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LetterOne Holdings SA
Firm founded by Russian oligarchs to buy London building for £100mn
...The sanctions meant the businessmen had to relinquish control of the group they set up to invest their fortunes, and prompted the firm to introduce a new governance structure headed by City grandee Mervyn...
April 12, 2024
LetterOne Holdings SA
LetterOne chair Mervyn Davies receives bumper payout after Russian oligarchs’ exit
...City grandee Mervyn Davies received $40mn last year as LetterOne’s non-executive chair, enjoying a sharp increase in pay as the firm’s sanction-hit Russian founders had to relinquish control, according to...
June 9, 2023
FT Live
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Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Mervyn King
We need a new approach to bank regulation
Waiting until there is a crisis and then deploying ad hoc measures is not good enough
May 12, 2023
Letter
Letter: Remember Mervyn King’s role in averting crisis
...Equal recognition must be given to the then governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, for refusing the chancellor’s demands to increase support for the banking system....
December 7, 2023
Andy Haldane
Economic forecasting — little more than performance art for central bankers
...Former central bank governor Mervyn King used to observe that the probability of forecasts proving correct was almost precisely zero....
April 16, 2024
Central banks
What happens when a central bank runs out of money?
...The HM Treasury is obliged to come good on the guarantee negotiated back in the Global Financial Crisis by Mervyn King against any and all losses arising from its QE portfolio....
April 8, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
HTSIHTSI holiday special 2023
22 buys to get the party started
...four, abask.com Roger Feraud 1950s wood and wrought-iron coat-hanger stand, €1,210, vntg.com Philips Iris table lamp, £94.99 Ralph Lauren Home stainless-steel Thorpe ice bucket and tongs set, £295 Mervyn...
November 24, 2023
Northern Ireland
Stormont prepares to reconvene with region’s first nationalist leader
...But one of the most powerful voices in unionism gave the thumbs-up: Rev Mervyn Gibson, grand secretary of the Orange Order, told the Belfast Telegraph the deal was “a win for unionist determination and unity...
February 2, 2024
UK economy
The Bank of England is misusing its fiscal powers
...The Bank introduced the APF under Mervyn King in 2009, with support from the Labour government....
February 29, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
An eyebrow-raising payout at LetterOne
...LetterOne’s chair is Lord Mervyn Davies, former chief executive of Standard Chartered bank and one-time Labour government minister....
June 13, 2023
News in-depthNorthern Ireland
N Ireland unionists and nationalists pledge prosperity for opposite ends
...“Republicans will promote those things that align with their goal — Irish unity — while seeking to deny things that would strengthen Northern Ireland’s place within the United Kingdom,” said Mervyn Gibson...
February 10, 2024
Brandon Lewis
Former Tory chair to advise company founded by sanctions-hit Russians
...Lord Mervyn Davies, LetterOne chair, told the Financial Times: “The appointment of Brandon Lewis builds on the decisive changes we have been making following Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine...
October 24, 2023
Letter
Letter: LetterOne ‘follows strict payout rules at all times’
...It is worth noting that remuneration for Mervyn Davies, chair, for 2022 was less than that approved by shareholders for 2021....
June 15, 2023
ObituaryAlistair Darling
Alistair Darling, UK chancellor, 1953-2023
...Letter in response to this article:Remember Mervyn King’s role in averting crisis / From Charles Bishop, Managing Director, Capital Value Brokers, London W8, UK...
November 30, 2023
LetterOne Holdings SA
‘Look, we’re not sanctioned’: how Holland & Barrett owner cut ties with Russian investors
...The first thing Mervyn Davies did when Russian oligarch owners of LetterOne were sanctioned for their links to the Kremlin was to call in the decorators. “We did it literally the next day....
December 9, 2022
FT Live
Global Banking Summit
The world's top gathering of leaders in finance
Tuesday, 3 DecemberLondon, UK
UK economy
The House of Lords’ thinking on inflation is muddled and meagre
...Lord Mervyn King not recusing himself from this report, an act that leaves the former Bank of England governor marking the homework of his successors, now comes into focus....
December 11, 2023
Letter
Letter: Time for BoE to revive practice of ‘fan diagrams’
...When Eddie George was governor of the Bank of England and professor (now Lord) Mervyn King the chief economist, the BoE got us used to the “fan diagram”, where point estimates were surrounded by a penumbra...
May 29, 2023
UK property
UK property survey shows falling sales and frenetic rental market
...Stan Shaw, head of the agency Mervyn Smith, based near Richmond in Surrey, said buyers had started to make offers well below asking prices after the Bank of England lifted interest rates by 0.5 percentage...
August 9, 2023
Nigel Wilson
Legal & General chief executive considers move into politics
...But Lord Mervyn Davies, former chief executive of Standard Chartered, who served as business minister in Gordon Brown’s Labour government, said he “thoroughly enjoyed” the work and found it “extremely rewarding...
July 21, 2023
Letter
Letter: The real threat to stability is not from bank runs
...Mervyn King’s proposal for guaranteeing liquidity provision to financial intermediaries merits serious consideration (“We need a new approach to bank regulation”, Opinion, FT Weekend, May 13)....
May 19, 2023
FT Alphaville
Further reading
...— Mervyn King: “The Bank of England made a terrible mistake” (The New Statesman) — Duncan Weldon on the BoE’s credibility problems (Value Added / Substack) — Secular inflation (Project Syndicate) —...
October 13, 2022
Patience Wheatcroft
It’s time to revive a ‘government of all the talents’
...When he resigned in 2009, he was replaced by Mervyn Davies, formerly chief executive and then chair of Standard Chartered bank....
August 8, 2023
Philip Augar
NatWest saga shows running a bank is more of a high-wire act than ever
...The authorities, in this case in the form of Bank of England governor Mervyn King, would have none of it and the board was forced to change its mind....
July 27, 2023
News
Behind the scenes: who are the FT’s crossword compilers?
...Cunning anti-hero of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels. Real name Brendan Donaghy. Where are you? Bogotá, Colombia....
April 16, 2023
UK interest rates
Some pointless charts about the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee
...Lord Mervyn King is the only Bank of England Governor to have ever lost a vote, although of 14 turns on the losing side only two were when he was governor (he was previously chief economist)....
June 30, 2023

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