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...Wedd Durlacher was consumed by Barclays in 1986. McCall, now Stevens, went on to become a director at UBS....
...We think both Martin Horgan’s appointment as CEO and recent board additions are a positive for CEY....
...To do that it bought in the run-up to Big Bang the pre-eminent jobbing firm Wedd Durlacher, which made markets in securities, and the broker De Zoete & Bevan....
...David Durlacher, head of Julius Baer in the UK and Ireland, said the bank’s acquisition of Bank of America’s international private banking operations five years ago had “brought significant scale” to its...
...David Durlacher, head of relationship management, said he was “delighted” to welcome the new executives “at this exciting time, as we build out Julius Baer’s business in the UK and Ireland”....
...Sir Martin Jacomb, former chairman of Share plc and now in his mid-80s, has kept himself fully engaged and is in touch with everything, and I hope to follow his example....
...Then, the internal turmoil unleashed by the BZW break-up culminated in the resignation of Martin Taylor, Barclays’ chief executive, a year later....
...Barclays was a family bank with Quaker roots which post-Big Bang embraced de Zoete & Bevan and Wedd Durlacher, the pre-Big Bang stock broker and jobber, plus most of Lehman Bros. It was not alone....
...So said Martin Vander Weyer in his colourful account of the chequered, late-20th century history of Barclays....
...Out of the picture The Niche Group, the Aim-listed investor in pre-IPO companies chaired by Christopher Stainforth, former Durlacher boss, has parted company with its chief executive....
...However, the terms of the LSE’s censure of Durlacher – the first public one it has ever issued – hardly seem designed to strike terror into a naughty nomad....
...And while overturning a 17,000-plus majority may be a rare event, Martin Bell, who is actively supporting anti-Iraq war protester Reg Keys in Sedgefield, achieved that feat against Neil Hamilton in Tatton...
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...Invesco Perpetual, ABN Amro, Durlacher, American Express, Goldman Sachs and various other banks have predicted double-digit falls in house prices....
...Durlacher jumped 9.2 per cent to 101p as the rumour that the small cap stockbroker could be subject of a takeover bid was reheated once again....
...Overall the London market made gains but trading was relatively quiet with the US market closed for Martin Luther King day....
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