BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.2B
- Private
- UK
Dow Jones Description
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. Sometimes known as the 'Old Lady' of Threadneedle Street, the Bank was founded in 1694, nationalised on 1 March 1946, and gained independence in 1997. Standing at the centre of the UK's financial system, the Bank is committed to promoting and maintaining monetary and financial stability as its contribution to a healthy economy.
Executive Director, Banking & Chief Cashier
Andrew BaileyNumber of Employees 1,639
NAICS Code Monetary Authorities-Central Bank: 521110
Recent Events
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FTSE 100 up 0.83%
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Euro Stocks Rally After US Economic Reports
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Europe shares hit 1-week closing high on U.S. data
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Dollar hovers near 1-year low ahead of Fed meeting
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BoE could cut rate paid on bank reserves
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Crisis measures boosting central banks' bottom line
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Europe Heeds Cautious Central Banks
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U.K.: Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Are Too Big
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BoE appoints Bailey head of Special Resolution Unit
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US economist joins Bank of England rate-setters
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Britain appoints Posen to replace Besley on BoE's MPC
News & Analysis
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Need to know: Unite joint venture ... SAS job cuts ... Swisscom profits rise ...
BNET
- 2009-08-12
View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Unemployment: Official data showed that nearly one million young people are out of work as unemployment hit a 14-year high. More than 700,00 18 to 24-year-olds and 206,000 16 to 17-year-olds are jobless. Inflation: Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of...
Warning sounded over sharp rises in oil price
BNET
- 2009-08-09
The nascent recovery in global economic activity could yet be derailed by rising oil prices, with Brent crude hitting $76 a barrel last week, its highest levels of the year to date. In a blunt warning last week, Goldman Sachs called for a co-ordinated policy response to resolve the problems...
Banking Crisis - Has the Fed Run Out of Ammo?
- 2008-03-28
LONDON, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The banking crisis is far from over and both the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England seem to be running out of options - says the breakingviews team. Richard Beales in New York calls for the Fed...
Reluctant Government reappoints King
- 2008-01-31
OUTLOOK To reappoint Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England for a second term may have been the right decision, yet the Government will almost certainly have done it through gritted teeth. Behind the scenes, the recriminations have been heated and vitriolic over the disaster of...
Trichet's tough talk is met by stoney silence from bearish Bernanke.
- 2008-01-24
Byline: European and US central banks have different views Sometimes actions speak louder than words. But inaction can be quite informative too, at least when it is backed up by central bank talk. The most recent interest decisions of the Bank of England's Monetary...
Over to you, Mervyn...
- 2008-01-24
BOND OF THE WEEK: The US Federal reserve may have slashed rates, but will the Bank of England follow? Mark Glowrey The US Federal reserve cut rates aggressively this week, with an emergency measure of a 75bp reduction in the official Fed Funds rate,...
Shares bounce back as US cuts loans rate; In association with Chadwick Lawrence
- 2008-01-23
Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter INVESTORS rocked by two days of market turmoil held their nerve today as London's FTSE 100 Index continued its bounce-back. London's leading shares rose by almost 100 points, or 1.7%, as the market opened - building on the 160-point recovery yesterday after...
Federal Reserve rate cut highlights UK's limited freedom of manoeuvre - Cable.
- 2008-01-22
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 January 2008-Liberal Democrats: Federal Reserve rate cut highlights UK's limited freedom of manoeuvre - CableC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22012008 Responding to the US Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by 0.75%, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince...
CENTRAL BANKERS TEAM UP ON RATES
- 2008-01-01
GLOBAL The Federal Reserve got an early Christmas present on December 4 when the Bank of Canada surprised the markets by cutting its overnight target interest rate a quarter point to 4.25%, citing renewed deterioration in the US housing sector and the subprime mortgage market. Two days later,...
Impact of central banks' coordinated action is uncertain
- 2007-12-17
On 12 December, the Fed, the ECB, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank SNB1 announced coordinated moves to provide extra liquidity to short-term credit markets. The measures are meant to address the 'elevated pressures' that these markets have faced in recent weeks. By...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Andrew Bailey | Executive Director, Banking & Chief Cashier |
| Charles Bean | Executive Director and Chief Economist |
| Spencer Dale | Executive Director, Chief Economist |
| John Footman | Executive Director, Central Services |
| Nigel Jenkinson | Executive Director, Financial Stability |
| Paul Fisher | Executive Director, Markets |
| Paul Tucker | Executive Director, Markets |
| Adrian Piper | Agent |
| Chris Brown | Agent |
| Christopher Bailey | Agent |
| David Buffham | Agent |
| George Sampson | |
| Graham Nicholson | |
| Herbert Baker | |
| John Bartlett | Agent |
| John Soane | |
| John Whitley | Agent |
| John Young | Agent |
| Juliet Wheldon | |
| Kevin Butler | Agent |
| Paul Fullerton | Agent |
| Peter Andrews | Agent |
| Phil Eckersley | Agent |
| Timothy Besley | Professor |
| Tony Strachan | Agent |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Charles Goodhart | Chairman |
| Andrew Sentance | Board of Directors |
| David Blanchflower | Board of Directors |
| Harrison Young | Board of Directors |
| Kate Barker | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Executive Director, Banking & Chief Cashier | Current |
| Allgold of Sevenoaks | Current | |
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| Risk Limited | Senior Manager | Former |
| The London School of Economics | Research Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Executive Director and Chief Economist | Current |
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| The London School of Economics | Lecturer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Executive Director, Chief Economist | Current |
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Executive Director, Central Services | Current |
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Executive Director, Financial Stability | Current |
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| University of Birmingham | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Executive Director, Markets | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Executive Director, Markets | Current |
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Current |
Graham Nicholson qualified with Freshfields in September 1971 and became a partner in 1980 while working in the firm's New York office. He helped establish the firm's first Asian office in Singapore later that year and, following his return to London, became departmental managing partner of the company department in 1986 (which later divided to become the corporate and finance departments). Graham was also managing partner of the firm between 1990 and 1993, before returning to full time practice. Graham's work has spanned a wide range of the firm's clients over the years. Most recently he has been well known for his work with a range of financial institutions clients, such as the London Stock Exchange on its listing, offers and proposed offers in recent years; Zurich Financial Services on a wide range of transactions, and Lloyd's and Equitas on the reconstruction of the Lloyd's insurance market in 1996 and the subsequent progress of Equitas. He is also relationship partner for Rolls Royce. Graham read law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and attended the Advanced Manager Program at Harvard Business School in 1990.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rolls Royce | Partner | Current |
| Bank of England | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Current | |
| Depart-Ment | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Professor | Current |
| The London School of Economics | Professor of Economics and Political Science | Current |
| Voxeu.Org | Current | |
| Econometric Society | Fellow | Current |
| University of Oxford | Former | |
| Econometric Society | Chair | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Agent | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| British Airways | Chief Economist | Former |
| British Airways | Head of Environmental Affairs | Former |
| The London School of Economics | Former | |
| Society of Business Economists | Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Labor Company | Fellow | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of England | Board of Directors | Current |
Executive News
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Glance-PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - Aug 26
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BoE Bean-cbanks need tools to tackle asset prices
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BOE's King Sought Even More Stimulus
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Division within BOE surprises markets
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BoE split on size of monetary stimulus
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BoE split on QE stimulus rise; King wanted more
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UPDATE 3-BoE split on QE stimulus rise; King wanted more
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UPDATE 2-UK cbankers split on stimulus rise; King wanted more
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UK cbankers split on stimulus rise; King wanted more
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BoE split on 50 bln QE increase, King wanted 75 bln
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UPDATE 1-BoE split on 50 bln QE increase, King wanted 75 bln
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UK Business Credit Availability Is Hitting Consumers Too
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BOE Aug Minutes: Governor King Voted For GBP200 Billion Bond Buying
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BoE MPC voted 6-3 for 50 bln QE increase, King wanted 75 bln
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RPT-PREVIEW-BoE QE vote seen unanimous; fireworks if any split
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PREVIEW-BoE QE vote seen unanimous; fireworks if any split
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UPDATE 1-BoE's Sentance sees UK return to growth in '09-paper
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Is Britain's Economy on the Mend?
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King raises stakes in UK inflation gamble
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The impact of quantitative easing: When to call a halt
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