12/04/2014
Standard Life to launch £250m property debt fund
Institutional investor Standard Life is to launch a £250m debt fund, in the latest sign that alternative lenders are stepping into the property market to replace banks.
12/04/2014
Competing themes in a competitive market
12/03/2014
For the First Time Since the Financial Crisis, Banks Globally Have Moved Beyond Recovery but Now Must Make a “Shift in Mind-Set” to Full Transparency Under Regulatory Reforms, BCG Report Says
12/03/2014
The global banking industry has moved beyond recovery and regained overall profit for the first time since the financial crisis, but the sector must now “make a shift in mind-set” to full transparency under regulatory reforms, according to a n
12/02/2014
PwC expects global AuM to grow from $64 trillion in 2014 to over $101 trillion in 2020
12/02/2014
Countries whose banks within the top 100, almost without exception, receive ‘fuzzy’ ratings include China, Italy, Japan and Russia,
12/02/2014
Businesses look for additional lines of credit and increase appetite for risk. 27% increase in interest for technology as a solution for managing trade credit risk.
12/02/2014
The US bank once again was named top stockbroker with 211 stock market listed clients.
12/02/2014
"The City won't just survive but prosper if the UK leaves the EU."
12/02/2014
British expats are becoming more interested in purchasing property in Italy, according to international real estate agency Knight Frank.
12/01/2014
European investors set up their portfolios to withstand a rise in market volatility in November, building up holdings of safe- haven cash while cutting back on riskier shares,
11/30/2014
Herds can be dangerous. Stand in the way of one and you can get trampled
11/30/2014
We believe the Federal Reserve’s large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called “quantitative easing”) should be reconsidered and discontinued.
11/28/2014
A currency-rigging scandal and an intensifying squeeze on their fees are driving fund managers to scrutinise how much they pay for the foreign exchange they need to buy overseas assets.
11/27/2014
The world is already turning on its axis even before the Fed pulls the trigger, as if the QE era were a memory
11/27/2014
When Dixon Boardman started 26 years ago ‘there were 600 hedge funds and only 100 had $100 million it was not even a cottage industry,’ he reflects on how the industry has mushroomed over the years.
11/27/2014
UK COMMERCIAL property was one of the best asset classes to invest in over the past year.
11/27/2014
Total hedge funds assets were virtually unchanged in October, decreasing 0.0002%, to USD3.020 trillion, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Asset Flows Monthly Summary Report.
11/26/2014
Russian oligarchs bought swathes of mansions in exclusive boroughs
11/26/2014
High street banks are improving but the aggressive sales culture will take years to reform