Biography:
About: With the The Sunday Times for 16 years with the last four and a half years as Business Editor and the previous four years as Deputy Business Editor, ref/more See also profile at PR Week
Education:
Career: Harlow and Bishop's Stortford Gazette and Estates Times; joined The Sunday Times, 1994: city correspondent, deputy city editor, promoted to business editor in September 2005; left The Times in 2009 to become a managing director of the PR company Financial Dynamics, appointed head of FD UK in 2011
Current position/role: Head of FD UK
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Awards/Honours: Twice shortlisted for the UK Press Gazette Business journalist of the year award.
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The Sunday Times:
Column name: Agenda
Remit/Info: Business and finance
Section: Business
Role: Business editor
Pen-name:
Email: john.waples@sunday-times.co.uk
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Website: Business / Columnists
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Day published: Sunday
Regularity: Weekly
Column format: Lead item, plus two, three, or four more items
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Articles:
- Greece shows fragility of recovery - At the heart of recovery must be a determination to root out corruption and open its markets to international business - 31st January 2010
- America, go global on bank reforms - When an issue like banking reform is hijacked by a politician bent on winning back support, we should be concerned - 24th January 2010
- Kraft: time to step up or ship out - One thing stands between Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of Kraft, and her ambition to take over Cadbury — price - 17th January 2010
- Ideal time for Osmond’s distressed asset fund - The corporate world is full of companies bought in deals financed with only a sliver of equity and the remainder with debt - 10th January 2010
- Misery and opportunity meet in 2010 - A number of companies have managed to paper over the cracks but for those on the wrong end, it will not be a happy scenario - 3rd January 2010
- Challenges that lie ahead are very real - If you take the view that next year will be bumpy, take a look at the Bank of England’s last Financial Stability Report - 20th December 2009
- Alistair Darling's coup is a body blow to London - The City can win back its reputation but it should do so under the umbrella of international and unilateral regulation - 13th December 2009
- Bosses’ bonuses next under spotlight - The focus has been on bankers, but remuneration packages enjoyed at public companies will soon come to investor attention - 6th December 2009
- Dubai's debt crisis is a lesson to us all - If the overborrowed emirate state can flirt with bankruptcy, then why not overborrowed Ireland, Greece, Iceland - and Britain? - 29th November 2009
- No time for Cadbury to show flakiness - The group is beginning to look like a victim in this drawn-out bid battle, not the iconic international confectioner that it is - 22nd November 2009
- Cazenove: So much is owed to so few - The timing of the deal is unfortunate. It will add to the hue and cry over excessive bonuses and general fat cattery - 15th November 2009
- Listen to the bosses’ optimism - When three chief executives call an end to the recession — even though it has not officially ended — we should take heart - 8th November 2009
- Hayward wants BP revolution to last - BP’s chief executive aims to end the man-made disasters which has repeatedly destroyed all the good work done by the oil giant - 1st November 2009
- Goldman Sachs bonuses should lead to a windfall tax - Goldman Sachs’s ability to convince some that the tax paid to the UK Treasury was justification for its huge profits is flawed - 18th October 2009
- Penalising high earners could cost us all dear - The government needs to tread a fine line between balancing the books and stifling growth that will get us out of recession - 11th October 2009
- Serious Fraud Office’s phoney war will end in settlement - One thing puzzles me about the Serious Fraud Office’s pursuit of BAE Systems, our biggest defence contractor. If investigators have established a solid case against the company, then why not simply press charges? - 4th October 2009
- Duo needed for poisoned chalice - ITV doesn’t do happy endings. Whoever takes the chairman’s or the chief executive’s job always ends up with a knife in their back - 27th September 2009
- Can Ball’s talent match his arrogance? - The search for ITV’s new chief executive has been a long-running saga that would have done Coronation Street proud - 20th September 2009
- Cadbury’s survival rests on Todd Stitzer’s vision - Todd Stitzer must convince investors he can achieve his ambition of growing margins to 15% by 2011 and share prices can lift - 13th September 2009
- Lloyds must join government scheme - For all the bluster about the cost of joining the government’s asset protection plan, Lloyds has little choice but to sign up - 6th September 2009
- Road to the top job need not be rocky - Succession planning is always a tricky, when it involves a chief executive stepping up to chairman it can become a minefield - 30th August 2009
- City slow to forgive recession losers - If a businessman has been associated with a corporate disaster, investors are usually reluctant to see them return to power - 23rd August 2009
- Laws on bonuses could destroy City - The unpalatable truth about big City bonuses is that they are unstoppable. The model mimics what has happened in football - 16th August 2009
- Insurance isn’t sexy, but vital to the UK - The contribution made by the insurance sector is largely invisible, but that doesn’t mean the government shouldn’t nurture it - 26th July 2009
- Cowdery's resolution must quit Guernsey - Until Cowdery agrees to move acquisition vehicle’s domicile, Friends shareholders should give him a wide berth - 19th July 2009
- Willie Walsh tries to wrestle BA out of its nosedive - His frank appraisal of the airline’s future — “a fight for survival” — jars with staff and some shareholders - 12th July 2009
- Cynthia Carroll's job is on the line - Carroll is under pressure after making enemies within the company - and some investors believe cost savings are coming too slowly - 28th June 2009
- Better banking control needs global solution - To prevent another economic downturn, the financial sector must avoid a knee-jerk response and not rush into new regulation - 21st June 2009
- How Bob Diamond took Barclays into the top league of investment banks - The deal with Lehman is still the talk of the town - 14th June 2009
- Make it in New York and you can make it anywhere - Barclays has set out ambitious plans to become a top three global investment bank. That is a vision not without risk - 14th June 2009
- Days of open-ended pension promises are over - The decade of easy profits and cheap credit are over, the bubble has been pricked and it will not be reinflated any time soon - 7th June 2009
- GM: it’s the fallout we should worry about - There is a limit to what our government can do to resist redundancies at Vauxhall - 31st May 2009 (see: General Motors to file for bankruptcy)
- Furse leading L&G would be the best insurance - There is a huge shortage of people in financial services whose reputations have not been tarnished by the crash - 24th May 2009
- West Brom’s painful reminder of our woes - The financial shock at West Bromwich is more a tremor than an earthquake. But we should not underestimate its importance - 17th May 2009
- Lloyds' Bank and the need for a sacrificial lamb - Is the top team at Lloyd's Bank the right one to lead the group forward? - 10th May 2009
- Banks' success comes at a price for business - Banks pick and choose whom they lend to and it is becoming daylight robbery. Days of banking relationships have gone forever - 3rd May 2009
- Darling's high premium on success - Those who say it only captures a minority miss the point. It is the message sent out which is the most damaging element - 26th April 2009
- Accountants now make the calls at BT - In the Verwaayen era it appears BT was long on strategy, spin and optimism, but short on financial delivery. The share price says it all - 12th April 2009
- HSBC’s success is also a triumph for the City - The fundraising can already be called a triumph — not just for the bank but also for London - 5th April 2008
- False hopes that recovery is around the corner - All we have achieved so far is to make the banks strong enough to to endure the economic blitz that is starting to unfold - 29th March 2009
- Mandelson must pick winners from the car crash - Talk of a brave new world of electric vehicles cannot disguise the fact that British carmaking is gripped by a crisis - 22nd March 2009
- Turmoil at heart of the global economy - The government must ensure that our industrial base is fit and the downturn does not damage our long-term competitive future - 15th March 2009
- A 1980s-style slump may be as bad as it gets - The HBOS takeover may prove to be viable over time, but the dilution of ordinary investors means they are unlikely to enjoy it - 8th March 2009
- HSBC’s triumph has been to stay independent - The benefits of avoiding government cash are huge - 1st March 2009
- Bonus genie can’t be put back into the bottle - Bankers are often their own worst enemies but it’s important to get this row over bonuses into context - 15th February 2009
- Daniels in the lion's den as takeover turns sour - It was only last October that Eric Daniels, chief executive of Lloyds TSB, was hailed as a hero when he rescued HBOS from oblivion - 15th February 2009
- Bonus genie can’t be put back into the bottle - Bankers are often their own worst enemies but it’s important to get this row over bonuses into context - 8th February 2009
- Standing firm against protectionism - The free movement of labour must be encouraged within the EU and any move towards protectionism must be stamped on - 1st February 2009
- Barclays crisis an issue of credibility - The blunt truth is that Barclays has a credibility issue; the City does not believe it has owned up to the scale of its problems - 25th January 2009
- Fast-track a financial meltdown? - The market is convinced Barclays is sitting on a toxic timebomb. That’s why its shares cratered 25% on Friday - 18th January 2009
- UK plc is at the mercy of auditors - There are firms where auditors will be reluctant to sign off accounts without a full explanation, and it will spook investors - 11th January 2009
- Corporate pragmatism will get us out of this mess - I knew the warning signs were flashing, but had no idea about the enormity of what was to unfold - 4th January 2009
- Why UK carmakers need a financial jump start - The factories stand idle at the moment only because of a once-in-a-lifetime collapse in sales caused by the banking crisis - 14th December 2008
- Businesses look after themselves - Companies around the world are now starting to realise that radical action is needed to prepare for such unprecedented events - 7th December 2008
- Watch Albanese wield the axe at Rio - The abandoned takeover of Rio Tinto highlights how the business world has switched from one of unlimited opportunity to one of retrenchment - 30th November 2008
- Brown must help business - big and small - 23rd November 2008
- Will a state bank herald a return to the 1970s? - 16th November 2008
- HBOS plotters don’t know what lies beneath - HBOS needs a strong balance sheet, as does Lloyds, and the combined entity stands a better chance of prospering than do two marooned independent banks - 9th November 2008
- Barclays proves UK is not in control - British investors' pockets are not as deep as the Saudi's and Barclays has gone to where the new wealth and economic power is - 4th November 2008
- Telling the truth makes grim reading - Anyone hoping that problems have been solved and that we'll not have problems in the wider economy is living in cloud cuckoo land - 19th October 2008
- No accounting for bankers’ greed - We have had a period of reckless overlending, and now we'll have the opposite - overcharging dressed up as cautious banking - 5th October 2008
- Just a hint of weakness is fatal in this market - The extraordinary events of the past 12 months have proved one thing - perception is enough to kill - 28th September 2008
- We'll all pay for damage to the wider economy - 21st September 2008
- Lehman can only blame itself for disaster - The bank could still re-emerge a very powerful firm, but its fall from grace shows how brutal the global liquidity crisis is - 14th September 2008
- Tough times ahead for the first dame of the LSE - Clara Furse, head of the London Stock Exchange, has shown she can handle herself in battle, but now she has to do it again - 7th September 2008
- UK plc has fewer reasons to be cheerful - Companies are accepting that they will have to hunker down for the next 18 months - 24th August 2008
- Regulation, not competition, will shape airports - When the Competition Commission decrees that BAA’s monopoly of airports should be broken up, the news will be met with glee - 16th August 2008
- Get used to volatility: the hedgies are in control - The days of the fund managers controlling the destiny of our corporate giants are long gone - 27th July 2008
- Russian roulette as oiligarchs battle over TNK - After the destruction of Yukos and marginalisation of Royal Dutch Shell at the Sakhalin gas field, TNK is next on the list - 20th July 2008
- Why Texas was the right decision for Bradford & Bingley - 8th June 2008
- Here comes the wave of profit warnings - 1st June 2008
- Big boardroom pay deals can still make sense - 25th May 2008
- British Airways will stay on course despite the turbulence - 18th May 2008
- Charles Dunstone keys into the laptop phenomenon - 11th May 2008
- Alastair Darling must stop multinationals moving their tax domiciles - 4th May 2008
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