unless there is significant UK-EU reintegration, then businesses will have to adjust to the fact that trade across the Channel is going to get increasingly difficult.” said Sam Lowe, partner at consultancy Flint...
...Flint Global consultant Josh Buckland said the government could help developers by explaining well in advance how maximum bid prices will be set....
...But, noted Sam Lowe, director of trade policy at Flint Global, the TRA effectively stood by the methodology and results of its original analysis....
...Sam Lowe, a trade expert at consultancy Flint Global, wrote that the soured political relationship between London and Brussels over the Northern Ireland protocol had exacerbated the commission’s refusal...
...Sam Lowe, a trade expert at consultancy Flint Global, said: “The TRA was set up to be pure and rational and pro-liberalisation, but the domestic political economy has got in the way of that vision.”...
...This would open the door wider to the EU taking retaliatory action such as tariffs against the US, said Sam Lowe, a partner at consultancy Flint Global. But the process would take at least a year....
...Indeed, the news this week that traders in Great Britain have been warned by HM Customs & Revenue they will need to pay 25 per cent tariffs on some types of steel going to NI provides another stick with...
...After his predecessor John Flint was sacked several years ago when the board decided his own turnround plan lacked ambition, the HSBC boss pulled off one of the largest overhauls in the 157-year-old bank...
...As Alex White of the consultancy Flint Global drily puts it, “there’s a high political beta on these issues at the moment”....
...Mr Quinn has showed greater steel than predecessor John Flint, cutting costs by 7 per cent in the quarter. Deposits grew. The bank’s long-run tilt into China is producing results....
...Flos, for example, now offers a version of Barber Osgerby’s Bellhop lamp alongside Michael Anastassiades’s Captain Flint floor and wall lights....
...Jingye owns British Steel, while China Investment Corporation has taken stakes in Heathrow, National Grid and Thames Water....
...Walking away is less likely to be terminal to CGN’s nuclear export ambitions, said Josh Buckland, a former government energy adviser who is now a director at consultancy Flint Global....
...But there remains the entertainer’s innate response to the metaphoric sound of iceberg against steel prow — not panic, or bolting for the nearest VIP lifeboat, but playing on like the Titanic’s fabled house...
...HSBC said its Greater China head was resigning from the bank, in the second high-profile departure from the lender in a week following the ousting of chief executive John Flint....
...On McCalla’s own Creole composition “Mize Pa Dous”, shot through with Andre Michot’s woozy lap steel guitar, she sings “Tout la jounen m’ap travay/Tout la jounen, m’ap bouriké”: all day long I work like...
...Event chaired by Nathan Brooker Buy tickets here The old kitchen was divided into this tall living room, and a master bedroom was set above new steel beams and a plasterboard ceiling....
...No blue plaque or memorial today marks the site of its former headquarters on Leadenhall Street in the City of London, which lies buried beneath the foundations of Richard Rogers’s glass-and-steel Lloyd’...
...Germans warn on high residential property prices Corporate earnings HSBC announces first-half results, with investors focused on whether Europe’s biggest bank can deliver on new chief executive John Flint...
...It provided a solution to checking the time in the dark, which was then an ordeal requiring flint, steel, spark, tinder and attendant paraphernalia....
...Richard Flint, chief executive of Leeds-based Skybet, and regional chairman of the CBI, said politicians should drop their dreams....
...Over a glass of minerally Flint Valley, she describes the promise of English wine. “Each year, these wines will win awards,” she says....
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