Julian Hofmann

One of the most common investor complaints is that management often has little real stake in a business, with the awarding of share options and long-term incentive plans largely guaranteed whatever the performance. Therefore, it is interesting to see an incoming senior manager spend an entire year’s salary in buying shares on the open market, which is exactly what the London Stock Exchange’s new chief financial officer Michel-Alain Proch has done. Proch spent £843,000 buying up a total of 9,31…

Metro Bank has not been far from the headlines this autumn after the struggling institution issued new debt, refinanced existing borrowings and completed a £150mn equity raise that has seen Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski Bacal take effective control of the bank — raising his stake from 9.2 per cent to a dominant 53 per cent. Shareholders approved the cash call last week, and chief executive David Frumkin and chief financial officer James Hopkinson backed the deeply discounted fundraising…

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