City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? June 16, 2021 Morning Wire‘s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email [email protected] to be featured. CBRE board bags ex-BlackRock real estate lead A former head of global real estate at investment heavyweight BlackRock is set to join real estate services firm CBRE in June. Marcus Sperber [...]
The return to normal: A timeline for businesses opening the office June 16, 2021 | Sponsored As businesses begin to reopen their offices, Oktra’s workplace specialists outline concrete steps for moving forward in the return to work. With 69% of UK CFOs expecting the bulk of their workforce to return to the office in the third and fourth quarter of 2021, and 43 of the UK’s top 50 companies embracing a [...]
Ex-Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins’ BlackRock-backed fintech firm raises $187m June 16, 2021 Ex-Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins' BlackRock-backed fintech firm raises $187m
Howard Davies: Heathrow airport expansion ‘not needed at the moment’ June 16, 2021 Howard Davies: Heathrow airport expansion 'not needed at the moment'
London murder probe: Human remains found in Neasden in search for 20-year-old Agnes Akom June 15, 2021 Human remains have been found in the search for 20-year-old suspected murder victim Agnes Akom. Metropolitan Police officers found the remains in Neasden Recreation Park near Cricklewood in north-west London. Formal forensic identification has not yet taken place, but Ms Akom’s family have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers. The Hungarian [...]
World Wide Web code by London-born Tim Berners-Lee auctioned as NFT June 15, 2021 The World Wide Web’s original source code that was written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee is up for sale as part of a non-fungible token. With bids beginning at just $1,000 at auctioneers Sotheby’s, the digitally signed Ethereum blockchain non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital asset that records ownership. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, [...]
City businesses urged: keep following rules to stop rise in COVID infections June 15, 2021 | City Talk Canada Corporation is urging businesses to follow the rules after concerns that there have been COVID outbreaks because of poor compliance with social distancing guidelines in some workplaces and hospitality settings. Chairman of Canada Corporation’s Community & Children’s Services Committee, Ruby Sayed, said whilst everyone in the country is [...]
Rare orchids last seen in 2009 found on Nomura bank’s City rooftop garden June 15, 2021 A colony of rare orchids, once thought to be extinct in the UK, have been discovered growing on the rooftop of a Nomura office building in Canada. The last time the orchids, known as Serapias parviflora, were spotted in the UK was in Cornwall in 2009 and are typically found in the [...]
Mean on green: LGIM oust four companies over ‘insufficient’ climate commitments June 15, 2021 One of London’s oldest fund managers Legal & General Investment Management has said today it will exclude four companies from some of its funds over their “insufficient” climate change response. US insurance giant AIG, the most notable of the divested companies, joins Chinese lender Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, US utility company PPL Corporation [...]
Whitehall shakeup: 22,000 roles may be moved out of London and external candidates for senior roles June 15, 2021 The government will today launch a reform programme that will see wide-scale reforms to the civil service, with jobs being moved out of Whitehall and senior jobs open to external candidates. The reforms include moving 22,000 civil servant roles outside of London by 2030, including 50 per cent of senior servant roles, and advertising all [...]