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March market report: How the world has changed in a month

Official infection rates in the US and Europe have now overtaken China and containment efforts through social distancing and quarantines are in effect in all major countries.

IT teams: In the eye of the storm - the importance of remaining calm

When it comes to reassuring clients, we must first be able to demonstrate we are able to work remotely

Is business-as-usual possible for advisers working from home?

One firm says it is inevitable that covid-19 will ‘substantially slow down our business’

Willis Owen reveals the best & worst sectors and funds in March 2020

March was a month to forget for most investors, with some of the worst falls seen for more than a decade.

Are family businesses better prepared to survive during economic turmoil?

The trend towards low spending is typically explained by the fact that the family is footing the bill of an expenditure.

Investment banking: a problem child for UBS and Credit Suisse

The unit is said to have earned around $ 120 million for the bank last year from trading speculative junk bonds, as Reuters wrote.

'Consumer confidence will reach record lows, with a drastic effect' - comment on UK consumer confidence figures from Close Brothers

In the coming months we expect consumer confidence to reach record lows which could have a drastic further negative effect on demand and spending.

Global Investment Committee Outlook

The near-infinite expansion of sovereign bond QE also is an incomparable shock to the system, almost like setting to maximum the electricity used to stimulate the brain of a comatose patient.

Banks should ‘hang heads in shame’ over little to no help with Covid-19

One member said: “We haven’t had enough profit in the last three years as we are just about ticking over in a job I love.”

Surviving coronavirus: FAQs for UK employers

The guidance from government is still sketchy so we have had to fill in some of the detail working from experience and first principles.

V, W or L: what shape will the recovery take?

Although a rapid V-shaped recovery is our central forecast, if Covid-19 lingers there is a risk of a “double-dip” recession.

The cavalry (finally) arrives

The pandemic is spreading rapidly in the US, which is now following the rest of the West into self-isolation. Beware of leverage and expect dividend cuts, warns our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth.

Perfect Storm for Markets as Economic Time Stops by Butterfield Group

Certain sectors of the economy are more directly exposed to the economic shutdown, but the breadth of this shutdown will impact every sector.

Ritz sale inflames Barclay twins row

The deal came on the day the hotel closed its doors for the first time ever since it first opened, after London went into lockdown as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.

Leadership through a crisis, from a CEO who’s been there.

2020 is an unprecedented situation but the principles of good leadership are constant.

Your company culture’s power to shrink the distance.

As time goes on, we expect to hear more and more of these kind of examples of company culture adapting and growing into the new paradigm of remote-working and restricted movement.

Four in 10 UK businesses abandon banking services applications over slow due diligence processes

It's also worrying that so many companies admit to minimal KYC onboarding processes, as well as offering zero training on important directives such as 5MLD.

BCS Global Markets offering free research until 1 July, 2020

BCS GM research products equip investors with timely and actionable information on market developments as well as with specific recommendations and an action plan.

German minister commits suicide after 'coronavirus crisis worries'

Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday.

The Art Market Adjusts: How the art world is quickly adopting the use of virtual viewing rooms

In the midst of the new social distancing norm, “digital viewing rooms” seem to have become the latest buzz phrase in the art world.

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