The governor, the community bank and the hunt for the missing Greensill billions

How global search to recoup billions of dollars lent by Greensill has moved to Martinsville, Virginia

With Joshua Franklin and Robert Smith

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Days after announcing he will step down as an MP, Nadim Zahawi joins a Barclay family company as chairman!

Also worth noting that Very Group used to be a big borrower from Greensill Capital ft.com/content/4c3e45…

If you take the £46m GT fees, plus the several hundred million dollars of legal fees - much of which will accrue to London lawyers - from the Greensill insurance frauds, Lex certainly has paid for his CBE ‘for services to the British economy’!

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Grant Thornton set to earn £46mn for Greensill administration via Financial Times
Fun fact: Other pricey UK administrations mentioned here are NMC and Carillion - both of which have a Greensill connection. on.ft.com/3y8mvfR

after the wettest start to the year since 1836, the gods of <liam gallagher voice> sunshiiiiiine have decided to beam down on this damp little isle. and that can only mean one thing; the summer playlist is back. freshly updated with 100+ new tunes. enjoy.

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Great rundown of the latest twists and turns in the unravelling of 777 Partners from Paul Brown & Philippe Auclair josimarfootball.com/2024/05/10/out…

Scoop to end the week!

Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky and the owner of the Royal Mail are in stepped up talks over an improved takeover bid as a key deadline looms

With ⁦Arash Massoudi⁩
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SCOOP: Everton bidder 777 calls in restructuring experts ft.com/content/62af0c… via @ft

#777 #Everton

Warrington Borough Council refused to hand key information to its auditor, Grant Thornton, restricting the accountancy firm from reviewing part of the heavily indebted local authority’s books.

Latest w/ Jennifer Williams here 👇🏻

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'I’m not paid to take the comfortable route'

Great profile/interview by Barney Jopson on Carlos Torres, the Spanish chairman at the centre of the biggest story in European banking this week - BBVA's hostile bid for TSB-owner Sabadell

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After 8 months, 16 lawsuits, multiple missed deadlines, payment problems, transfer bans at other clubs, and an airline going into administration, I really have no idea what can possibly have given him that idea 🤷🏼‍♂️

Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie.

She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being 'attractive and attracted'…

The FCA has 'spoken': James Lewis, the former chief executive of brokerage Shard Capital - and Lars Windhorst's go-to broker - banned for providing incorrect information about clients’ cash balances.ft.com/content/801e5e… @bondhack Suzi Ring

ICYMI over the bank holiday weekend: we took a closer look at the financial acrobatics unfolding at Asda

The increasingly complex property deals happening under the Issas/TDR mean that the grocer faces an annual interest bill of half a billion pounds (from <£70m under Walmart)

Hours of entertainment here 👇🏻