A well-connected City Spy reader gets in touch about the UBS scandal and alleged rogue trader Kweku Adoboli. "Perhaps people are looking the wrong way for who caused UBS's losses," he says... more
European newspaper publisher Mecom declares it will pay a dividend this year, saying this shows it is doing better financially than British counterparts Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press... more
Financial Services Authority likely to take a close look at a leap in the share price of newspaper group Mecom following a mooted informal takeover approach... more
Merrill Lynch, UBS and many others may have had a torrid time in investment banking during the credit crunch, with a knock-on effect on their reputations, but things don’t look quite so bad in the refined world of private banking... more
David Montgomery's Mecom newspaper group sets ambitious targets for online growth after surviving a debt crisis, asset sales and an 18% drop in advertising revenues... more
Now that nights are getting longer, it's important to spend them well. Whether your tastes run to speakeasys, fire-eaters or a knees-up with Simon Le Bon, there's a club for you...... more
Former Mirror newspapers chief David Montgomery today said advertising revenues at his Mecom empire of newspapers on the continent were stabilising, although they were still down 22% in the first half of the year... more
Media: Former Mirror Group chief executive David Montgomery has sold the German arm of Mecom, the European newspaper empire he runs, to cut the group’s huge debts... more
Shares in the media company run by former Trinity Mirror boss David Montgomery have shot up by 20% on strong speculation that one of its main newspaper businesses had received a takeover offer... more
My overriding ambition as a cub reporter in the mid-1960s was to become a Fleet Street journalist. For reasons I now forget I became convinced that the quickest way to get there was to become a sub-editor.... more
Artist Sophie Montgomery, wife of newspaper owner David, is going blind. Here she reveals how she copes with knowing that her children could suffer the same fate.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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