7 DECEMBER 1985, page 27

City And Suburban

In South Africa, political change is now the price of credit CHRISTOPHER FILDES I nstructive messages can now be read between the lines of the international banks' dealings with......

Fund Of Flops

BUCKMASTER & Moore, stockbrokers to Keynes, has suffered a case of arrested development. The case history should be read alongside the offers of Business Ex- pansion Scheme......

Alex Dibbs

THE most powerful of bankers, and the least portentous: that was Alex Dibbs. He had joined the Westminster Bank in the lowly post of a junior clerk. He served in that great......

Chief Hunted

THE headhunters are out on the trail, to bring Lloyd's of London a chief executive in succession to Ian Hay Davison. They specify a strong administrator, able to push forward to......