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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

Look out the Investment Bankers are back! by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Good news - companies have been sitting on a lot of cash: bad news - they haven't been spending it.

Bank Austria plays down emerging market concerns

UniCredit Bank Austria said its business was largely unaffected by market turmoil in Turkey and Slovenia as investors fled from high-yield assets in anticipation of the U.S. Federal Reserve scaling back its stimulus package.

Five Years on From Lehman Brothers - Schroders

15th September 2013 marks the 5th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

A transatlantic view of the G20 meeting by George Bull

Is tax avoidance by multinational corporations a ‘soft’ issue or a ‘hard’ one?

Five years after Lehman’s collapse, lack of customer confidence is biggest challenge facing banking sector, says CISI survey

A lack of customer confidence is the biggest challenge facing the banking sector, according to a survey carried out by the CISI, five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Man Versus Machine by Standard Life Investment

In the latest edition of Global Horizons Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, examines how investors can use behavioural finance to improve their understanding of markets and enhance decision making.

How important is the human face of fund managers?

These days the pages of the trade press are awash with stories about individual fund managers.

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