11/01/2012
London’s attempt to maintain its financial muscle while boycotting Europe’s move toward a banking union risks isolating the city from its major trading partners and undermining its status as the world’s top money center.
11/01/2012
There are not many leaders of a large public company who would openly say their largest investor might want to put their money somewhere else, but among them are the chief executives of Britain's taxpayer backed banks, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal
10/31/2012
HMRC has announced it will be moving data currently held on servers within local tax offices to ‘cloud’ storage.
10/31/2012
Taylor said that keeping both parts of a bank within a group structure would also enable the investment banking arm to rescue the high street division if it got into financial difficulties.
10/31/2012
Today many investors hold more faith in the dollar or the Swiss franc….. or if they are diehards perhaps, sterling or the Euro…. than they do gold.
10/30/2012
Investors should expect greater volatility in foreign exchange markets as the 'beggar thy neighbour' approach of quantitative easing across the developed world triggers economic, political and social consequences for developing economies.
10/30/2012
So why are so many western private banks and wealth managers failing in Asia?
10/29/2012
Has Europe turned a corner? European equities certainly have.
10/29/2012
Brits have their heads stuck firmly in the sand when it comes to the state of their finances, according to new research from Barclays.
10/28/2012
This week's third-quarter results will give an indication of some of the financial headaches lurking in the wings
10/28/2012
All good libertarians necessarily approve of democracy over oligarchy or dictatorship.
10/28/2012
If the news is confirmed in coming days, it marks the withdrawal from "holistic investment banking" of one of the more hallowed names in the world of banking.
10/28/2012
Financial Markets were mixed last week as investors continue to wait for the US presidential elections on 6th November.
10/28/2012
The overall impact of Quantitative Easing (QE) on pension funds has been exaggerated according to global professional services company Towers Watson.
10/28/2012
Our view on how Germany’s economic position within the Eurozone remains strong, albeit with leading indicators having turned recently.
10/25/2012
Regardless of the well- publicised challenges facing the Eurozone and the negative impact on perceived risk assets, the MSCI EM Emerging Europe 10/40 Net (TR) index has increased in value by 11.4 per cent per annum over the last three years.
10/25/2012
With policy makers and central banks striving to ease the pain for troubled eurozone economies, European fund investors may be shrugging off the risk of Euro implosion, according to Morningstar’s latest European fund flows data.
10/25/2012
Private equity firms and investment firms are expected to be the main buyers of loan books
10/25/2012
This is important for investors as the global economy painfully adjusts to new realities and follows a rocky path to normalisation.
10/25/2012
“The 99% blame the 1%, the 1% blame the 47%, the private sector blames the public sector, the public sector returns the sentiment.. the young blame the old, everyone blames the rich.. yet few question the ideas behind government or central banks.&rd