06/04/2019
PIMFA responds to RDR and FAMR Call for input
The document also highlights the benefits and better financial outcomes consumers receive when accessing financial advice
Comment, Analysis & Research
06/04/2019
TMF Group: Largest Economies Often Most Complex for Business
The findings confirm that the business landscape has become more challenging
06/04/2019
Getting Fit for Future: Prioritising Cybersecurity, Investment and Succession
For family offices, cybersecurity ranked highly among key risks for the year, with a quarter (29%) highlighting the importance of protecting against cyber-attacks.
06/04/2019
Artificial Intelligence: a disruptive force in the UK financial services sector
AI is seen as a tech disruptor frontrunner but firms are hindered by a skills shortage
06/03/2019
For he’s a jolly good Fellow… of the Personal Finance Society
Most of you will know just how much work and commitment this takes but, to those who might be thinking about entering this profession, I think you’ll find Paul’s attitude inspiring and his enthusiasm infectious.
05/31/2019
LEBC welcome student loans adjustment
While reducing fees to a maximum of £7,500 would also reduce student debt overall
05/30/2019
Ecosystem and new entrants: shifts in financial services
The greater the number of users, the more valuable the technology is to all of them. Consortia allow companies to take advantage of blockchain network effects immediately
05/29/2019
Investors turn to UK assets
The desirability of UK assets to overseas investors is relevant to the performance of the currency because the UK runs a current account deficit.
05/29/2019
Capturing Synergies in an Evolving Family Office Landscape by Geoff Cook
These are the ‘internal drivers’ that are proactively shaping family office behaviours.
05/27/2019
Little by little, we went insane by Tim Price
Coppola’s unique vision came at a price.
05/27/2019
London still offers attractive buying opportunities for Middle East investors
Middle East Ultra High Net Worth investors (UHNWIs) poured $3.3bn into London's real estate market in 2018, according to a Knight Frank report
05/27/2019
A third of the people in this European country are millionaires
Just as noteworthy as such a staggering concentration of wealth — if not more — is the fact that Monaco has virtually no poverty.
05/24/2019
Turkeys Twizzled by Tim Price
This is not to denigrate the entrepreneurial spirit. Society needs risk-takers.
05/24/2019
Rich Brits plough cash into crypto over Corbyn and Brexit fears
Millionaires across the UK are looking to invest their wealth into cryptocurrencies over concerns that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is heading for Number 10
05/24/2019
Scanning the Horizon by Sam Woods, PRA
This part of our work has its origins in two simple observations about financial history.
05/22/2019
Raphael: Boris Johnson gets his chance to fail, too
She previously promised to leave before the next election and then after her Brexit deal won approval from parliament; now she will step down regardless.
05/21/2019
British ministers say the City of London will survive in a post-Brexit world
London, which is home to the world’s highest number of banks and largest commercial insurance market, has potentially a lot to lose from the end of unfettered access to the EU’s post-Brexit market, its biggest trading partner.
05/21/2019
EY’s Nikhil Lele on why banks, wealth managers and tech companies will soon offer financial subscriptions
This rental or subscription economy will also appear in financial services, changing products into services.
05/21/2019
Nearly half of all UK SMEs believe technology is more important to their business than people
The research compares insights into work-life balance, growth ambitions, innovation, dynamism and diversity.
05/21/2019
Some euro zone banks need extra buffers amid slowdown: ECB
“The continued build-up of buffers could therefore be justified, especially in those countries where the long upturn may have led to an underestimation of credit risk or where private indebtedness is particularly high or rising.”