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Asset Management Europe: Monthly Macro Insights – September 2021

What’s more, monetary policies are being tightened in many EM

Basel III and global cooperation: where do we go from here?

Protecting the health and financial stability of our countries necessarily requires us to think of these values as global public goods, and therefore to think past our own borders.

Empowering Clients During Adversity

As investors move into new asset classes, many are also increasingly building up exposures to promising CEE (Central and Eastern European) markets including the Czech Republic

What does gen Z want and expect from banking and wealth management?

Estimates of what they and other generations close to them will inherit over the next years range from $15 trillion to $68 trillion, and some are expected to also become wealth creators at a younger age.

House prices at new high but pace of growth slows

House prices hit a record high in August, but the annual pace of growth in property values slowed, according to the UK's largest mortgage lender.

Luxembourg: driving the EU’s historic recovery programme

Linklaters Luxembourg was appointed by Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as arranger, to implement a programme of debt issuance for the EU and Euratom.

Better competitiveness in finance won't mean deregulation, says UK minister

Glen said it was his sense that people were looking for "modest, incremental changes, rather than radical change".

Growing pains for the global economic recovery

The spread of the Delta variant remains a challenge

Industry unveils new international strategy for UK to regain financial centre leadership in five years

Delivering the strategy will create more high-skilled, high-value UK jobs, and attract more foreign direct investment into businesses in all sectors across the UK.

Morning Coffee: Boomer bankers vs. millennials in return to the office. MD gives up investment banking for puzzle YouTubing

The actual kids – referred to as “Generation Z” – are apparently much more keen to get back. According to Ms Frankiewicz, “they’re fresh out of college, they’re looking to make their friends, it’s where the

Advisers fear reputational damage from greenwashing

Around 69 per cent of advisers surveyed by Boring Money said they were worried about the reputational risk of recommending products whose sustainability credentials are later called into questio

Have European banks left tax havens? Evidence from country-by-country data

We consider three minimum tax rates—15%, 21%, and 25%—and in each case compute the extra tax owed per bank and tabulate results by headquarter country.

EY under scrutiny after second-largest bankruptcy in Swiss history

This makes it the second-largest ever bankruptcy in Switzerland, after Swissair in 2001. At least CHF2.5 billion of its assets are still missing, according to creditors.

Diary of a Fund Manager - Venn Diagrams

Two issues continue to dominate short-term sentiment: COVID and inflation.

Huge junior banker bonuses haven't stopped private equity exits

Whereas previously London bonuses were 80% of salaries, and salaries for first year analysts were around £50k at top banks

ECB weighs slower bond purchases as economy rebounds

Monetary policy hawks fear rising inflation while doves seek to maintain stimulus

Green Bond Sales Head for Record as More Nations Set for Debuts

That’s in addition to established issuer Germany, which will sell a new 10-year green bond via auction next week.

The risks of token regulation

Speech by Charles Randell, Chair of the FCA and PSR, to the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.

Looking to Asia for Help

The good news is that Asia may start to bring some positive surprises that may make up for the malaise in the US.

Convid-19 by Tim Price

Psychological operations have always been a part of war.

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