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Regulations and market growth drive wealth managers towards outsourcing bonanza

Wealth Managers are embracing a breadth and depth of third party services not seen in other markets.

Confidence hits a new high with more money in pocket

The decrease was driven by further falls in spending on gas and electricity, food and drink and fuel.

Do the Brics need their own development bank?

For the leaders of the Brics countries, the announcement in July of their agreement to establish a "New Development Bank" and a "Contingent Reserve Arrangement" was a public-relations coup.

The dark and bright side of global banking

This EBRD working paper by Ralph De Haas reviews the literature on the benefits and risks of global banking, with a focus on emerging Europe.

Real Assets, Real Potential - Global Perspective from Standard Life Investments

Standard Life Investments highlights that investor interest in a range of real assets has been building for some time and that long-term investors are increasingly considering real assets to assist with enhancing portfolio diversification and liability ma

Global innovation award for Jersey's Security Register

The Jersey Companies Registry, which is part of the Jersey Financial Services Commission (the “Commission”), has won a leading international award for its recently introduced Security Interests Register.

SNL Financial Ranks the Top 20 European Banks by Market Capitalization

HSBC leads SNL Financial's biannual ranking of the 20 largest European banks by market capitalization, while BBVA and other Spanish lenders scoot upwards.

France's June Current-Account Deficit Widens on BNP Paribas Fine

BNP Paribas Paid $8.97 Billion for Violating Sanctions Against Iran, Cuba and Sudan

Firms in India view the USA, Singapore and the UK as the most strategically important countries for new sources of investment over the next five years

BNY Mellon investor relations survey reveals an increased focus on international markets as a source of raising capital

Investors Turning to Cash as Geopolitics and Interest Rate Rise Fears Bite

Europe Bears Brunt of Falling Sentiment but Emerging Markets Thrive

London Banks Award New Hires 20% More Pay in July

Firms in London’s main financial district, known as the City, awarded new hires with an average pay increase of 20 percent in July as companies added employees in product control and information technology

RBC tops table of infrastructure deal advisers

The ranking, the first prepared by Mergermarket product InfraDeals, aims to capture deals in the energy, transport and social-infrastructure sectors whose steady inflation-linked revenues are favoured by institutional buyers.

UK equities favoured by wealth managers

If enough investors believe in this thesis, it will undoubtedly become self-fulfilling as the herd stampedes for the exit

Pensions in flux boost asset managers

According to FTfm’s 11th annual survey of asset managers, the UK pension fund assets of the top 20 investment houses active in the market rose 8.5 per cent to £1.2tn in 2013

How investment funds survived the First World War

There were 90 investment trusts at the outbreak of war; some managed to increase dividends - and you can still invest today

Sovereign wealth funds embark on global spending spree

The new figure represents a vote of confidence by the SWFs in the global economic recovery, which has gradually gathered momentum since the crisis.

ETFGIs analysis finds ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered a record US$160.5 billion in net new assets through the end of July 2014

Assets declined slightly from their record high of US2.64 Tn in June to US2.62 Tn at the end of July.

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