15 JUNE 1985, page 19

Picture Cards

I LIKE the market research at Visa, the credit card network. Visa's member banks lose many millions to fraud, and are constantly being badgered to make their cards contain a......

' Traill Blazing Hats Off To The Lord Mayor, The

First Citizen and, next week, the City's host! Sir Alan Traill's predecessors could be for- given for believing that there is quite enough banqueting in the job, as it is. (Sir......

Debenhams Besieged

DEBENHAMS broke the last great takeover boom, a dozen years ago. Its chairman, Sir Anthony Burney, fought off the bid from UDS by casting doubt, not just on the bidder, but on......

Chair For Charles

IT WAS Charles Goodhart who taught us that, in the jungle of money, the anthropo- logists may watch the savages, but are apt to get their answers wrong once the sav- ages start......

City And Suburban

It takes a golden key to escape from City bondage CHRISTOPHER FILDES T wo leading City banks have gone to the lawyers to settle their differences. What is under test is the......