09/17/2014
Cass Business School strengthens ties between UAE and South African Bankers
This is the fourth time they have hosted the BANKSETA delegation, further strengthening the ties between UAE and South Africa's banking community.
09/17/2014
“Seven day-account switching will really come into its own when private banks start offering current accounts for all in 12-36 months’ time to promote early loyalty,” said Mike Davies
09/16/2014
Kleinwort Benson launches tailored DFM service for IFAs
“Our approach is to work very closely with a few dozen firms, which enables us to provide high quality service and support to those firms that genuinely want a strategic relationship with their DFM,” he explains.
09/16/2014
The research was conducted by the Leadership Factor, the UK’s leading customer survey specialist, and involved a sample of Nedbank Private Wealth’s high net worth private banking clients.
09/16/2014
Indefinite ban for former St James's Place senior partner
As a result, the Financial Conduct Authority has concluded that Carron lacks honesty and integrity, fined him £300,000 and banned him from performing any function related to regulated activities in financial services.
09/15/2014
Rothschild hired for women’s fashion retailer sale
Private equity group TowerBrook is pressing ahead with a sale of the fashion retailer
09/15/2014
Leigh Harrison: why Brazier and Weldon quit Threadneedle
Threadneedle’s head of equities Leigh Harrison has attributed recent high-profile exits to the managers’ desire to build their own businesses.
09/15/2014
Standard Life loans advisers cash to fund acquisitions
It said that the purpose of the funding was not to influence future business or asset flows to Standard Life products.
09/15/2014
Financial services failing to connect with younger generation, finds survey
59 per cent of millennials say products are not targeted at them
09/12/2014
Key investment calls: inside the minds of nine wealth managers
Currently all asset classes and geographies appear fairly or fully valued and there is broad consensus the European Central Bank will begin quantitative easing to fend off deflationary pressures.
09/12/2014
AFH Financial takes over Hindsight
AFH Financial Group has added £13m to totsal funds under management through the acquisition of the assets of Northampton-based Hindsight Financial Services
09/11/2014
Swiss bank UBS's chairman Axel Weber expects mergers among smaller banks in Europe, mainly in the retail sector, while larger lenders were less likely to join up due to regulatory concerns.
09/11/2014
Barclays may start cutting pay to punish senior bankers who bully their underlings.
09/11/2014
Seven Investment Management co-founder Justin Urquhart-Stewart has warned of a “viscous and declining” economic cycle emerging in an independent Scotland on pro-union campaign Vote No Borders.
09/11/2014
Scottish wealth manager launches personal OEICs for wealthy clients
He said the wealth manager has made the move in response to demand from high net worth clients for a cost-effective way to manage their wealth.
09/11/2014
The massive volatility caused by the so-called ‘taper tantrum’ has finally run its course and emerging market debt will be stronger because of it
09/11/2014
Martin Gilbert says currency union with UK is 'desirable and highly likely' and that refusal to share UK debt would be shrewd
09/11/2014
Wealth management firm Equilibrium has hailed a record year that saw it break the £4m turnover barrier.
09/10/2014
Swiss wealth manager takes stake in French property developer
Swiss wealth manager is taking a 30% stake in French property developer and investor Groupe Atland to help bolster growth.
09/10/2014
He was known for his hands-on leadership of the bank and turned the institution previously run by his father into the eurozone's largest by market capitalization through a series of acquisitions.