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BlackRock veteran James Charrington to retire
Former head of Emea is retiring after more than 30 years with the US asset management giant
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Advent agrees £3.8bn deal for FTSE 250 group Spectris as KKR mulls fresh bid
The scientific instruments maker is the latest in a flurry of deals inked by Advent in the industrial and engineering sectors
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Nomura hands wholesale boss Willcox $15m pay after profit surges
British banker’s pay up 25% to almost double CEO’s
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Alantra is ready to build again after investment bank overhaul
After rapid international expansion, the mid-market focused firm restructured its business last year. Its investment bank CEO says it can now rebuild again
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Meet three of Europe’s top lawyers
FN’s Fifty Most Influential Lawyers list returns next week. Here are three of this year’s debutants
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BlackRock’s Cohen: We are as strong as our rivals on private markets
Chief product officer Stephen Cohen says the world’s largest asset manager is ready to go toe-to-toe with alternatives giants
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BlackRock weighs bigger push into crypto ETFs
Stephen Cohen, BlackRock’s chief product officer, says it will ‘continue to look at areas within the crypto world where exposures within an ETF make sense’
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HSBC eyes AI bots to replace back office jobs
The UK lender is interested in using AI agents created by a tech startup
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Kraken’s Arjun Sethi: Remote work will help us find the best talent
The co-CEO of Kraken discusses expansion plans, the hunt for acquisitions and why institutional adoption of digital assets is on the rise
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‘I’m riddled with anxiety about it’: Working dads face tough choices about paternity leave
City firms are improving benefits for fathers, but some say change isn’t coming fast enough
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The former H&F partner who swapped private equity for poker
Analysing data, reading body language and using logic: a newly-crowned poker player is bringing his years of private equity know-how to the Las Vegas tables
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Accenture backs AI boom with new management structure
Consultancy is trying to position itself for further tech growth
Fiera Capital managing partner Catherine O’Reilly exits
The former Goldman Sachs and TCI Fund Management employee has also stepped down from her board role at UK trade body the Investment Association
CVC pivots from growth to mid-market in strategy reset
The European buyout giant has quietly launched a new product dubbed ‘Catalyst’ as part of a broader plan to grow its assets under management
Trading Places: JPMorgan’s private banking shake-up, Citi overhauls DCM team
Find out who is on the move in the City and beyond this week
The government fired the CMA’s chair. Then it deleted the messages
WhatsApp records were set to disappear, the Department for Business and Trade confirms
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Meet the female banker taking over JPMorgan’s UK private bank
Catch up on the top news in wealth management this week
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Schroders CEO’s report card, and where L&G’s funds business goes next
Catch up on all this week’s asset management news
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Who is JPMorgan’s new UK private banking boss?
Maricé Brown is ‘JPMorgan through and through’ but is an unfamiliar name in the City
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Ex-Bank of America trader joins Sumo as head of systematic fixed income trading
Jugakalpa Das’ six-member pod will start trading for Sumo in July
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