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...The UK lender will have a new chair, Rick Haythornthwaite, from April 15 after the end of the term of former Financial Services Authority chair Sir Howard Davies....
...The bank’s chair Sir Howard Davies was the target of investor frustration after his failed attempt to keep chief executive Dame Alison Rose in place even after she admitted discussing Farage’s finances with...
...Jeffrey Talpins’ Element Capital, one of the world’s biggest macro hedge funds, is planning to shrink its asset base in an effort to improve performance after a run of poor returns, including losing more...
...“This report sets out a number of serious failings in the treatment of Mr Farage,” said NatWest chair Howard Davies. “We apologise once again to Mr Farage for how he has been treated.”...
...Farage called on Rose as well as Peter Flavel (the chief executive of Coutts) and Howard Davies (the chair of NatWest) to resign....
...The closure of the Coutts bank account of Nigel Farage, a pro-Brexit commentator and former politician, has snowballed into a political avalanche in the UK....
...Chair Howard Davies vowed to stand behind her, assuring her of his “full confidence” in a statement on Tuesday. But eight hours later, in the dead of night, his support had withered....
...“This report sets out a number of serious failings in the treatment of Mr Farage,” said NatWest chair Sir Howard Davies....
...The world that we live in is very much the one Howard made....
...NatWest chair Howard Davies said he plans to continue leading the bank and has appointed law firm Travers Smith to investigate the closure of Nigel Farage’s account....
...It’s a shame it took Nigel Farage for them to do it.”...
...He replaces Sir Howard Davies who steps down at the end of his term just as the bank undertakes an ambitious reorganisation US: IMF and World Bank start their spring meeting Results: Charles Schwab Q1,...
...Or, as some prefer to put it, time for DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson’s “Trimble moment”....
...Coutts chief executive Peter Flavel has stepped down, saying that he bore “ultimate” responsibility for the bank’s treatment of former UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage....
...NatWest chief executive Dame Alison Rose has stepped down after admitting to the inaccurate briefing of a BBC journalist about the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account....
...The bank’s chair Howard Davies, who backed Rose on Tuesday, is now facing pressure to step down....
...Rose had been backed by the NatWest board, and its chair Sir Howard Davies, despite an error of judgment in supporting the termination of former Ukip leader Nigel Farage as a client of private banking arm...
...The Wall Street bank agreed to a $290mn settlement with accusers of the deceased paedophile Jeffrey Epstein last month....
...Haythornthwaite is set to join NatWest’s board in January before taking over in April when Sir Howard Davies’s term expires....
...Banks have faced lawsuits in the US when they have failed to sever banking relationships with disgraced customers — notably with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
...Downing Street and the Treasury have raised concerns over NatWest’s leadership after chief executive Dame Alison Rose admitted being the source of an inaccurate story on the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank...
...private banking arm of government-backed lender NatWest now finds itself uncomfortably thrust into the spotlight after deciding to cut ties with one of the country’s most divisive and combative figures, Nigel...
...In the 1980s he was a special adviser to then chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson....
...had closed the account of former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage....
...Nigel Farage, the former Brexit party leader, has revealed that Coutts has offered to allow him to keep his accounts at the bank, in what would amount to a full climbdown by the embattled institution....
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