09/14/2021
Fiat money, fifty and frail – Long-Term Asset Return Study 2021
Latest flagship annual report from Deutsche Bank Research questions whether fiat money will survive our investment horizons
Comment, Analysis & Research
09/14/2021
James Barbour CA on the seven essential elements for corporate reform
From the outset of the calls for audit reform, ICAS has advocated a holistic review of corporate governance, reporting and audit (“the corporate ecosystem”).
09/14/2021
New UK guidance for fundraisers dealing with people in vulnerable circumstances
The rules that govern how to deal with people in vulnerable circumstances while fundraising are set out in the Charities Act 2016 and the Code of Fundraising Practice.
09/14/2021
Switzerland trails France, Spain and Chile for percentage of female fund managers
The country has not seen an increase in the number of women managing assets since last year.
09/14/2021
5 Reasons Your Firm Needs a Comprehensive Compliance Strategy
For 21st-century financial services firms, one directive is clear: firms must improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their compliance programmes to out-perform the competition and succeed over the long term.
09/13/2021
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?
09/13/2021
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.
09/13/2021
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.
09/13/2021
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.
09/13/2021
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.
09/13/2021
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.
09/12/2021
The UK’s LIBOR safe harbour legislation: a missed opportunity?
The FSA 2021 makes amendments to the UK Benchmarks Regulation
09/12/2021
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,
09/12/2021
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.
09/12/2021
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.
09/12/2021
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.
09/10/2021
Equity investors eye up Europe
Long-standing aversion driven by ‘myth’ that they act as a detractor to multi-asset portfolios
09/10/2021
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.
09/10/2021
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
09/10/2021
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.