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City Spy: UBS and a curious way to recruit staff

20.09.11
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

In the air: Lawyers go into battle over hacking

20.07.11
Split loyalties at solicitors Olswang?... more

Endemol man fills gap at Mecom

24.05.11
European newspaper group Mecom has found a chief executive to replace David Montgomery by raiding Big Brother TV firm Endemol... more

Mecom: We're beating Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press

16.03.11
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

David Montgomery to quit Mecom at end of month

13.01.11
Mecom founder David Montgomery will step down as chief executive by the end of the month, the Continental newspaper group confirms... more

Mecom share rise alerts FSA after informal bid talks

12.01.11
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

Newspapers need to learn wider lessons of business

20.10.10
Media analysis: Did someone ask why publishers like outsourcing? The reason is obvious: it is cheaper and it works... more

David Montgomery 'pressured' to quit Mecom

09.09.10
David Montgomery, one of the biggest names in the world of British newspapers, announces plans to resign from his Mecom media group... more

Mecom leaps 48% on online ads lift

28.07.10
European newspaper publisher Mecom reports a 48% jump in operating profits to €70.1 million in the first six months of 2010... more

City Spy: The power of few in private banking

05.07.10
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

China’s currency revaluation saves FTSE on Budget eve

21.06.10
Market Round-up: China has done the markets a huge favour by announcing plans to allow its currency, the yuan, to increase in value... more

Mecom upbeat despite blow from ads and fall in profits

17.03.10
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

Mecom chief David Montgomery upbeat on ads

14.01.10
Shares in newspaper firm Mecom jump after chief executive David Montgomery says he is “very hopeful” that the advertising market is improving... more

Playing with clubs: meet the entrepreneurs of the night

06.11.09
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

Marcia Kilgore: sole trader

14.10.09
Creator of iconic brands FitFlop, Bliss and Soap & Glory, one-time body builder Marcia Kilgore tells Liz Hoggard how she learnt to survive... more

Kaupthing’s loan book is tale of woe

10.08.09
The leaked loan book of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing reads like a who’s who of some of the credit crunch’s biggest losers ... more

Mecom’s profits are slashed by ads blow

06.08.09
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

Battered Mecom in £141.5m rights issue

22.05.09
Newspaper tycoon David Montgomery's troubled Mecom group declared it was raising £141.5 million through a massively discounted rights issue ... more

Mecom is facing a shortfall in funding

06.03.09
Former Daily Mirror editor David Montgomery has warned his pan-European newspaper publisher Mecom could breach its borrowing terms this month... more

Mecom surrenders German newspapers

13.01.09
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

Mecom is upbeat at £64m after cost cuts

20.08.08
Former Mirror Group chief executive David Montgomery said his latest venture Mecom is well-placed to weather the economic downturn... more

Market report: Michael Page surges as it gives Adecco a hint

20.08.08
City headhunter Michael Page was itself in demand as speculators bet on a return of its suitor Adecco ¼ ½ ¾... more

Mecom up 20% on takeover talk

25.07.08
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

Destined for the spike - sub-editors will struggle to survive in digital age

02.07.08
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

I love painting. I don't know what I'll do when my eyesight finally goes

18.03.08
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

Rare photos capture Hendrix at full volume

07.01.08
Rare photographs of Jimi Hendrix at every stage of his career are to be exhibited at a gallery in Soho.... more


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