21 Dec 2010
| by Alex Brownsell
Contract for differences (CFD) financial betting brand IG Markets has launched a print ad campaign...will China s economic growth affect the financial markets?".
The campaign, which launched this week ...
based around the tagline "Get Thinking", illustrating how real world events affect the financial markets ...
how the spread-betting process works, adding "Financial spread betting provides a simple, tax-free way ...
17 Dec 2010
| by Alex Brownsell
In July, the fledgling financial services brand became the UK s first new high street bank in over 100 years, offering extended opening hours of 8am to 8pm, including at weekends.
Having secured an additional 50m in funding, Metro Bank is now aiming to launch eight stores in the London area in its first ...
16 Dec 2010
| by Alec Mattinson
corporate and financial comms.
The firm has held initial discussions with a number of the City's heaviest ...
is understood not to be under review. There is no incumbent corporate and financial agency.
Industry observers noted that the financial comms brief was a 'clear sign' that the Government was pressing ahead ...
15 Dec 2010
| by Anthony Hilton
The economics of financial PR firms have a lot in common with those of the medium-sized financial...and that has made them reluctant to do anything out of the ordinary.
It is in times like these that firms ...
to undermine confidence.
No-one is suggesting we are going to get back to the levels of 2007 any time soon ...
14 Dec 2010
| by Alec Mattinson
The government-run energy investment firm currently retains Capital MS L for investor comms and Bell Pottinger for its group level corporate comms.
The brief encompasses both Capital's retained financial comms work and Bell Pottinger's wider global remit and comms work in support of investments ...
13 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
media and no rules were in place at that time. "There were no clear rules on commercial activity ...
10 Dec 2010
| by Alec Mattinson
Redleaf Communications has bought financial agency Polhill Communications for an undisclosed sum....offices in Smithfield, London. Polhill was founded by Julian Polhill in 1990 and specialises in financial services, while Redleaf has built its presence in the professional and financial services sectors. Emma ...
opportunities. Redleaf Polhill's combined financial and professional services clients include: Close Offshore ...
09 Dec 2010
| by Sarah Shearman
CNBC, the business and financial news channel, has released a free iPad app to allow City workers...The CNBC real-time app, available from the Apple app store in the US and UK, gives users access to live stock quotes from the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, during and after market hours ...
launched a free iPhone app offering real-time market data in October 2009.
In June, CNBC rolled out a ...
09 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
The book, 'A Simples Life, My Life Times', which outlines the life and times of the aristocratic meerkat, had topped the Bookseller list, with more than 130,000 copies sold.
It has now slipped slightly and sits at number three in the chart for the week ending 4 December, and number six in Amazon ...
09 Dec 2010
| by Alec Mattinson
-Royce uses Brunswick for financial PR in the UK and it is not thought this brief encroaches on this ...
agencies when contacted by PRWeek.
TIME LINE
2 Dec: Qantas begins legal action against Rolls ...