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...Metro doubled down on its contrarianism by adorning its branches with marble accoutrements prescribed by a design company owned by the wife of the bank’s co-founder and former chair Vernon Hill....
...“I don’t know what to do because I know that financially it is probably not smart for me to go any further than I have gone,” she said....
...Law firm RPC’s head of competition Lambros Kilaniotis is leaving to jointly lead Quinn Emanuel’s UK competition practice with partner Kate Vernon, per The Lawyer. Smart reads Crypto for the climate?...
...Former Metro Bank chair Vernon Hill is asking a federal court to block a move by his boardroom adversaries to oust him as chair of the US bank Republic First Bancorp....
...When Rhodes was growing up, his family would take him on “pilgrimages” to sites such as Independence Hall in Philadelphia, or George Washington’s home in Mount Vernon....
...Smart reads Follow the money Ron Perelman, once America’s richest businessman, made a name for himself as a philanthropist too....
...One thing to start: Vernon Jordan, a close ally of former US president Bill Clinton and prominent activist who spent his career battling racial injustice and voter suppression, died this week aged 85....
...This is smart, stimulating music that engages the brain as well as the heart. ★★★★☆ ‘Non-Secure Connection’ is released by Zappo/Thirty Tigers...
...Metro Bank has appointed Robert Sharpe, an industry veteran and the chairman of Bank of Ireland UK, as its chairman after co-founder Vernon Hill resigned in the wake of a reporting scandal last year....
...Daniel Susskind’s A World Without Work has smart ideas about dealing with tech-fuelled joblessness....
...Vernon Hill: Courting trouble Vernon Hill did himself no favours in a Delaware courtroom this week....
...Briefly Metro Bank’s Vernon Hill is also leaving....
...The list includes: Felix Rohatyn, Michel David-Weill, Édouard Stern, Bruce Wasserstein, Antonio Weiss, Gary Parr, Vernon Jordan and Steve Rattner....
...Smart reads Private equity’s trail of death Private equity is remaking the healthcare industry and the results are shocking....
...Smart reads The waning power of We WeWork has experienced a spectacular downfall that many had predicted but few thought they would see in such a short space of time....
...Metro Bank has started its search for a new chairman to replace its founder Vernon Hill....
...If the most important skill in investment banking is relationship building, then Vernon Jordan may be the most successful hire in the history of Wall Street....
...“It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules,” the futurist Vernon Vinge explained in 1993....
...Smart reads Financial shenanigans Balance sheet engineering has become an art form, making it difficult for investors to accurately gauge a company’s true financial position....
...But we lost a pin-money wager with them on the direction of the Pearson share price and the memory still smarts....
...Current and past supporters provide a roll call of British wealth and business influence: patrons include high-end developer Nick Candy; former Formula 1 magnate Bernie Ecclestone; and TV presenter Vernon...
...Much as I love Vernon, my gorgeous South African colourist at Paul Edmonds, sitting at my hairdresser for a couple of hours every three weeks is not my idea of fun....
...Soul diva Paloma Faith sang; celebrity presenter Vernon Kay played host. Tony Blair, who as premier gave the academy his blessing in 2005, was an incongruous presence....
...Hutch Vernon, who runs a “flexible equity” mutual fund for Brown Advisory in Baltimore, suggests that Visa and MasterCard can maintain their status as tollbooths for online commerce (even PayPal, arguably...
...The island is only 21 miles by 14 and its roads blaze with brightly painted rum shops that sport beguiling names such as Vernon’s Cosy Bar and Sandra’s Spot to Stop....
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