He put forward a plan to cut costs and transform Matsui from a stodgy, old-fashioned stockbroking firm into a discount stockbroker.
Barry Townsley, a stockbroker who lent £1m; Sir David Garrard, a property developer who lent £2.3m; Chai Patel, head of the Priory Clinics, who lent £1.5m; and Sir Gulam Noon, the so-called "curry king", who lent £250,000.
When Tom phoned earlier to book a taxi, the controller had asked if he was a druid – he's not, he's a stockbroker.
Its eggs-act (sorry) origin is unclear, but one theory suggests that Lemuel Benedict – socialite, stockbroker, raffish-man-about-town – "invented" eggs Benedict in 1894, when, in an emergency attempt to stave off a hangover, he ordered a combination of toast, bacon, eggs and hollandaise at New York's Waldorf Hotel.
"It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money," the son of a stockbroker said, hopefully, "and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB – general wellbeing".
He also has the Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street, in which he portrays a New York stockbroker, set for release later this year.
This year, there's The Wolf of Wall Street: an accurate adaptation of delinquent stockbroker Jordan Belfort's memoir, but so unquestioning of it and of him (Belfort has a self-aggrandising cameo in the film, and stands to make a packet from it) that it undermines its own claim to be satire.
Room for improvement: An extremely faithful rendering of stockbroker Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
"I've never worked on Wall Street, I've never been a stockbroker.
At the same time, supermarkets are pruning the assortment of goods on shelves and consumers are shifting from name brands to supermarkets' own-label nosh.Factories producing packaged food are operating well below capacity, notes Thilo Wrede of Jefferies, a stockbroker.
That is easier said than done, says Manoj Menon of Kotak, a stockbroker.
