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Lansdowne Partners: Brexit would hit EU banks

UK hedge fund manager Lansdowne Partners has warned a vote by the UK to quit Europe would put the European banking system under pressure.

ESMA Issues Opinion On MiFID II Standards On Ancillary

In order to achieve this, ESMA’s RTS 20 had designed quantitative tests, a trading activity and a business activity test.

2 out of 3 people ‘sleepwalking’ into LTA-triggered tax charges

An alarming number of people are sleepwalking into tax charges for breaching the lifetime allowance on pensions, warns the Head of Advice at the UK division of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations.

What a carve-up by Tim Price

What do pensioners want more than anything else ? They want certainty.”

Britain's property market has started to signal that the crash is coming

However, it is worth noting that this is likely to be affected by the government's implementation in April of a new tax on people buying a second home.

Ranked: The 20 biggest European venture capital firms in 2016

With the help of venture capital tracking firm CB Insights, Business Insider has ranked the biggest European venture capital funds raised since 2010, by size.

Diversity crisis: just 10% of fund managers are women

Investment industry under pressure to eradicate ‘macho’ culture after Citywire reveals just 10% of world’s fund managers are women.

J.P. Morgan, Goldman, CS analysts switch to private equity as M&A dries up

The analysts and associates who lose their jobs as M&A fees dry up are unlikely to be the same as those who move to private equity.

Portugal is Europe's next looming economic disaster

Regardless of how much it is worth, a country's largest bank needing a recapitalisation is never going to be a good thing.

Bankers inwardly hate what they are doing, says City of London therapist

"At work they are thought of as some sort of superhero, but no one knows they are dying inside," she wrote.

Dan O'Brien: We didn't ask for change, but we're seeing it everywhere

By the middle of the next decade, fintech has the potential to transform how the financial system works - including the most mundane aspects of retail banking.

Curing death’ will create a vast pensions crisis

But, if a recent, if largely overlooked, report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch is to be believed, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

A libation for family feuds by Penny Lovell

“Wealth is not new. Neither is charity. But the idea of using private wealth imaginatively, constructively, and systematically to attack the fundamental problems of mankind is new.” John Gardner

FDI versus Custard Pie by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Oh gosh…I am sick of the "custard pie" fights between childish politicians who seem to be becoming increasingly eccentric in their claims and counter claims about our lives after the referendum.

Foreign Investors Council Focuses on Astana Int’l Financial Centre

President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan along with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development President Sir Suma Chakrabarti, who co-chair the council, and numerous CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies discussed the future of t

Battle Against Cancer Investment Trust: Charitable trust that combines making money with saving lives

But others are happy to comment, including Jason Hollands of broker Tilney Bestinvest, many of whose customers invested in it at launch.

The number of London properties owned by companies based in offshore tax havens is surging

Not only is the number of properties owned offshore on the rise, but some of the capital's most well-known landmarks are now owned by offshore firms.

A record year for the UK - EY

This 20% growth in projects achieved in a European market that grew 14% means the UK increased its market share from 19.9% to 20.9%

Miton’s Anthony Rayner: Is it a “Sell in May” year?

“Events last week reminded investors not to become too complacent, as markets sharply re-priced the risk of a rise in US interest rates this Summer. Perceptions of the likelihood of a rise in the June meeting, for example, have swung around wildly t

Banks look to maintain their positionin London by rationalising real estate

2015 saw a marked increase in banking and finance leasing activity in Central London according to CBRE, the world’s leading global real estate advisor.

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