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The ongoing ethics struggle of banks

The Swiss Bank Employees Association has told an uncomfortable truth: it was “generally known” that for many years some of their employers profited from customers’ “tax evasion.”

The Trillion-dollar Question: Who Owns Emerging Market Government Debt?

There are a trillion reasons to care about who owns emerging market debt. That's how much money global investors have poured into in these government bonds in recent years --$1 trillion.

JP Morgan UK wealth head’s five-year plan to grow business fourfold

We had always served that audience group, but we were less known in that space

Who is the reclusive billionaire creator of Bitcoin?

Strangely, nobody knows who created it

Ireland the European domicile of choice for global asset managers - survey

Nearly three quarters of 200 global asset managers surveyed recently say they would now choose Ireland as one of their top three European fund domiciles, if they were starting over.

Another fine mess

Hypo Alpe Adria the name suggests a small, exotic bank.

Nuclear Japan

The end of 'datsu genpatsu' - escape from nuclear

Sustained Global Economic Expansion Expected Despite China Concerns and Emerging Market Turmoil - Richard Hoey

Orderly Deceleration of Chinese Economic Growth Anticipated; U.S. GDP Growth at 3% in 2014, 2015 and 2016

Ireland eyes new big player to boost banking sector

It has also left the country with only three SME lenders of scale, state-owned Allied Irish Banks , Royal Bank of Scotland's Ulster Bank and Bank of Ireland , which counts the Irish state as a 14 percent shareholder.

UK banks asked: could you weather an Asia crash?

Prudential Regulation Authority conducts detailed stress tests on exposure of HSBC and Standard Chartered to a Chinese financial crisis

Risky assets to deliver most attractive returns, supported by plentiful bank liquidity - Rothschild Market Perspective

Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.

Close Brothers survey says Yorkshire firms are losing the personal touch

Yorkshire firms are turning to modern communications instead of face-to-face meetings with clients and suppliers, it is claimed

Privacy or Secrecy? by Gary Heynes, Baker Tilly

MEPs have recently approved new rules to introduce an EU register of all beneficial owners of companies and foundations, and also private trusts. But could this present a risk to individuals that are in the public eye?

Royal Bank of Scotland posts biggest loss in six years

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported its biggest annual loss since it was rescued by the UK government during the financial crisis in 2008.

The Top 10 Emerging Economies Of 2014

After a decade as City darlings first the BRICs, now the MINTs the shine has gone off the emerging markets recently.

An Indian with a British passport who works for a German bank

"An Indian with a British passport who works for a German bank"-- this is how Deutsche Bank's co-Chief Executive Officer Anshu Jain described himself.

Hope... Is My Middle Name!

"Spain has passed from ‘Danger to Hope’" - Mariano Rajoy

Best-kept secrets: How interim managers can help advisers

Interim management has been the province of medium-larger sized intermediaries, but the tide is turning, writes Roderic Rennison.

German, U.S. Central Bankers Disagree on Tools to Pop Bubbles

Germany’s central bank president and U.S. Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo found themselves on different sides of a policy debate this week over how best to prevent another major financial crisis.

Big four tipped to chase Asian assets

European Central Bank completes a program of stress tests of eurozone lenders

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