09/25/2013
Nicola Horlick: "Crowdfunding is a drug going straight into the lifeblood of the economy"
City Superwoman Nicola Horlick is a crowdfunding convert following the success of her recent project on Seedrs, raising £150,000
Comment & Analysis
09/25/2013
Chief Secretary announces Government action on tax avoidance by George Bull
Danny Alexander’s surprise announcement last week, and why it’s about time the Government acknowledged that once again, it’s got to the wrong place but for some of the right reasons.
09/25/2013
It is the regulators who now pose the biggest threats to financial stability
Try as you might, it’s hard to feel any sympathy for Britain’s banks.
09/24/2013
Jersey’s finance industry contributes some 40% of total GVA
Jersey Finance has issued the following comment in response to the latest economic performance figures to be issued by the States of Jersey.
09/23/2013
Keeping the markets guessing - HSBC Private Bank
Deferred, not discarded
09/23/2013
Why philanthropy is R&D for business
We often measure the impact of corporate philanthropy by counting the number of individuals who are helped by a particular program.
09/23/2013
The cost of concord - St. James's Place
As salvors righted the wreck of a super-sized floating pleasure palace from the Tuscan seabed last week, it brought to mind the eurozone's own Herculean challenge to haul the region from the financial rocks it hit five years ago.
09/22/2013
There are times when the French seem to do a far better impersonation of Eeyore than we do
Depressed, lugubrious, and always assuming the worst; normally that is a good reflection of the British domestic attitude to life.
09/22/2013
Investment Consultants Focus on Retail - RESEARCH
Another Distribution Channel for Asset Managers
09/22/2013
Coutts' commentary - Global Views from Asia - “Five Years On”
This past week marked the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Still, five years on, the global economy finds itself high on the drug of easy money.
09/22/2013
Revenge of the Nerds
Equity markets are showing the most promising prospects
09/22/2013
Five Years On: The New Regulators
The 2008 financial crisis sent shockwaves around the world, prompting the government to reconsider the way the financial industry is regulated.
09/19/2013
Tax avoidance – but who are the real goodies and baddies? by George Bull
The old days were great – you were either a goodie or a baddie – and that was it. Simple. But in the new world of tax, we just can’t work out who’s who any more…
09/15/2013
Look out the Investment Bankers are back! by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Good news - companies have been sitting on a lot of cash: bad news - they haven't been spending it.
09/14/2013
StanChart to open 100 branches in Africa by 2016
It plans to focus on SMEs and private banking
09/13/2013
Banks are still "too big to fail", says SNB chairman
Authorities have been grappling since the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers five years ago with the question of how banks regarded as systemically important, or too-big-to-fail, can be recapitalised without causing panic or needing taxpaye
09/12/2013
Five Years on From Lehman Brothers - Schroders
15th September 2013 marks the 5th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
09/11/2013
Credit Suisse Study: Swiss Credit Handbook 2013
Swiss issuers remain solid in a difficult environment
09/11/2013
HMRC may repay billions following tax appeal by David Wilson
A recent Court of Justice of the European Union tax appeal could see HMRC repaying several billion pounds to UK taxpayers. Now that could put the kibosh on the taxman’s Christmas party….
09/10/2013
Man Versus Machine by Standard Life Investment
In the latest edition of Global Horizons Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, examines how investors can use behavioural finance to improve their understanding of markets and enhance decision making.