PB Week: Press week, Barry Smith’s ‘new job’ and the Connaught Hotel

It has been a busy week putting the April edition to bed writes Andrew Tjaardstra, editor of Professional Broking. We hope you enjoy the issue when it hits your desks towards the end of next week.

Meanwhile on the way to work today [27 March 2009] it came as a great surprise to see Barry Smith, chief executive of Fortis UK's insurance arm, in today's City AM - a free London paper covering business news - being heralded as the chief executive of Fortis Bank. On page three underneath a smiling Barry, it reads: "Fortis Bank Nederland yesterday reported a loss of €18.5bn (£17.3bn), largely due to a writedown on the value of ABN Amro, which it acquired as part of a consortium including RBS

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