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City Spy: Starring role for Cineworld’s high-flier

Air worthy: Steve Wiener found himself the centre of attention when he switched cinema seat for a place on a plane

Cineworld boss Steve Wiener got a taste of the film-star life earlier this year.

City Spy: Morgan man tackles Whale after encounter with Bear

Caught in the maze: Timothy Geithner gives Zames a leg up with an advisory board position

So JPMorgan banking “firefighter” Matt Zames has landed his latest troubleshooting job, sorting out the mess at the bank’s chief investment office, home to the now-notorious London whale and his $2 billion errant gamble.

Soul cleansing: the singer shows Bryer the restaurant and where he washes up

City Spy: Bon Jovi kitchen gives CNBC more spice

Financial news channel CNBC’s effort to make the world of business more, well, rock’n’roll has taken a new twist as it plans to run an in-depth interview with Jon Bon Jovi of the eponymous Eighties rock band, famed for Living On A Prayer.

15 May 2012

City Spy: Bill Gates seeks aid with an ad

It’s the kind of advertising pitch to make most Mad Men start salivating. There is $1 million up for grabs for the ad agency or bright spark that come up with a campaign that can change the world — at least that how it is being billed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, who are funding the initiative.

14 May 2012

Speechless: soon-to-depart Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey

City Spy: Sly’s farewell snub — without a word

Did any chief executive look less happy to be at an annual meeting than Trinity Mirror’s Sly Bailey?

11 May 2012

Outsider: Fincham appears to feel he won’t be welcomed back at the BBC

City Spy: Fincham still sore from Queen kicking

Peter Fincham, ITV’s Director of Television, remains rueful about the 2007 scandal over footage of the Queen that cost him his job as BBC1 Controller.

10 May 2012

Off for a meeting with the landlord: Norris, in Hellbound, is a force to be reckoned with

City Spy: Take care as you chuck out your tenants

East Londoners living in rented accommodation have been left feeling a bit nervous by recent reports that unscrupulous landlords have been evicting tenants so they can let their property for a super-premium during the Games.

09 May 2012

Cabbage phobia: Princess Anne didn’t linger long because of the block’s aroma

City Spy: Dolphin Square bids smell a bit off

The private-equity investor which paid all of £176 million to lease Dolphin Square in 2004 is getting increasingly desperate.

08 May 2012

Those against: Alison Carnwath has already suffered at
the hands of Barclays and Man Group

City Spy: Will LandSecs land next blow?

What a week for Land Securities’ chairman Alison Carnwath, who has suffered a double whammy from angry shareholders.

04 May 2012

Friends in high places: Gilchrist and hubbie Andrew Roberts

City Spy: Brunswick warms to the ice maiden

Is this a sign that the real growth in City public relations is now outside the UK?

03 May 2012

That’s rich! BGC’s Cooper used to rub shoulders with top Goldman hedge fund managers

City Spy: Louise rues a wealth of missed opportunities

Louise Cooper at broker BGC Partners comes over all wistful: “Looking at the Sunday Times Rich List at the weekend, I noted that out of the top 35 wealthiest hedge fund managers listed, five used to be close Goldman colleagues.

02 May 2012

Beer peer: Lord Oakeshott can celebrate a ripping deal

City Spy: Oakeshott’s canny buyback

Bankers’ scourge Lord Oakeshott has done rather well out of one of them.

01 May 2012

Offer tabled: Agius, teabags and shortbread as imagined in our photo montage

City Spy: Barclays’ lukewarm response to brewing trouble

How did Barclays chairman Marcus Agius try to fob off irate shareholders at the feisty annual general meeting?

30 April 2012

To the manner airborne:
a smartly attired Imperial Airways steward serves up refreshment in 1927

City Spy: Maybe inflight food hasn't come that far...

An excitable press release lands.

27 April 2012

Final offer: fly with O’Leary to Champions League crunch for £467-plus

City Spy: Costly to be up for cup with Ryanair

No one has ever suggested Michael O’Leary doesn’t know how to make a quick buck.

26 April 2012

City Spy: Holy Boris’s manifesto in grail

At a housebuilders’ event in the City, reported by Estates Gazette, Mayor Boris Johnson declared that channelling institutional investment into the residential sector was the “holy grail”.

25 April 2012

Bean there, done that: Underwood was sexiest vegetarian

City Spy: Can country girl’s voice Carrie across the Pond?

Boy band One Direction has recently achieved what had hitherto been impossible for a British band: its debut album entered the US album charts at number one.

24 April 2012