Hints and tips:
...“If you look at any index, any platform, you’d expect that [private investor share] to be higher,” Lloyd’s chief executive John Neal told the Financial Times....
...The Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires is the most exclusive and secretive networking club in European finance, where bank bosses rub shoulders with guests from presidents and prime ministers to royalty...
...He’d talk and then at the end, like what did we get out of that? I don’t think we got anything out of it. I think that was their goal.”...
...“If it was a banking brand, they’d be top of the [customer satisfaction] table.”...
...Today’s team would be under no illusions whatsoever about what to do on a final-day run chase — they’d play for a win, and to hell with the consequences....
...On the one hand, this similarity is all very teenage and romantic, “as if they’d had an understanding for years”....
...I’d dared to hope he’d come back as a chef, which is how I wanted to remember him. Instead, he’s here as a brand extension....
...At its current bargain price, we’d argue GSK appears worth the risk....
...On Saturday night, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said he was sending a group led by the USS Dwight D Eisenhower “as part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening...
...*fixed, we’d forgotten to include the never-leavers....
...Starting this week, Lloyds Banking Group is requiring staff to come into the office at least two days a week and throwing in free food to lure them back....
...(I’d call that “pod hogging”....
...If DD readers have the answer, we’d be interested to hear it....
...“We had the same excited feeling when we heard we’d be working on The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar [2023] – and we’re now on our fourth Wes adventure!” Anderson is a serial collaborator....
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...Lloyds, which has closed 721 branches since 2015, was singled out for criticism by one Which? member....
...When they built a new hotel on the Côte d’Azur, the result was the astonishing Maybourne Riviera, a modernist fantasy on the rocks overlooking Monaco....
...He also feels reassured that Val d’Isère’s snowfall is reliable....
...That’s what John Neal, the chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, told the FT yesterday....
...“Jacques says there is no -ism in this architecture, no one style,” says Simon Cloutier, a protégé of Labro who now runs the Atelier d’Architecture d’Avoriaz....
...Half a century ago during the Fischer boom, the annual Lloyds Bank one-day women’s rapidplay used to attract more than 50 entries, ranging from internationals to beginners....
...I’d have to question their mental stability.”...
...If nobody could get in, they’d form again in another guise. As for the Garrick’s women problem, it may be that it has a man problem....
...“Some of [NatWest’s] disclosures are better than their peers, but I’d say they’re coming from an easier starting point.”...
...“We’d like to see the majority of that go to share buybacks — their power when you’re trading this cheaply is enormous.”...
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