27 JULY 1985, page 21

P.s.

CITY Merchant Banks? Who are they: Rothschilds, Barings, Hambros? No, City Merchant Banks is the vainglorious new name chosen for itself by the small banking house of P. S.......

Watchdog Bites Back

FRESHFIELDS and lawsuits new! What a field-day for the City lawyers. The Bank of England sues Arthur Young, auditors of Johnson Matthey Bankers, for about £240 million. Arthur......

City And Suburban

Pound's Italian lesson on the expletive-deleted Snake CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he man with the right idea about the bra was President Nixon. Pressed to action by his staff, he......

Roll Call

THE Austrian-born economist turned civil servant turned banker, negotiator for the Marshall plan and for Britain's earliest and most hopeful attempt to enter Europe, chosen by......