Hints and tips:
...Bruce Goff, an eccentric, organic and wacky acolyte of Frank Lloyd Wright, is often credited with getting there first....
...Lloyd Wright and his students, notably Bruce Goff and outsider art, particularly Ferdinand Cheval, the French postman who self-built his eccentric castle in Hauterives....
...Nicolas Le Goff, author of the guidebook Another Paris, adds that at this early stage you can disarm Parisians with a smile, because it’s so unexpected....
...On sale through Goffs Country, the guide price is €2.25m....
...“Without sweeping rule changes that would take in all the private banks, I doubt this will really cool the market,” said Simon Gammon of Knight Frank Finance....
...Simon Gammon at Knight Frank Finance, another broker, estimated that the same three had accounted for at least 50 per cent of London home loans in recent months....
...The former chairman of the CBI business group and previous editor of the Financial Times is frank about the difficult path he must tread between keeping the banks on board and maintaining credible independence...
...Goff worked for a while for his hero Frank Lloyd Wright who advised him not to study architecture formally, as it would spoil exactly the individuality and talent which made him such a distinctive designer...
...In the US, the relevant Dodd-Frank Act is still to come into force. But a limited number of US investment banks have nevertheless been pushing ahead on the issue....
...In the US, regulators have pressed for similar rules to be included in the Dodd-Frank reforms, although these are yet to be finalised....
...The chairman’s support for the former chief executive wavered at the Treasury committee this week, when he refused to defend Mr Diamond’s version of recent events, which conflicted with his own more frank...
...Liam Bailey, head of residential research at estate agents Knight Frank, says: “London’s status as the world’s wealth capital has been enhanced rather than diminished by the crisis.”...
...In a frank description of his illness, Mr Horta-Osório tells how his sleeping difficulties began in September, as fears grew about the deepening eurozone crisis and UK banks awaited reforms from the Independent...
...“[Looking at] other financial centres – the US has Dodd Frank, the eurozone the financial transaction tax and Asia has political issues. The UK is a fantastic place to be located.”...
...The move to central clearing of OTC derivatives – a key requirement of Dodd-Frank and Emir – has led to questions over the robustness of clearing houses, or central counterparties (CCPs), as well as a new...
...The 2011 Wealth Report, to be published on Wednesday by Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank, shows that Shanghai, Mumbai and Beijing are expected to shoot up the rankings by 2020, outpacing western rivals...
...Citigroup was the only big US banking group to submit a response, comparing the commission’s work to the US government’s financial reform legislation, known as the Dodd-Frank act....
...Additional reporting by Sharlene Goff...
...Meanwhile, Sir Win Bischoff, Lloyds’ chairman, showed his frustration in a frank statement highlighting the importance of being able to pay bonuses without the recipient feeling under pressure to waive them...
...While it may irk veteran private bankers, it is a characteristically frank assessment from an executive who spent 18 years in investment banking at JPMorgan before becoming one of the first employees at...
...Nevertheless, Knight Frank has reported a 23 per cent increase in applicants in the last quarter....
...I think they’re headed down that route and even though the implementation of Dodd Frank has been quite disappointing, I think they’ll head down that route....
...Barney Frank, chairman of the House financial services committee, meanwhile, revealed that he would hold new hearings into executive compensation....
...Average rental yields are now just below 4 per cent, according to Knight Frank....
...“The spring market didn’t really happen at all,” said Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight Frank....
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