IS Prime has launched a new liquidity solution in indices and commodities, with variable spreads in the major indices and US and UK crude starting from zero during liquid market hours. This will give clients of the ISAM Capital Markets Group even more competitive spreads. Retail brokers have in recent years been engaging in an…
Jeff Dworin has been appointed Sales Executive, Americas at United Fintech, the rapidly growing firm launched by Christian Frahm to help banks, hedge funds and asset managers to accelerate their transition to a digital world through access to fintechs specializing in capital markets. Jeff Dworin joins United Fintech from State Street where he worked for…
On the opening day of IIMF’s rescheduled 2021 programme, Investec and IIMF are delighted to announce that Investec continues as Festival Core Sponsor for this 2021 season. The season opens tonight with Artistic Director Wu Qian performing alongside fellow pianist Juho Pohjonen at West Horsley Place and continues until 8 October, including The Tallis…
David Welch, CEO of Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS), has won the Charity Times Charity Leader of the Year Award 2021 – a prestigious national award which celebrates excellence amongst charities and not for profit organisations from across the UK and honours the outstanding professionals in charity management. With David at the helm,…
Ahead of its rescheduled 2021 season (taking place 16-25 September), Investec International Music Festival (IIMF) is delighted to announce the launch of its new initiative to encourage young music-makers in Surrey – part of its wide-ranging plans in 2022 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The beautiful Surrey…
Uncommon Power’: Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown is the first exhibition dedicated to the life, art and feminist legacies of sisters Lucy Rossetti (1843-1894) and Catherine Hueffer (1850-1927). Commonly referred to as the daughters of Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), these two creative women grew up at the heart of the Pre-Raphaelite world and, as…
Richard Twose, one of the UK’s most acclaimed portrait painters, goes deep into the events of his extraordinary life in a new collection at the Catto Gallery in September. The show, Past Imperfect, sees the artist re-examine his wild biography – a journey that embraces evangelical Christianity, animal rights activism, revolutionary communism, multiple arrests,…
Colour in Clay, opening at Watts Contemporary Gallery on 18 September (until 31 October), brings together work by 10 of the UK’s most dynamic ceramic artists to celebrate contemporary approaches to colour in ceramic practice. From pure clay bodies to dazzling glazes, deep oxides and vivid surface decoration, the exhibition examines colour as a…
Today, organisers of the Guildford Book Festival are delighted to announce the line-up for the 2021 event, which returns to venues across the town between 3 and 10 October. Facing an uncertain future as a result of Covid-19, last year the Festival – which is a registered charity – launched an emergency fundraising appeal. …
Research from life-saving charity Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) in partnership with the University of Surrey has shown the significant benefits of HEMS in responding to penetrating torso injuries suffered by patients in rural or semi-rural areas. Penetrating trauma is most commonly associated with stabbing or shooting. The retrospective study, which analysed data…