09/02/2013
The $10m-revenge of Paul Taubman, the man Morgan Stanley didn’t choose
It was an impossibly tough decision to make: both men were highly regarded.
09/01/2013
It was James Mackintosh in the FT 'Short view' column who quite rightly reminded us of that wonderful Motown ditty by Edwin Starr - "War, huh. What is it good for? Absolutely nuttin."
09/01/2013
The index quantifies the accumulated wealth of 30 countries’ built assets and takes into account the value of all the public and private property and infrastructure in a countr
09/01/2013
Bonds and cash are no longer safe havens, they guarantee a loss.
08/31/2013
Five years after the collapse Lehman Brothers, the European financial system is still not equipped to cope with a bank failure of a similar magnitude
08/30/2013
He steered the fund and its investors through problems such as the 1997 Asian crisis
08/29/2013
IPS releases 20-year review showing that nearly 40 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are not so great at their jobs.
08/28/2013
New York-based investment bank Jefferies Group LLC plans to hire up to four investment bankers for its first Moscow office
08/28/2013
Having previously considered that non-doms who are paying tax on the remittance basis are well enough advised, HMRC has performed a U-turn and sent them letters to remind them of the rules anyway.
08/27/2013
It was carrying €5 billion in notes-not a bailout, but an epic logistical effort to sate the Cypriot desire for paper money
08/27/2013
Concern that probable military strikes by Western powers against Syria could cause upheaval in the Middle East pushed oil up by more than $2 a barrel on Wednesday
08/27/2013
Austerity has failed to bring public finances and debt under control.
08/26/2013
National Bank of Abu Dhabi has been named the safest bank in the Middle East by Global Finance, a leading finance publication, which ranked the Abu Dhabi-based lender 35th safest in the world.
08/26/2013
Overly simple regulation will make banks and the industry more prone to crisis, says Peter Sands
08/26/2013
A survey of professionals in Singapore's financial services industry shows that more than three quarters work over and above their contracted hours
08/25/2013
Plunging emerging market currencies on the prospect of US stimulus tapering have stirred memories of the 1997 Asian financial crisis
08/25/2013
Markets remain nervous ahead of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting in September, and we expect equities to remain within their current trading range until then.
08/25/2013
There was such a total lack of awareness from the firms that paid big bonuses during this extraordinary time.
08/24/2013
The Financial Services Authority’s Retail Distribution Review came in at the beginning of this year.
08/22/2013
Financial and economic crises have become more frequent since the late 1990s.