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Accepting Houses Committee
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Accepting Houses Committee A committee representing the 16
accepting houses in the City of London. ...
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Mine's a Guinness
The Spectator
; BY THE standards of Guinness Mahon's previous owners, the Bank of Yokohama has been splendid, but the Japanese need their money at home and their London merchant bank is up for sale. I may buy it. Merchant banks are a drug on the market these days - in need of refurbishment, for sale as a whole or
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The generation that failed
The Spectator
; A recent survey showed 1976 was the best year ever. Not if you were starting a City career, says Martin Vander Weyer I am looking at a group photograph of the Oxford University Gridiron Club in the summer of 1976; there I am in the second row, with big lapels and hair like Starsky's. 'The Grid' was
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What's in a name: merchants, merchant bankers, accepting houses, issuing houses, industrial bankers and investment bankers.
Business History
; 'The term merchant bank is widely and loosely used today', observed Sir Edward Reid, the doyen of City of London merchant bankers, a director of Baring Brothers & Co. Ltd since 1926 and chairman of the Accepting Houses Committee since 1946, commencing his presidential address to the Institute
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Big Bang propelled the City into the firmament, but can it keep its lead? BUSINESS & MONEY
The Independent on Sunday
; The City's Big Bang has its 20th birthday next week: 1986 was the year when London's financial services industry made three giant changes to its or-ganisation - changes that have led to the City's elevated status as the world's largest financial centre for global business. One was to end the
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MIC members join Sentul folk in gotong-royong
New Straits Times
; MIC members join Sentul folk in gotong-royong Edition: 2* Section: City News FROM as early as 7.30am, more than 50 residents in Sentul Bahagia gathered for a gotong-royong to clean up their area. The gotong-royo ...
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Obituary: James Lees-Milne
The Independent - London
; James Lees-Milne, architectural historian and writer: born Wickhamford, Worcestershire 6 August 1908; Private Secretary to the first Lord Lloyd 1931-35; staff, Reuters 1935-36; Secretary, Country Houses Committee, National Trust 1936-44, Secretary, Historic Buildings Committee 1945-51, Adviser on
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Viking bank makes a bid for Singer Friedlander
Daily Mail
; SINGER Friedlander, one of the City's few remaining independent investment banks, has entered into takeover talks with its largest shareholder Kaupthing. Kaupthing, an Icelandic bank, built up a 19.5pc holding in Singer last year and has been consistently tipped as a bidder. It is not the only
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Regulatory responses to the rise of the market for corporate control in Britain in the 1950s.
Business History
; On both sides of the Atlantic the post-war years have seen |the coming of an institutionalised market for corporate control1] For the first time it became possible for the ownership of public companies to be determined simply by stock market transactions and for control to pass thereby to parties
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The two banks in London and Paris have raised long-term questions.(The Bottom Line; Barings, Credit Lyonnais)(Brief Article)(Column)
The Banker
; Compare and contrast. In London, venerable merchant bank Barings goes belly up as a result of unauthorised dealings by one trader on the other side of the planet. In Paris, Credit Lyonnais is forced to disclose losses of FF12 billion ($2.4 billion) for 1994, well above the previous year's FF6.9
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We think this euro is more like a groucho, but we'll make the market, all the same
The Spectator
; Happy as I always am to help the Bank of England, I have - as I can now reveal - supplied the script for its euro dog and pony show. David Clementi, the new deputy governor, is taking it on tour. He will be telling the world that when Europe has a single currency its marketplace will be in London,
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