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...The US broadsheet has been searching for a new permanent head since the departure this summer of Fred Ryan, who had been chief executive and publisher for almost a decade....
...Russian oligarchs set sail Fred Schwed posed a simple question in 1955 with the title of his classic book dissecting Wall Street: Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?...
...“A more cynical take is that the US wants to leave the door open for LNG because of its own export plans, but we simply can’t afford this,” said Bronwen Tucker, research analyst at an environmental group...
...Paul Tucker: Friends in high places Paul Tucker, the former Bank of England deputy governor, has an influence that goes far beyond the City, through his role as chair of the Systemic Risk Council....
...You could do mass planting with machines that cut slits in the ground, says team co-ordinator Fred Miller, “but we do it with a bit more TLC.”...
...Gideon’s homecoming forces Meg – the fierce Rachel Tucker – to choose between Arthur and Gideon....
...Sir Fred Goodwin and Chuck Prince, the men who led RBS and Citigroup to near-collapse, have become pariahs of the financial sector. The same cannot be said of Mr Sullivan, the former AIG boss....
...too seriously: Next Bank Of England Governor 3/1 Paul Tucker 7/2 John Varley 4/1 Adair Turner 4/1 Gus O’Donnell 5/1 Stephen Green 5/1 Jim O’Neill 10/1 Mark...
...“If only someone had curbed Fred the Shred’s ambitions in the same way....
...Dalton plays banjo and sings the folk standards that were the core of her repertoire along with songs by their Greenwich Village peers Fred Neil and Tim Hardin....
...That evening, the only disappointment was that Sir Fred Goodwin, RBS chief executive, was unable to host the governor at dinner....
...However, one person familiar with the matter said: “Fred is keen to set up a fund like all the Goldman China bankers before him.”...
...Other senior executives at global banks who have been approached by Beijing to work for Chinese state-controlled institutions include Fred Hu, the former Greater China chairman at Goldman Sachs who recently...
...However, Fred Crawford, chief executive of Alix Partners, said Asian companies focused on the US or European consumer needed to prepare for tough years ahead....
...Contractually, Sir Fred is entitled to his full pension. But Sir Fred should have offered to take a cut earlier....
...He said that one of his early moves in the job was to call Sir Fred and suggest that he might want to make a “gesture”. Sir Philip added: “Fred has been mulling that over.”...
...Among the best are Peter Capaldi (Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It and In The Loop) or presenter Terry Christian to play Andy Hornby; Michael Caine as Sir Fred Goodwin....
...The sale signalled how RBS’s aggressive international expansion under Sir Fred Goodwin, its former chief executive, is being reversed after the bail-out, which left the government with a near-70 per cent...
...Sir Fred Goodwin, Mr Hester’s predecessor, was proud to have stolen a march on his rivals in 2005 by securing a strategic partnership with China’s second-largest bank, which spawned joint ventures in private...
...Sir Fred was ousted last October as part of a £20bn ($30bn) capital injection by the British government which left it with a 57.9 per cent stake in RBS....
...bank’s future – suggesting a significant unwinding of the expansion that has characterised Sir Fred’s eight years as chief executive....
...The sale signals how RBS’s aggressive international expansion under Sir Fred Goodwin, its former chief executive, is being reversed after the bail-out, which left the government with a 57 per cent shareholding...
...Fred Hu managed it at Goldman Sachs, where he swapped his role as the bank’s China economist to become one of its senior mainland bankers....
...Paul Tucker, the head of markets at the Bank of England, warned in December: “We must try to avoid a vicious circle in which tighter liquidity conditions, lower asset values, impaired capital resources,...
...Sir Fred expected regional headcount to grow a further 30 per cent this year and at a similar rate until 2009. He ruled out acquisitions in Asia for the foreseeable future....
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