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...The ex gratia payments will cost the bank almost £7m on top of the £102m it paid under the flawed scheme, which reviewed 191 cases and was overseen by an independent reviewer, Russel Griggs....
...Overseen by an independent reviewer, Russel Griggs, it made awards worth £102m to 187 of the 191 companies’ directors it assessed over 18 months....
...The bank has asked Sir Ross Cranston, a law professor and retired judge, to examine the review it commissioned from professor Russel Griggs two years ago....
...Mr Edmonds’ lawyer, Jonathan Coad, said the deal with Therium meant the legal claim was now fully funded....
...Professor Russel Griggs, who was chosen by Lloyds to head the process of recompensing victims of the fraud, undertook consultancy work for the bank several years ago for which he was paid in the low tens...
...Jonathan Ford is the FT’s City editor Photographs: Thames Valley Police/PA Wire; Jack Latham; Charlie Bibby...
...Lloyds said: “We have appointed Professor Russel Griggs as the independent reviewer in the HBOS Reading customer case review....
...Lloyds has appointed its own assessor to consider complainants — Professor Russel Griggs. The problem is that he would not be the decision taker but merely the rubber stamp for the bank’s decisions....
...The bank has picked Professor Russel Griggs, an academic who is the UK’s independent reviewer of small business credit decisions....
...Executive Director, Alun Griffiths Ltd David Hayden Managing Director, Harris Pye (UK) Ltd Jay Hambro CIO/CEO, GFG Alliance/SIMEC Mark A Howell Engineering Sales Director, Goodwin International Russel...
...Director, St Modwen 95 Jon Miller Partner, Brunswick Group 96 Nick Major Chief Underwriting Officer, Zurich 97 Kevin Goodman Group Director, Organisation and Development, Babcock International 98 Russel...
...The family restaurant chain was co-founded by a married couple, Russel and Juliette Joffe, who will remain with the company....
...If awareness was higher, many more companies might apply for, and obtain, bank credit, according to Russel Griggs, the report’s author....
...The figure was revealed by Russel Griggs to the Financial Times in his first interview since taking charge of the independent external review of lending appeals....
...Russel Griggs, who chairs both the CBI’s SME committee and the DBT, said: “We will only succeed if we all sit round the same table.”...
...Russel Griggs, chairman of the CBI’s small business council, believes that the shortage of bank finance has in some ways been a good thing, because it has encouraged business owners to look elsewhere for...
...Russel Griggs, chairman of the CBI’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) council, said that it had been a “torrid” few months for smaller manufacturers....
...Russel Griggs, chairman of the CBI’s small and medium-sized enterprise council, said banks are still lending money but are taking longer to make decisions....
...Russel Griggs, chairman of the CBI’s SME council, said: “Although pockets of stronger performance do exist in the manufacturing world, it is a real concern that orders and output have fallen and are set...
...Russel Griggs, chairman of the CBI’s small business council, is among those who have lobbied for the change in central government procurement policy following a similar move by the Scottish parliament late...
...Russel Kinnel, director of funds analysis at Morningstar, says: “I do think the size is a concern. They're in uncharted waters with these funds of $60bn, $70bn.”...
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