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As savings crisis looms, employers failing to tackle employee knowledge gap

A third (33%) of UK employees are saving less than £50 a month, which includes one in five (20%) who admit to not saving anything at all.

Standard Chartered is quietly emerging as one of the biggest banking recruiters of 2017

Harding spent the past four years at the Japanese bank as head of emerging markets macro sales, but left earlier this month for Standard Chartered.

FCA reveals findings from its first Financial Lives Survey

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the results of its Financial Lives Survey 2017.

Europe’s dirty secret - Resolving the legacy of non-performing loans

Work to address the NPL issue at a European level has increased over the last 12-18 months.

Coutts Investment themes; Nikkei, IMF and Spain

The IMF often tends to lag other economic analysis and there were no real surprises in its report.

Blockchain and payments: Lessons learned and future prospects

One of the most challenging aspects is to ensure that all the building blocks, including blockchain, can work together and with our legacy systems.

Rathbone's comments on ONS consumer price inflation

Those savers with their capital predominantly held in cash will have seen its value depleted as the rate of inflation moves upwards.

McKinsey highlights importance of LEIs - RESEARCH

This resulting easier counterparty identification will open the door to further automation and digitalization of financial and commercial transactions across the globe.

Carney to raise rates in November to 'maintain credibility' - Smith & Williamson

Inflation should begin to moderate in the first half of 2018, as the impact of sterling depreciation following the Brexit vote drops out of the numbers.

St. James’s Place – 'Stocks continue to rise, reaching new highs'

While developed market growth is reasonable but unexciting, more than 50% of the market return in 2017 has come from emerging markets

Hedge funds up 1.43 per cent in September, says Preqin

Activist funds made gains of +2.73 per cent in September

Speech by Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA, at the Investment Association Annual Dinner 2017

In 2016 those numbers were 53% for the US, 33% for European firms and 9% for Asian firms.

Here are the best cities to claim your pension - RESEARCH

How much do you have to save for retirement?

Profit with Principles? by Penny Lovell

More recently, though, there is an increasing confidence that counters the belief that you can’t make profit with principle.

Morning Coffee: Why this 55-year-old Goldman exec spins decks. The 20-somethings deciding who hires you

While it’s easy to mock a man in his 50s spinning some tunes at night spots predominantly attended by Millennials, you can’t say that Solomon hasn’t done his research.

Higher income households hit hardest by inflation over the last 20 years - RESEARCH

Wealthiest 10% of households have seen overall inflation of 64% since 1997, compared to 50.7% for typical households and 53.8% for lowest income families

UK to remain Europe's premier fintech hub post-Brexit

London remains an attractive hub for talent and a dense cluster of financial institutions.

You know the rules and so do I by Jim Wood-Smith, Hawksmoor

The striking of the match however is less important than the role of the accelerant.

Moneyfarm is changing the face of wealth management

Technology is an enabler, and through these firms, people are taking their financial affairs into their own hands.

RAK, Luxembourg tackle investment opportunities

Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, receives a plaque of appreciation from Mohamed Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Board of the Ras Al Khaimah Chamber

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