05/26/2015
The world is drowning in debt, warns Goldman Sachs
Ageing populations mean countries' debt piles risk growing out of control, warns European head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Comment, Analysis & Research
05/26/2015
Jersey’s credit rating confirmed
S&P has affirmed its “AA+/A-1 + long and short-term sovereign credit rating, with a stable outlook” for the States of Jersey.
05/26/2015
Coutts: UK deflation - the good kind
Once again UK inflation, as with most of the developed markets, has been surprisingly weak – unexpectedly dipping into negative territory.
05/26/2015
ACCA and IMA Find Global Economy Improving
The largest economic survey of professional accountants in the world
05/26/2015
Credit, Where Credit is Due by Tom Becket
The best risk-adjusted asset allocation call you could have made in the depths of the financial crisis of '08 was to go long corporate credit and simply hold it for the last 7 years.
05/26/2015
Businesses can now bank on diverse range of funding options
It was a seminal moment in the annals of East of England fundraising. Cambridge-based SyndicateRoom raised £1.2 million on its own crowdfunding site
05/25/2015
Bank of England confirms EU exit research after email misfire
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was re-elected on May 7, has pledged to reshape Britain's ties with the EU before holding an in-out membership referendum by the end of 2017.
05/25/2015
Malta ideally placed to attract the ultra wealthy
At a SIR event in Rome for Europe, Middle East and Africa affiliates, a presentation revealed that UNHW people move for various reasons, including the internationalisation of business holdings, educational institutions stimulating foreign demand, ease of
05/25/2015
Beware the Bond Bears
Wisdom after the event!
05/25/2015
Greece Submerges as Crisis Fallout Worse Than Emerging Markets
The Greek economy risks being more a submerging market than an emerging market.
05/25/2015
Comment: Banks seem incapable of learning lesson
Seven years on from the great global financial crisis and some of our leading banks seem as enmeshed as ever in market-rigging scandals
05/25/2015
Medieval tax exiles flocked to Hereford
Today’s tax exiles prefer exotic locations such as Monaco or the Cayman Islands, but 900 years ago the ultimate tax haven appears to have been Hereford
05/25/2015
CHARTS: Global quantitative easing is rotating growth rather than accelerating it
For all of the monetary policy easing that has been implemented in recent years it is merely rotating growth, rather than accelerating it, from a global perspective
05/25/2015
Retail investors at risk as big business enters P2P lending
In the past few years, retail investors have turned to peer-to-peer lending as a way to earn better interest rates than those on offer from high street banks.
05/24/2015
Contrasting views of MFSA at Finance Malta conference
Most of the speakers at the annual Finance Malta conference highlighted the innovative and proactive role of the MFSA in making Malta a “jurisdiction of choice”
05/22/2015
Retail investors are ‘unrealistic about growth – Schroders
The head of financial institutions and strategic accounts for fund manager Schroders claimed that although investors were still demanding income they were also being unrealistic about prospects for growth.
05/22/2015
Global growth in 2015 - it’s complicated by Marios Maratheftis, Standard Chartered
If the world economy is set to grow faster in 2015, then why the long faces? Well, there are several reasons.
05/22/2015
Moody's concludes reviews on 10 Polish banks' ratings
The affirmation of the bank's BCA at baa2 reflects the bank's improved capitalisation and asset quality
05/22/2015
New British banks seeing better returns and lending more - KPMG
Britain's new banks are achieving superior returns than larger rivals, picking up customers shunned by bigger lenders since the 2007-9 financial crisis, consultancy KPMG said on Friday.
05/22/2015
European Institutions Thirst for Alternatives, but the Hunger May Diminish Returns
Europe's pensions want what alternative asset managers can offer-but the high demands risk reducing the ability of some strategies to deliver