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Ecosystem and new entrants: shifts in financial services

The greater the number of users, the more valuable the technology is to all of them. Consortia allow companies to take advantage of blockchain network effects immediately

Investors turn to UK assets

The desirability of UK assets to overseas investors is relevant to the performance of the currency because the UK runs a current account deficit.

Capturing Synergies in an Evolving Family Office Landscape by Geoff Cook

These are the ‘internal drivers’ that are proactively shaping family office behaviours.

Little by little, we went insane by Tim Price

Coppola’s unique vision came at a price.

London still offers attractive buying opportunities for Middle East investors

Middle East Ultra High Net Worth investors (UHNWIs) poured $3.3bn into London's real estate market in 2018, according to a Knight Frank report

A third of the people in this European country are millionaires

Just as noteworthy as such a staggering concentration of wealth — if not more — is the fact that Monaco has virtually no poverty.

Turkeys Twizzled by Tim Price

This is not to denigrate the entrepreneurial spirit. Society needs risk-takers.

Rich Brits plough cash into crypto over Corbyn and Brexit fears

Millionaires across the UK are looking to invest their wealth into cryptocurrencies over concerns that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is heading for Number 10

Scanning the Horizon by Sam Woods, PRA

This part of our work has its origins in two simple observations about financial history.

Raphael: Boris Johnson gets his chance to fail, too

She previously promised to leave before the next election and then after her Brexit deal won approval from parliament; now she will step down regardless.

British ministers say the City of London will survive in a post-Brexit world

London, which is home to the world’s highest number of banks and largest commercial insurance market, has potentially a lot to lose from the end of unfettered access to the EU’s post-Brexit market, its biggest trading partner.

EY’s Nikhil Lele on why banks, wealth managers and tech companies will soon offer financial subscriptions

This rental or subscription economy will also appear in financial services, changing products into services.

Nearly half of all UK SMEs believe technology is more important to their business than people

The research compares insights into work-life balance, growth ambitions, innovation, dynamism and diversity.

Some euro zone banks need extra buffers amid slowdown: ECB

“The continued build-up of buffers could therefore be justified, especially in those countries where the long upturn may have led to an underestimation of credit risk or where private indebtedness is particularly high or rising.”

The fast routes to a London banking job before August 2019

If you want a new front office banking job in London before the summer lull you will therefore need to play your hand carefully. 2019 is not a year of plenty.

New Global Impact Investing study from KBI Global Investors

Significant appetite for Further Education and Training in Impact

Phoenix a finalist for Investment Marketing and Innovation Awards 2019

Designed to recognize and reward creativity and innovation within the sector

Move over Millennials, there is a new gang in town and they mean business

The post-Millennial generation known as Generation Z will make up nearly a third (32%) of the global population of 7.7bn in 2019

Model use and misuse by David Rule

A model applies theories, techniques and assumptions to process input data into quantitative estimates for a particular purpose.

The Sunday Times Rich List 2019: age of uncertainty rattles the super-rich

After a year of turmoil on the stock market and high street, the super‑rich have a new fear — Corbygeddon. Robert Watts reports on how they are planning to protect themselves from a hard-left government

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