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Let US Flow by Joe Moynihan

For the biggest alternative markets globally – Western Europe and North America – the repercussions are significant.

Private equity fund raising in Guernsey

Everything is tried and tested.

Both sides of the same coin? Examining the rise of sponsor-to-sponsor deals

Sponsor-to-sponsor deals involve PE firms on both sides of a transaction – buy side and sell side.

London fails to make Economist’s top 10 world’s safest cities list

The world’s most populous city earned a score of 92 out of 100 overall, with Singapore and Osaka following close behind.

£32 million boost for British businesses through referral scheme

More British businesses up and down the country are getting the financing they need to grow and expand, new figures show today.

Four Headings and a Funeral: Moments in Life to Prepare for the Future by Coutts

Always hope for the best but plan for the worst.

Investment market update - what’s happening beneath the scaremongering headlines?

Nobody knows the answer but we are anticipating that, at some point, markets may become too negative and provide investors with a good opportunity to add risk.

Negative interest rates are pushing European banks to tipping point, Danish watchdog warns

Jesper Berg says banks will either need to change their business model or shrink if they want to make money

‘We can’t expect success in the future because we’ve had it in the past’ – Coutts’ Peter Flavel on the bank’s revival

The bank’s clients today are as likely to be millennials and vloggers as industrialists or dukes with rolling acres.

Modern money: how family constitutions can pave the way for harmonious family businesses

Family constitutions vary from family to family, and helpfully, covers topics like entitlements, remuneration, share ownership and succession.

The skies are darkening over Europe by Tim Price

The economic sky is not cloudless,” remarked Angela Merkel last week.

SEI embraces intelligent automation

This is possible because it can help businesses to better streamline workflows, reduce redundancies, and overcome the growing complexity of data management.

Forget the generation gap – the gulf between rich and poor tells the real story of our times

It is wealth, particularly inherited wealth, that is the crucial determinant of life chances

Je ne regret rien by Gary Dugan

The fact that the US needs the rest of the world to buy its debt to fund its largesse of overspending and nonsense tax cuts is of course forgotten.

The growing challenges for monetary policy by Mark Carney

Our Governor talks about the challenges posed by the international monetary and financial system for the conduct of monetary policy across the world.

Q2'19 Venture Pulse Report - Europe

An overview of key findings uncovered from the Q2'19 Venture Pulse Report in Europe.

UK aid to break down barriers for female entrepreneurs in Africa

International Development Secretary Alok Sharma announces significant increase in support to empower female entrepreneurs and businesswomen across Africa.

Fat cat bosses lap up £100,000 perks as private jet allowances, school fees and accountant’s bills are all covered

UK’s 100 largest public companies paid bosses over million in taxable ‘benefits’

Rest of Europe is doing just fine

Latest economic data offers slivers of hope, while Germany grapples recession worries

Guernsey has reason to be optimistic

Global optimism was a net 39%, 15% down on where the sentiment was in the summer of 2018, and the weakest optimism score since Q4 2016.

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