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FATCA: better news for Lenders

FATCA was introduced by the US legislators to counter tax evasion by US tax payers holding assets outside the US

Gold, What’s happened? - Rothschild Wealth Management

Gold is now dramatically underperforming other assets and it is one of the few with negative performance (in US dollar terms) over the past twelve months.

Global Markets Weekly

Key data and events this week (15 April 2013)

Death of the Dinosaurs by Toby Birch

For those expecting a blog about Raquel Welch I can only apologise.

Treasuring our Treasure

Learning to treasure our successful industries has never been a great trait in the United Kingdom.

Triple deleveraging and schizophrenic regulation by Eric Chaney, AXA Group Chief Economist

The 2013 Eurofi Seminar took place in Dublin on "Building financial regulation to foster stability and growth", in association with the Irish EU presidency.

We're living in interesting times -Mark Burgess, CIO, Threadneedle Investments

In the five years since the onset of the global financial crisis, markets, economies, and the authorities have taken many opportunities to surprise and confuse investors

NIC wake-up call for sleeping partner

HMRC has shocked investors by announcing that from 6 April, all sleeping and inactive limited partners will be required to pay NICs. But on closer inspection, we ask if HMRC has got it right, or is it a decision based on ‘shaky foundations’?

Gold digging a deeper hole - Coutts

While there is certainly room for a technical bounce, the risks still seem weighed toward the downside in the short term.

St Valentine’s Day Massacre by Tim Gregory, Head of Global Equities, Psigma Investment Management

If I’d told you a year ago that global stock markets could go materially higher

Baroness Thatcher: how she transformed a nation's finances

Margaret Thatcher oversaw a revolution in the way people invested in the stock market and property

George Soros: how to save the EU from the euro crisis - the speech in full

My objective in coming here today is to discuss the euro crisis

‘Rich list’ data leak shows information more valuable than gold

“Wherever valuable, sensitive information is stored, it should come as no surprise that others – for whatever their reasons - will try to obtain this information.

Boutiques stage fightback

“Investors around the world may not be in a position to access boutique managers as easily as the big firms. As a consequence of the crisis, many distributors prefer well-known names, because it is easier to pick up a strong brand recognised by inve

Time to scotch the myth around bankers' bonuses

I was pleased to hear the City grandee lawyer Anthony Salz, right, in his independent review of Barclays' corporate culture last week, echo a point that I've been making for some time about bankers' pay.

A Game Changer?

Surely it is a given - the demand for oil will continue to rise. As the emerging and developing nations seek to grow - and consume a greater proportion of world energy - then this has to be a one way street?

The World's Top 20 Green Banks in 2012

The Bloomberg Markets third annual ranking of the world's greenest banks evaluates the efforts of financial institutions to invest in clean energy and reduce their own waste and carbon footprints.

French bank reveals aims amid media criticism

The Public Investment Bank has a difficult task at hand: To revive the French industrial sector

VAT – the forty-year-old ‘fiscal theme park’ by Baker Tilly

Lord Justice Sedley famously observed that ‘Beyond the everyday world … lies the world of VAT; a kind of fiscal theme park in which factual and legal realities are suspended or inverted.’

Investors need to be aware of unintended consequences - Standard Life

Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.

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