JILTED lovers and misogynists oftenfind February’s romantic festivitieshard to swallow, so to keep solidarityup they’re meeting at the Royal Ex-change this weekend.

Daryush “Roosh” Val-izadeh, a self-proclaimed“pick-up artist” who wasfamously interviewed bythe BBC over the Men’sRights Movement and hisattempts to teach blokesto chat to womenfolk, isorganising an “Interna-tional Meetup Day” for hisloyal following.

There will be 165 meetups world-wide at 8pm on Saturday for Menin-ists to mingle and talk about howawful women are, and London hasbeen blessed with two meetups: oneof which, says Valizadeh, is “in frontof the Royal Exchange.”We weren’t sure why waiting under-

Brace yourselves, theMeninist movement iscoming to the City...

neath the statue of the Duke ofWellington at the Royal Exchangeseemed like a good idea, and neitherwere its spokespeople. Apparently no

one at the high-end mall knowsanything about a meninist

gathering or will even be

around for it, as theshopping centre closes on

weekends. The spokesperson was very

keen to distance the high-end retailerfrom the group, stressing that thespot of land the chaps have chosen tomeet at is ten whole meters from thethe property’s boundary. “Anythingfurther than the stairs isn’t ours!”. He also added that the security team

will be on site as per usual.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY...

From the head ofJeep’s US sales ReidBigland, on the motormaker’s successdespite stormyweather last month.Who cares aboutnature, anyway?

HAGUE THINKS MOBILISING THEEU IS LIKE HERDING KITTENS

The Capitalistwonders what William Haguemakes of David Cameron’s “Red Card”idea? Part of the PM’s new deal withEuropean Comission president DonaldTusk means that EU legislation can bevetoed by the UK, provided 55 per cent ofmember states agree. However, Haguethinks that getting 14 EuropeanParliaments to vote with us is about aseasy as herding kittens. Back in 2008, hesaid: “even if the European Commissionproposed the slaughter of the first-born itwould be difficult to achieve such aremarkable conjunction of parliamentaryvotes.” And he’s campaigning for Remain.

Mother Naturewas no match forour Jeep brand.

FEBRUARYTuesday 2ndLaunch Party [M Restaurant]Saturday 6th City Ski Championships [Verbier]

APRILWednesday 20thCity Golf Championships [The Grove, Chandler’s Cross]

MAYSunday 22ndThe Neptune City Sevens RugbyChampionships [Richmond RFC]Friday 27thCity Shooting Championships[West Wycombe]

JUNESunday 19th City Cricket Sixes Championships[Wormsley]

JULYWednesday 20th The Amba Hotels City of LondonMile [Start: St Paul’s Cathedral]

AUGUSTSaturday 13thCity Polo Championships [Ham Polo Club]

SEPTEMBERThursday 22ndCity Cycling Championships [Lee Valley Velodrome]Sept-May City Rugby Championships: 15 aside League [RFCs: Blackheath; Esher;Wimbledon; Charlton Park; EastLondon]

OCTOBERWednesday 16thCity Boxing Championships[Park Lane Hotel]

DECEMBERTBCCity Rowing Championships [Lee Valley Velodrome]

JANUARY2017Thursday 26thAnnual Celebration Dinner TBC

TO THREADNEEDLE Street where fit-ness freaks of the financial district de-scended last night for one last drinkbefore training commences in full forthe annual City Championships. This year, grandees will go head-to-

head in a series of Herculean challengesfrom cricket to polo to be crowned theSquare Mile’s biggest jocks. There’s 11 chances to see bosses in ac-

tion, with all profits going to a range ofcharities, including cancer charity Mag-gie’s, for which City A.M. has pledged toraise £1m to build a support centre at StBart’s Hospital.

The Capitalist joined financial fitnessfanatics at M for the launch party. Suf-fice to say, the City boys were getting allthe booze in they could before trainingcommences.Being so close to Leadenhall Street, it

seemed fitting that a few brokers andinsurers decided to come along. Among those that did was Blackmore

Borley boss Peter Blackmore, but talk ofthe upcoming polo championshipscaused a dispute between him and hisPA. While she adores equine pursuitsand keeps her own horses, he saidthey’re a waste of perfectly good hay.Well, judging by the amount of pints thebrokers at Lloyds can get through, per-haps he’s more of a rugby fan.

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From left-right: City A.M.’s co-founder Lawson Muncaster,M Restaurant owner MartinWilliams, Maggie’s Katie Tait,City Championships organiserSimon Jacot de Boinod,olympic gold medalist SimonHemery (400m hurdle, 1968)

The insurers in the Lloyds building are famous for drinking Leadenhall market’s pubsdry every week, but this time one of the building’s tenants was handing out thebooze. Insurer Sompo Canopius, formerly just Canopius, has changed its name tohonour the firm’s Japanese owners. In celebration of the news, Sompo Canopiushanded out free shots of sake at lunchtime on a Tuesday (well, why not?), while ateam of Japanese martial artists played drums and meditated for a crowd ofenthralled and slightly intoxicated insurers. Maybe this is a ploy to win over newclients in the area? To quote an old proverb from the far-east: “First the man takes adrink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the man.”

PARKER FITZGERALDParker Fitzgerald (PFG), themanagement consultancy, hasnamed Jeremy Scott to itsexecutive board as head ofinstitutional relationships.Jeremy is former globalfinancial services leader andglobal board member at PwCfor 10 years and he was chairof the operations and riskcommittee. His experiencebuilding and managing an international consultingfirm will be central to his role of driving PFG’s client andcommercial strategy.

WHITMAN HOWARDJames Lambert has been appointed as non-executivechairman at institutional stock broker WhitmanHoward. Previously James was chief executive ofRichmond Foods which he successfully listed and thenmerged with Roncadin to form R&R Ice Cream. As wellas being awarded an OBE in 2013, James was namedthe EY UK entrepreneur of the year. James also chairsthe boards of Animalcare Group, Burton’s BiscuitCompany and Wagg Foods.

WEDLAKE BELLLondon law firm Wedlake Bell has appointed twopartners to its commercial property and planningteam. Graham Atkins and Leah Freeman both join from

Druces where they were commercial propertypartners. Graham has particular expertise in advisinghigh-end retail occupiers, such as the global brandHugo Boss, property investors and developers andleisure industry operators. He previously worked atPennington Manches and, before that, DavenportLyons. As well as acting for retailers such as Hugo Boss,Leah has a broad practice encompassing acting fordevelopers of mixed use schemes and institutionalproperty investors.

PROPERTY MOOSEDarren Schindler has been appointed executivechairman of property crowdfunders Property Moose.Most recently, Darren was managing director of

business & commercial banking at Metro Bank.Darren’s role will be to focus on sustaining PropertyMoose’s momentum and building its reputation in thealternative asset class with a strong fintech platform.

MISYSFinancial software company Misys has announcedtoday the appointment of Rob Binns as chief financialofficer. Robb joins Misys from HP, where he was head oftreasury and investor relations. He joined Hewlett-Packard in 2007 from Mercury Interactive and has helda number of senior finance positions in the company,including VP software field operations and VP investorrelations before being appointed vice president andCFO, HP Software in 2014.

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