Ant & Dec face Wonga Twitter backlash.
Olympic gold medallists Laura Trott and Chris Hoy tell PM: “Hands off sport funding”.
Nivea drops Rihanna for being too raunchy.
News Corp makes $1.6bn loss after $2.9bn publishing writedown.
Shrinking physical entertainment sales push HMV into £38.6m loss.
Prisoners paid £3 a day to work at call centre that has fired other staff. Becoming Green, which took on prisoners for ‘work experience’, says dismissals ‘part of normal call centre environment’.
The Guardian has launched an app which enables readers to create a personal playlist of the most significant songs of their life, as part of a summer campaign to draw attention to its music coverage.
BETC London has poached M&C Saatchi’s senior creative team of Matt Pam and Simon Hipwell.
Channel 4 hires Jonathan Lewis as head of digital and partnership innovation.
Matt Teeman, the former sales director at BBC Magazines, is to take on the new role of commercial director at free newspaper Metro.
MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY and UBS WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Two veteran teams of Merrill Lynch advisers have the left the brokerage, owned by Bank of America, to join rival firms Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and UBS Wealth Management Americas.
Advisers Matthew Zaft, Connor McKinney and Maria Fruciano joined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney from Merrill Lynch. In Oregon, advisers Mike Clancy, Brad Anderson and Steve Burch joined UBS Wealth Management Americas.
BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch expanded its broker base in Florida by hiring advisers Andrew Cappello and Christie Roberts from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in the region.
Cappello had been a managing director of wealth management at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, while Roberts had been a senior vice president.
BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired UBS’s Asia mergers and acquisitions head Stephen Gore to helm its M&A unit for Asia-Pacific excluding Japan.
NYSE EURONEXT
The exchange operator appointed LuíS Palha da Silva to its board of directors.
RELIANCE MUTUAL INSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED
The company appointed Clive Allison as head of member recruitment. He was previously with Scottish Widows as market director for their protection business.
