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Bankers go hunting for UK billionaires to back Spacs

Can rule revamps make the City a magnet for cash shells used to hoover up deals?

Millionaire property hotspots revealed as Scotland overtakes London

Its new ranking sees it placed behind Scotland, the East of England, the South East and the East Midlands.

Bigger, broader, faster, stronger? by Andrew Hauser

It’s actually reassuring to see in that crystal ball that central banks have a role at all.

Almost half of charities sell property and assets amid Covid cash crunch

Over half of the charities we surveyed reported a drop in income of over a third since the start of the pandemic.

Morning Coffee: Credit Suisse decides some executives may be incompetent too. How to raise a child when you work in finance

The Financial Times suggests that he has already discovered various issues in Credit Suisse's most senior ranks.

Review of the week: Breathing space

The children have returned to classes and the adults seem to be drifting back to the office. The pandemic still looms large though, affecting travel, spending and taxes.

The UK’s LIBOR safe harbour legislation: a missed opportunity?

The FSA 2021 makes amendments to the UK Benchmarks Regulation

Bank of England discussion paper on new forms of digital money

Innovations, such as Digital ID, could be required for a CBDC to operate at scale,

The Russian banker, the royal fixers and a £500,000 riddle

Dmitry Leus believed funding Charles’s ‘vanity projects’ would buy him an audience with the future king.

Basel III implementation in the European Union

Introductory remarks by Pablo Hernández de Cos, Chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and Governor of the Bank of Spain, Eurofi panel on Basel III implementation in the EU, Ljubljana, 10 September 2021.

Central bank digital currency: the future starts today

Speech by Benoît Cœuré, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, at The Eurofi Financial Forum, Ljubljana, Friday 10 September 2021.

Equity investors eye up Europe

Long-standing aversion driven by ‘myth’ that they act as a detractor to multi-asset portfolios

Keeping ESG in the family

Family businesses have been identified by the United Nations as being ideally placed to introduce measures quickly and with relative ease, future-proofing their operations.

Morningstar Brings Transparency to Model Portfolios with New Data, Research, and Ratings

New Morningstar research indicates approximately $315 billion of assets follow model portfolios as of June 30, 2021

ECB beats Fed to the punch and begins tapering economic support

It is likely there was serious pressure from Northern members of the ECB given the high inflation prints in Europe.

UK named world's third best regulatory base, ahead of US and EU

After Kazakhstan, South Korea was the next lowest, followed by Indonesia: all have a combination of relatively higher cost levels, and less competitive timeframes or ‘duration’

ECB to slow asset purchases amid improved growth outlook

Central bank will moderate pandemic emergency purchase programme and probably end it next year.

It’s harder to be fair when your family’s spread around the world – Johan van Zyl

From a South African perspective, there have also been substantial changes in the tax system over the last 20 years.

Christian Sewing: Three theses for answering Europe’s banking and capital markets challenges

This transformation, driven by technology, will be just as fundamental in nature as the first industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

Which Funds Invest in Female-Led Companies?

We've screened the top and bottom funds in terms of the gender diversity of their holdings

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