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    Kate Burgess

    Lombard Editor

    Kate Burgess has worked at the FT since 1998, during which time she was a UK companies correspondent, investment correspondent and corporate correspondent. Before that she worked for some years in the City as a stock broker and stock market analyst.

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    • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
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      Debt, derivatives and deadlines: Lombardier bows out after 25 years covering the Square Mile

    • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
      LombardIQE PLC
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      Semiconductor maker might be turning a corner; Greencore squeezes in last minute cash call

    • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
      LombardRSA Insurance Group PLC
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      Intact and Tryg offer shareholders welcome certainty; Croda confounds with move into fragrances

    • Monday, 16 November, 2020
      LombardVodafone Group PLC
      Vodafone’s shareholders need to keep their eyes on the big prize

      Prospect of payouts and manageable debt should cheer investors; G4S plays defence

    • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
      Lombard3i Group PLC
      3i’s past is an action plan for the future

      3i template for post-pandemic regeneration fund; GVC, a card or so short of a full deck

    • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
      LombardProperty sector
      Vaccine breakthrough is shot in the arm for Landsec

      Outlook brightens for office landlords; Premier Foods finds way out of bargain bin

    • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
      LombardRetail & Consumer industry
      M&S sticks to its knitting in another remake costing millions

      Multiple makeovers hit UK retailer; Distance is a poor excuse for bad practice in timeshare selling

    • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
      LombardAssociated British Foods PLC
      Prudent Primark owner is right to keep hold of cash

      Associated British Foods doesn’t pay a dividend; Telit still can’t escape Oozi Cats

    • Monday, 2 November, 2020
      LombardUK banks
      How UK banks’ brighter outlook can be squared with second lockdown

      Message to watchdog to lift lockdown on dividends unchanged; Howden reaps kitchen boom

    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      LombardInternational Airlines Group
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      IAG grounds expectations as bookings fall; Shaftesbury taps shareholders to weather coronavirus storm

    • Monday, 19 October, 2020
      LombardAccounting & Consulting services
      Auditors can cut free but Boohoo needs a credible successor to PwC

      PwC puts distance between it and Boohoo; Amigo battles on

    • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
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      Asos wants to be seen as a cut above; Covid-19 bumps up Bunzl

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      LombardUK small companies
      Last orders loom for big indebted pub groups

      National inn chains suffer as new lockdown policy heralds more pub closures

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      LombardPearson PLC
      Pearson’s chairman needs more lessons on how to say ‘no’

      Sidney Taurel risks being cut from the middle of Pearson’s muddle; UK banks beware negative interest rates

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      LombardFinablr Ltd
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      LombardCineworld Group PLC
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      LombardIPOs
      Why the Spac mania won’t bridge the Atlantic

      Spac ETF marks high-water mark in the US; Halfords defies Haldane; Renewi wastes

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