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...The bank was founded by Vernon Hill, an entrepreneur known for his retail showmanship to woo depositors, sometimes with the aid of a dog....
...The writer EB White lived just over the hill we’re facing....
...When you get to Charles II Street, enjoy the view of John Nash’s flamboyant Theatre Royal (1821). Cut through to Pall Mall, turn left and then right on to Waterloo Place....
...But it seems the once inseparable Vernon and his Yorkshire terrier Sir Duffield II could find life rather different from now on....
...When US entrepreneur Vernon W Hill opened the first branch of Metro Bank in London, he filled the street with jugglers, a Dixieland band, waitresses serving 5,000 ice creams, and dancers on stilts in red...
...One New York-based Metro bondholder said the “next big question” was whether the board has “taken a decisive turn away from the Vernon Hill strategy” — referring to the bank’s eccentric former chair, who...
...Metro: second’s best His name is Vernon W Hill II. His dog is called Sir Duffield II. And his second bank, Metro, is a focus of regulatory concern over governance just as his first bank in the US was....
...Metro Bank’s chairman Vernon Hill says businesses need “fans not customers”, and takes his “chief canine officer”, a Yorkshire terrier called Sir Duffield II, on trips to branches....
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...Do I need to describe him, or can I simply say that his full name is Vernon W Hill II, he has played golf with Donald Trump and he owns a Yorkshire terrier called Sir Duffield II?...
...hangs in the entrance to reflect the fact that the Prince of Orange spent several nights at nearby Hillsborough Fort before he gathered his armies on the Boyne in 1690 to defeat the Catholic King James II...
...But alongside traditionally highly valued works by John Sell Cotman and JMW Turner, this year he also offers a rapid, atmospheric late sketch by David Cox of woodland on top of Box Hill in Surrey that has...
...W Martyn, a tea and coffee specialist, has been run by a long line of Martyns since 1897, while fans of Toff’s fish and chips have eaten there for nearly 50 years....
...On Thursday, Daiwa Securities announced it would acquire two middle market boutique investment banks, Sagent Advisors and Signal Hill....
...“FREEDOM LIVES,” writes Vernon W....
...Abu Dhabi-based Eagle Hills is marketing the last seven of 41 apartments which will form part of the W Hotel tower....
...The FT may have missed Pope John Paul II, who earned a mention in 1979, when it was decided that no one deserved to be Person of the Decade....
...Nude on Bed” (1959) or the encrusted sculptural relief “E.O.W.’s Reclining Head II” (1966). These are images in flux, of flux, imbued with terrific gravitas, even moral imperative....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 20 7861 5321 Photographs: Jack W Taylor; Bonhams; Carl Bigmore; The Crown Estate Slideshow photographs: Carl Bigmore...
...“US investors are willing to pay more for growth,” said Vernon Hill, chairman....
...Hill, the billionaire Reuben brothers and hedge funds Branches: 27 Customers: 359,000 (customer accounts) Strategy: To grow to 200 branches over time....
...In September 1926, a Dutch journalist W.F.A Röell visited Piet Mondrian in his Paris studio on Rue du Départ....
...Last year I spent a day on the road with Vernon Hill, the chairman of Metro Bank, where I serve as a board member....
...W. Norton Company. Copyright 2014. All rights reserved. We wrote this book because we got confused....
...He says the days when a local person would start with a one-bedroom flat and work up to a large family house are gone: “What we’re finding is that the Notting Hill, Holland Park, Kensington flat-owners who...
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