02/14/2014
Aberdeen CEO wants UK banks to become "boring"
Britain's banks should scale back investment banking, focus on domestic markets, hold more in deposits than they lend and pay bigger dividends
02/14/2014
UBS Wealth Management forecasts suggest corporate spend likely to create more balanced economic growth
02/14/2014
Quarter by quarter offshore deal volumes rose steadily throughout 2013, resulting in a cumulative 12-month deal value topped only three times in the last decade, according to a report released today by Appleby, one of the world’s largest providers o
02/14/2014
The nuclear and banking industries share a common feature.
02/14/2014
The rankings cover all areas of banking business and all categories of clients, from private individuals to large corporates and institutional clients.
02/14/2014
Nicholas Fitzgerald, Head of Financial Planning for wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, commented: “It is no surprise that the FCA’s review has concluded that the annuities market is not working.
02/13/2014
While women have risen to lead companies in other industries, including at Hewlett-Packard Co. and General Motors Co., there are no female chief executive officers at the biggest Wall Street banks.
02/12/2014
Benz tipped to drive change at StanChart private bank
Long-time UBS hand Michael Benz joins Standard Chartered private bank next week as CEO. If he has a strong mandate, change is forecast and major hires could be on the way.
02/11/2014
Swiss multi-asset manager goes East
Independent alternative multi-asset management firm headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been going through many transformations since the crisis of 2008.
02/11/2014
Many people are suggesting that the recent volatility in emerging markets will trigger a repeat of the 1994 or 1998 crises. We don’t think this is the case. This is not an emerging world in huge debt to the rest of the world – and in fact some
02/11/2014
Overall, 91% of IFAs are either 'very' or 'quite' favourable towards European equities, up from 63% 12 months ago. For the UK, 93% are favourable, up from 79%.
02/11/2014
Almost one in every four employees (39%) thinks that their boss dislikes them
02/11/2014
There was a big sigh of relief on Friday from tax professionals involved in completing tax returns for individuals, having worked long into the January evenings and weekends.
02/11/2014
Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet. It covers a huge range of illegal activity including financial scams, computer hacking, virus attacks and stalking by e-mail.
02/10/2014
Fed and ECB policies aim to reassure financial market participants rather than keeping them guessing. In the “good old days”, before quantitative easing, forward guidance and zero real interest rates, investors, asset managers, traders and ban
02/10/2014
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard answers your questions about the global economy amid tightening in the US and China, ECB inaction and emerging markets turmoil
02/10/2014
Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase and Gerald Hassell’s Bank of New York Mellon could learn a thing or two from a financial crisis that occurred some time ago—in 1763, to be precise.
02/10/2014
Wealth, among other things, buys the ability to innovate without constraints or boundaries, writes Mykolas D. Rambus, CEO of Wealth X.
02/10/2014
Political and financial upheaval in some of the world’s largest emerging economies is driving a new wave of rich migrants to London’s supercharged property market as a place to park their wealth.
02/10/2014
REMAP portfolios seek diversification in infrastructure & currencies