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Andrew Hill is an Associate Editor of the FT. He has been City Editor of the FT and editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance since September 2006.
He was the FT’s Financial Editor from June 2005 to September 2006, with overall responsibility for coverage of companies and markets. Before becoming Financial Editor, he was the FT’s Comment & Analysis Editor, in charge of the paper’s opinion and features pages.
From 1999 to 2003, he was the FT’s New York Bureau Chief. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as foreign news editor, UK companies reporter and correspondent in Brussels and Milan. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1987 with a first-class degree in English.
He was named Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.
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Reed and digest: lessons in succession
We know Reed Elsevier’s transfer from Sir Crispin Davis to Ian Smith was ‘seamless’ – but nothing can smooth over a transition to the wrong person
Financial engineers have not stood test of time
Sir John Rose would have been forgiven for standing up at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce on Tuesday night and simply saying: ’I told you so’
Kraft decides to string it out rather than bid it up
Kraft’s formal offer for Cadbury is virtually unchanged from the unsolicited approach first revealed in September. In fact, it contained fewer fireworks than on Bonfire Night at the Health and Safety Executive
When banks abuse customers’ trust
In finance, abuse of trust is nowhere more corrosive than in the relationship between a bank and its clients
C&W will still need to telegraph its demerger details
As a company that built its reputation forging telegraph links over long distances, Cable and Wireless knows how to stretch things out. So it should come as no surprise that we have to wait for more details of its long-planned demerger
Brussels and Treasury hand rivals a stick to beat RBS
The ‘behavioural’ conditions imposed on Royal Bank of Scotland’s global banking and markets team were part of the swamp of detail on how its competitive position should be hobbled, says Andrew Hill
Battle for Britain’s banking system: a casualty list
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. Andrew Hill asks, who will come out best from the battle for Britain’s banks?
House prices still horribly out of kilter with real life
Housing demand is rising as homes and mortgages become cheaper. But the data are also flattered by thin supply; once more sellers jump on the bandwagon, price rises become less assured
Stagecoach need not lose too much sleep
The Stagecoach chief executive is discovering that cheap rail tickets are often more hassle than they are worth as his bid to hop aboard National Expxress has been foiled twice
Darling, you know how to make a bank happy
Chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, is set to hand the recalcitrant Lloyds Banking Group the get out of jail (almost) free card it was angling for – and a few bells and whistles, too
