Wealth and Asset Management

Why wealth managers leave big firms

Gloucestershire wealth management specialists purchases Scottish financial advice firm

Wealth-X Expands Global Dataset Across Europe

UK-wide wealth manager takes over financial advice firm

Brewin builds family law team with qualification launch

Structuring family office investments using Jersey private funds

Executive Moves

UniCredit appoints private banking head in Italy

Herbert Smith Freehills appoints its first openly gay CEO

Tier One Capital appoints new portfolio manager

Kleinwort Hambros strengthens wealth planning team with series of new hires

Independent Wealth Planners UK appoints director

Mirabaud appoints Head of Communications and Marketing

Legal, Regulation & Compliance

Herbert Smith Freehills launches major new trust companies survey

FCA updates webpage on SMCR regime for solo-regulated firms

ESMA issues annual report on administrative and criminal sanctions and other measures under MAR

UK election - Finally Some Certainty by Gary Dugan

Jailed banker’s wife who spent £16m in Harrods attempts to overturn ‘McMafia’ wealth order

EU confirms sustainability disclosure requirements for financial firms

FinTech

Banking Giant ING Exploring Crypto Custody: Report

German Fintechs Rush to Offer Crypto Custody Services Under New Law

FCA announces registration fees for cryptoassets AML/CTF regime

Largest Blockchain Open Account Trade Finance Trial On R3 Completed By Marco Polo Network

Digital bank N26 planning significant investment here

Killik & Co chooses CREALOGIX

Alternative Investments

UAE offers emerging European investors opportunities in an increasingly wide range of sectors

Investing for the Future,Now: Delegation, Sustainability and Investor Engagement

Boris Johnson victory: Boost for the pound, economy and UK financial assets

Cboe Global acquires EuroCCP

France injects €2.5 billion into Africa to finance SMEs

TB Amati UK Smaller Companies Fund celebrates its 21st Birthday

Investment Banking

European Investment Bank dangles Shs61 billion for women entrepreneurs

Top Investment Bank Slashes 1,500 Jobs

New number of shares in Handelsbanken

Deutsche Bank very much impressed by Barclays corporate and investment bank

Deutsche Bank offloads more than $50bn in assets to Goldman Sachs

Deutsche loses more ground in Germany as Wall Street rivals smell blood

Comment, Analysis & Research

Banks, property and utilities benefit from Boris bounce

What Johnson's landslide victory means for markets: CIOs react

UK votes for Brexit, significant changes to follow, thinks ZEDRA

City reaction to election: Businesses happy but Brexit warnings continue

Private investors react bullishly to election result

14 Hottest Digital-First Challenger Banks by Country in Europe

Tax

UK taxman overtaxed more than 460,000 people last year

TMF Group acquisition paves the way for new opportunities along the China-German economic corridor

Distributions from foreign opaque trusts: new tax rules for Italian beneficiaries

Danny Murphy loses £1m Coutts tax avoidance battle

Warning tax change could spark outflows from property funds

World’s superrich are renting London properties to avoid new taxes

Retail Banking

Dutch and German Banks Working on Development of Crypto Custody Solutions: Report

HSBC eyes selling retail bank business in France: sources

Ecobank wins Bank of the Year and Best Bank in prestigious London awards ceremonies

Santander's Openbank adds sustainable funds to its Roboadvisor solutions range

TSB to adopt Iress' Lender Connect technology

Fears on overdraft fees as HSBC hikes rate to 40%

Pensions

Standard Life locks drawdown price for retirees

Are You Complying With the PASA DB Transfer Guidance?

46% of FTSE 350 DB pensions schemes now in a surplus as total deficits fall by £16bn

Talbot and Muir acquires pension business from financial advice firm

Just Group migrates personal pension platform to Embark

Lloyds to Cut Chief Executive Horta-Osorio’s Pension Award

Brexit

Aftermath of Brexit is the financial services largest challenge for 2020

New staffing rules make Brexit-related Irish-hubs a magnet for jobs

Brexit investing: what wealth managers have learned

Jersey and Guernsey Islanders fear Channel Islands are unprepared for Brexit

Corbyn’s election rejection means MORE strife for the pound and UK economy

Brexit could cause a broad ‘investor strike,’ UBS chairman warns

Planet SOS

Germany, Global Parametrics, Hannover Re Launch Climate Impact Fund

European Commission: European Green Deal

Taking the lead on climate change

Climate risks are not priced into market valuations, and corporate climate disclosures are insufficient: GSIA poll

Euro Investors Want More ESG Funds

BMO GAM unveils three sustainable strategies