Hints and tips:
...Only a third of works put under temporary export bar end up staying in the country, and the UK’s arts minister Lord Stephen Parkinson recently suggested treating differently those “destined for public display...
...Nicholas Cullinan, director of the NPG, suggested to the memorial fund that it could back a jointly funded acquisition with the Getty, ensuring success in acquiring the portrait....
...Bhavan, who had her first child in the late 1980s, notes that she benefited from working for architect Ted Cullinan, whose studio she says was a “forward-thinking” employer that supported her with leave...
...Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, said: “We are delighted to have acquired one of the finest known portraits of Dylan Thomas, representing the Welsh poet at the peak of his literary...
...Mr Cullinan, chairman of PwC’s US board, handed award presenter Warren Beatty the wrong envelope in the best film category....
...But its historical importance demands a style of intervention that Stephen Witherford, director of Witherford Watson Mann, likens to acupuncture. “You don’t go and blast anything out....
...The job of cleaning up RBS’s bad loans was likened to “defusing the time-bomb” by former chief executive Stephen Hester before his departure in 2013....
...Mr McEwan, who ran RBS’s retail bank before he replaced Stephen Hester as CEO in 2013, is likely to withdraw from more than half the 38 countries RBS operates in today....
...Stephen Hester began cutting back the investment bank in 2009. Rory Cullinan, the bank’s run-off ninja, will finish the job....
...His approach contrasts with that of his predecessor, Stephen Hester, who regularly stirred controversy over his bonus payments and then often ended up forfeiting them....
...Mr Bramson, accompanied by his head of research Stephen Welker, asked to nominate three directors to the board, including him....
...Many colleagues had expected Mr Cullinan, a close friend of former chief executive Stephen Hester, to leave the bank at the end of the year, leaving a question mark over who would run the bad bank....
...Actually — is it so bizarre that Stephen Hester is getting booted like this? Hester probably did plan on another two years as RBS’s chief executive....
...RORY CULLINAN, chief executive RBS non-core division: Mr Cullinan, 53, joined RBS in early 2009 and has spent the past four years cleaning up the bank’s busted mortgage-backed securities and loans, as well...
...Royal Bank of Scotland has begun the process of interviewing shortlisted candidates to replace Stephen Hester as chief executive....
...I want to commend Stephen Hester for everything he has done to make this turnaround possible....
...With those words Stephen Hester summed up pretty clearly the dynamic that led to his exit from Royal Bank of Scotland, announced late on Wednesday....
...That does not detract from the surgical élan shown by chief executive Stephen Hester and his lieutenants in cutting back to healthy tissue....
...But it is the double act of Nathan Bostock and Rory Cullinan that are RBS’s on-the-ground Mr Fixits....
...The disposal is part of a five-year project by RBS under the leadership of Stephen Hester, chief executive, to shed large chunks of its business that the bank can no longer afford to hold....
...It has hired Rory Cullinan to head its non-core division and the asset protection scheme....
...An anonymous private buyer at a Geneva auction this week paid a record $9.5m for a rare blue stone from Petra Diamonds’ Cullinan mine in South Africa....
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