09/13/2021
Almost half of charities sell property and assets amid Covid cash crunch
Over half of the charities we surveyed reported a drop in income of over a third since the start of the pandemic.
Comment, Analysis & Research
09/13/2021
Morning Coffee: Credit Suisse decides some executives may be incompetent too. How to raise a child when you work in finance
The Financial Times suggests that he has already discovered various issues in Credit Suisse's most senior ranks.
09/13/2021
Review of the week: Breathing space
The children have returned to classes and the adults seem to be drifting back to the office. The pandemic still looms large though, affecting travel, spending and taxes.
09/12/2021
The UK’s LIBOR safe harbour legislation: a missed opportunity?
The FSA 2021 makes amendments to the UK Benchmarks Regulation
09/12/2021
Bank of England discussion paper on new forms of digital money
Innovations, such as Digital ID, could be required for a CBDC to operate at scale,
09/12/2021
The Russian banker, the royal fixers and a £500,000 riddle
Dmitry Leus believed funding Charles’s ‘vanity projects’ would buy him an audience with the future king.
09/12/2021
Basel III implementation in the European Union
Introductory remarks by Pablo Hernández de Cos, Chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and Governor of the Bank of Spain, Eurofi panel on Basel III implementation in the EU, Ljubljana, 10 September 2021.
09/12/2021
Central bank digital currency: the future starts today
Speech by Benoît Cœuré, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, at The Eurofi Financial Forum, Ljubljana, Friday 10 September 2021.
09/10/2021
Equity investors eye up Europe
Long-standing aversion driven by ‘myth’ that they act as a detractor to multi-asset portfolios
09/10/2021
Keeping ESG in the family
Family businesses have been identified by the United Nations as being ideally placed to introduce measures quickly and with relative ease, future-proofing their operations.
09/10/2021
Morningstar Brings Transparency to Model Portfolios with New Data, Research, and Ratings
New Morningstar research indicates approximately $315 billion of assets follow model portfolios as of June 30, 2021
09/10/2021
ECB beats Fed to the punch and begins tapering economic support
It is likely there was serious pressure from Northern members of the ECB given the high inflation prints in Europe.
09/10/2021
UK named world's third best regulatory base, ahead of US and EU
After Kazakhstan, South Korea was the next lowest, followed by Indonesia: all have a combination of relatively higher cost levels, and less competitive timeframes or ‘duration’
09/10/2021
ECB to slow asset purchases amid improved growth outlook
Central bank will moderate pandemic emergency purchase programme and probably end it next year.
09/10/2021
It’s harder to be fair when your family’s spread around the world – Johan van Zyl
From a South African perspective, there have also been substantial changes in the tax system over the last 20 years.
09/09/2021
Christian Sewing: Three theses for answering Europe’s banking and capital markets challenges
This transformation, driven by technology, will be just as fundamental in nature as the first industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.
09/09/2021
Which Funds Invest in Female-Led Companies?
We've screened the top and bottom funds in terms of the gender diversity of their holdings
09/09/2021
European Equity Research Has Changed — ‘And That’s a Good Thing’
The sell-side was disrupted first by MiFID II, then by Covid-19. Ability to adapt defines the firms at the top of II’s All-Europe Research Team and U.K. Small & Mid-cap Research Team.
09/09/2021
From My To Our: Building One Meaningful Community Together
As part of the ongoing development of our organisation, after months of hard work and seamless collaboration, in July we have launched our renewed, faster, easier to navigate and more user-friendly corporate portal that goes under the name of One Objectwa
09/09/2021
What is Greenwashing?
Greenwashing is also a problem for the planet and society if money is not flowing into activities that are necessary to solve environmental issues like climate change, and social issues, like rising inequalities, for example.