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Platform sector could grow to £1trn by 2025, says Lang Cat

The pandemic hasn’t changed the demographics of an ageing population, or the fact that people will always need financial planning.

The postpandemic future of work: Hybrid, remote, and what’s ahead

How will COVID-19’s lasting effects shape what’s ahead?

OTS continues to tweak CGT as it eyes extending property reporting deadline

Extending the ‘no gain no loss’ window to the end of the tax year two years after the separation is a positive step and should prevent CGT difficulties cropping up unexpectedly.

The big long by Brown Shipley

The pandemic has turbocharged a range of pre-existing trends that are changing the way of doing things across many economies.

Wealth Management M&A Frenzy Continues: What are the Technology Implications?

Agreement on operational platforms should be established as early as possible, not least because those choices directly determine synergies and integration costs and influence ultimate deal value.

UK Rich List 2021 revealed - who's made billions more during the pandemic?

Tens of thousands lost their jobs over the last year - but many of the UK's richest people have added billions to their fortunes.

Three questions on the outlook for banking

After unprecedented fiscal and monetary intervention mitigated an extreme economic fallout, there are clear signs of recovery, and in some parts of the world, growth is even exceeding previous forecasts.

Demand for offices in London halved amid lockdown

According to a new study by property advisory firm Bidwells, however, the pandemic has decimated the market over the last year.

5 reasons venture debt will go through the roof in the next 3 years

That hasn’t stopped venture debt from substantially growing its market share of the start-up ecosystem.

Beyond Brexit

The real impact of Brexit on Agency Brokers

Grant Thornton launches new Masters-level apprenticeships

Apprenticeship programmes such as Cranfield’s are vital for UK jobs, UK growth and UK productivity and are an important part of rebuilding the economy.”

Lombard Odier: EU ‘Next Gen’ spending takes advantage of crisis to set precedent

That improves states’ credit worthiness, and removes some of the euro currency’s risks.

Save money by investing in digitalisation

This means digitalisation must be high up on the C-level agenda and gain buy-in with leadership via a convincing business case.

Building financial market resilience: From diagnosis to prescription - speech by Jonathan Hall

In a globally connected world, it is only by working and sharing ideas together that we can achieve our common goals.

'Too much goes on after the event': advisers respond to FCA crackdown on CMCs

The FCA had received data from the FSCS on 1,319 claims

What do Brits need to do to move to the EU?

Residency requirements are more complicated now the UK has left the bloc

PIMFA welcomes FCA plans to stop Claims Management Companies from ‘Phoenixing’

PIMFA has called for the practice of phoenixing to be banned for some time, not least in our policy paper published late last year.

How Much Inflation Do You Want Before You Believe It?

Thinking has become anchored on low inflation, low interest rates and easy policy.

Market Update: The State of Luxury Real Estate in Rome

Massimiliano Bulzoni, managing director of Rome Exclusive, shares his insights into the impact of the pandemic, investment opportunities in the Italian capital, and what the rest of 2021 holds

UK ‘faces labour shortage’ as Covid and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers

Experts say recovery at risk amid sharp fall in EU workers and dwindling interest in UK jobs from abroad

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