02/27/2015
Banks including UBS Group AG, Credit Suisse Group AG and J. Safra Sarasin Holding AG have levied charges on some cash accounts after the Swiss National Bank last month began charging 0.75 percent interest to hold francs.
02/27/2015
The private bank's parent company, Royal Bank of Scotland, said the inquiry was focussed on its Swiss operation, including current and former employees.
02/27/2015
The disclosure shows the lengths to which Carlyle went to poach Michael Cavanagh in a bid to attract top talent and diversify its business.
02/27/2015
“It was a year in which active management via active managers paid handsome dividends, and the collective experience we are able to bring to bear at Bordier (UK) shines through in the outstanding numbers we have once more delivered for our clients.
02/27/2015
France will soon hand over to Austria tax data linked to leaked client data of lender HSBC Holdings Plc which has admitted failings in compliance at its Swiss private bank
02/26/2015
Dubai is adjusting regulation of investment firms that handle the money of wealthy people in its financial free zone
02/26/2015
HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Stuart Gulliver told U.K. lawmakers the scandal over the role the company’s Swiss private banking unit played in helping clients dodge taxes was the product of a different era
02/26/2015
Royal Bank of Canada Bahamas unit faulted in probe of tax fraud, money laundering
Royal Bank of Canada, Canada’s second-largest lender, said French prosecutors are recommending a Bahamas wealth-management unit be punished in a probe of tax fraud and money laundering.
02/26/2015
The country's wealthier investors are more optimistic than ever before.
02/26/2015
HSBC bosses rejected calls from British lawmakers for them to quit over the bank's Swiss tax scandal
02/26/2015
Goldman Sachs’s latest financial report shows that the company avoided paying federal income taxes on almost half its United States profits in 2014
02/26/2015
Morgan Stanley’s army of wealth managers sure have a lot of free time on their hands. So much so that executives there have apparently crafted a video spoofing The Hunger Games movie.
02/26/2015
Secrets to Managing Multiple Offices
With the growth of the RIA channel and active M&A environment, many firms are branching out and opening new offices
02/26/2015
Swiss Banks Try to Keep Italian Clients After Tax Deal Is Signed
Swiss asset managers, faced with the prospect of an exodus of Italian funds, have won a reprieve.
02/26/2015
Elite Swiss Private Bankers Still Earning Millions, EFG CEO Says
Some bankers face an uncertain employment future as their firms struggle to withstand pressure on profits after years of low interest rates, an international crackdown on tax evasion and the sudden appreciation of the country's currency in January.
02/26/2015
Private Wealth Management Professional Track will be held for the first time on October 18-21, 2015 at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus, and is led by some of Wharton’s most esteemed finance faculty and IPI founder Charlotte Beyer.
02/26/2015
Swiss-based global private banking group to expand business in Bermuda
The Swiss-based global private banking group operates from 30 locations worldwide, including the Bahamas and Cayman, and has around 2000 employees.
02/25/2015
First comes the boutique investment bank, then comes the boutique bank merger.
02/25/2015
JPMorgan has acknowledged that it simply can't afford to screw up anymore.
02/25/2015
Vestra Wealth’s founding partner David Scott became a Wealth Manager cover star a year after what he admits was a ‘difficult birth’ for the then fledging company.