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FCA: Sector Views

Although the Sector Views are not a consultation, we are interested in the views of our stakeholders on our findings.

ESMA report finds investment product performance highly impacted by charges

Market transparency is particularly limited for retail AIFs and SRPs for which practically no up-to date data on costs and performance are available.

FCA: Five asset management trends threatening financial stability

Annual review of the sector

Peter Thiel Wants To Give Wall Street a Fright

European mobile banking unicorns, like the Thiel-backed N26, are heading stateside. Regulation and competition from U.S. banks may well hobble them.

Is Brexit Really Going To Happen?

The bottom line was that no representative or party felt safe to reject the Brexiters directly.

The five financial risks threatening retirees in 2019 By Matt Taylor, Senior Wealth Planner at Sanlam UK

The UK has enjoyed some of the lowest inflation conditions in nearly 30 years.

Tony Wickenden: IHT change in the offing

It then sets out recommendations on administrative issues, which featured frequently in those responses, and will remain important regardless of any technical or design changes made in the future.

Standard Chartered: More work to do

The culture is changed and numbers are solid, but return on equity isn’t going to budge without progress on costs.

London raked £1.8bn in tech funding last year, almost double its next closest rival

Fintech remained London’s most attractive sector of the tech industry, scoring more than £1bn in funding and playing host to over 90 per cent of the UK’s financial startups that raised throughout the year.

Sustainability report predicts rise in investor lobbying

In an analysis, Oppenheimer Funds’ Aniket Shah and sustainable investment expert Gordon Clark, predicted that growing interest in corporate stewardship will expand to influencing public policy in the coming years.

The impact investing trend is here to stay

Impact investment, whereby investments are made into companies to generate positive social and environmental change, is a rapidly growing market.

Fintech Revolution Still Not Here a Year Into ‘Open Banking’

Banks and credit card firms defend payment business with deals

Is It Time to Revisit the Mature, Manual Processing of Corporate Actions? by Matt Gunnel, Dion Global

Customer service can be improved by better communications and management of the election / instruction processes, and potentially extended into the provision of proxy voting.

Two minutes with Graham Wainer

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Opinion: What's to become of Deutsche Bank?

Its market value has slumped to just €14 billion, which makes comparing Germany's biggest lender to its former US rivals almost a joke.

HSBC sparks controversy with ad campaign

One social media user questioned whether the HSBC risked "alienating a large number of potential customers" with the campaign.

Wellcome Trust pays more than £3.17m to its highest earner

The Wellcome Trust did not name the person who was paid £3.17m for the year covered by the accounts.

SCOTTISH INVESTMENT TRUST: Why we're in no rush to spend our £80m

Cash is not the only conservative step that McKinnon has taken.

Why Jaguar Land Rover is losing money and how it plans to return to profit

Fast forward to 2018 and the company lost 354 million pounds in the first six month of its current financial year (which runs until March 31, 2019).

Green Investment Group under fire over 'low' level of UK focus

The GIG has leveraged around £169m of co-investment in UK projects, yet has proportionally secured around twice as much co-investment in Europe - £560m - according to the letter.

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