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We need strong banks with good balance sheets

The authorities’ effective crisis management reflected their acute awareness that banks were highly indebted

Lessons from Norway

A look at the Norwegian Oil Fund, one of the world’s largest Sovereign Wealth Funds, might prove instructive for Israel.

Global wealth management: banks’ panacea or failing dream?

It’s not clear whether they’re based on differences in opinion about future growth in emerging markets

Wealth manager outlook: welcome to the 20mph recovery

We are probably judging economic growth by the wrong scale

Global Wealth Report: Equity boom spurs asset growth

Allianz unveiled the fourth edition of its “Global Wealth Report”, which puts the asset and debt situation of private households in more than 50 countries under the microscope.

Nicola Horlick: "Crowdfunding is a drug going straight into the lifeblood of the economy"

City Superwoman Nicola Horlick is a crowdfunding convert following the success of her recent project on Seedrs, raising £150,000

Chief Secretary announces Government action on tax avoidance by George Bull

Danny Alexander’s surprise announcement last week, and why it’s about time the Government acknowledged that once again, it’s got to the wrong place but for some of the right reasons.

It is the regulators who now pose the biggest threats to financial stability

Try as you might, it’s hard to feel any sympathy for Britain’s banks.

EMIR timeline push-backs: blessing or curse?

The European Securities and Markets Authority has done it again.

Trust Me With Your Data, I’m A Banker

Consumers exercise a worrying lack of caution when it comes to sharing their personal data, as 17.5% of Brits say they would flog their own data for £5000

Jersey’s finance industry contributes some 40% of total GVA

Jersey Finance has issued the following comment in response to the latest economic performance figures to be issued by the States of Jersey.

Keeping the markets guessing - HSBC Private Bank

Deferred, not discarded

What has been troubling emerging markets? - Schroders

Schroders’ Allan Conway, Head of Emerging Market Equities, takes a look at why emerging markets (GEMs) have underperformed developed markets over the last three years, whether the trend will change and what has been discounted in equity markets.

There are times when the French seem to do a far better impersonation of Eeyore than we do

Depressed, lugubrious, and always assuming the worst; normally that is a good reflection of the British domestic attitude to life.

Revenge of the Nerds

Equity markets are showing the most promising prospects

Five Years On: The New Regulators

The 2008 financial crisis sent shockwaves around the world, prompting the government to reconsider the way the financial industry is regulated.

Tax avoidance – but who are the real goodies and baddies? by George Bull

The old days were great – you were either a goodie or a baddie – and that was it. Simple. But in the new world of tax, we just can’t work out who’s who any more…

City Broker’s Ethical Investment Comments ‘Ill-Informed and Naive’

Comments made about the alleged poor performance of sustainable investment funds by a leading asset manager have been described as “ill-informed and naive” by the industry’s trade body.

Advisers ready to test international investing again

More than half of financial advisers are ready to invest overseas

Consumer Poll Punishes Scandal-Hit Bank Over PPI Mis-selling and Libor Fixing

We're obviously disappointed with the results of the Move Your Money survey," said a spokeswoman for Barclays

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