06/20/2014
The Bank consistently forecasts that inflation will be on target within two years; after all, if it did not believe that, it should change policy. But inflation was above target for four years and is now below it.
06/19/2014
Recent figures have revealed that nearly a quarter of a million families are expected to pay Inheritance Tax over the next five years.
06/19/2014
FSP was created in 2014 with a vision of bringing professionals from academia and industry together to promote research in quantitative finance using engineering tools, with a special focus on signal processing and optimisation techniques.
06/19/2014
A limited European Union review of compliance with accounting rules regarding business combinations in financial statements raised several red flags, the European Securities and Markets Authority revealed this week.
06/19/2014
"I bowl so slow that if I don’t like a ball I can run after it and bring it back” - JM Barrie
06/18/2014
The flagship event of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Industry took place last week in Vienna. It was striking to see how the dialogue is moving on from regulatory implementation to investment, jobs and growth.
06/18/2014
Private investor share of UK equities reverses 3 year decline, and exceeds combined total of pension funds and insurance companies
06/17/2014
The explosive growth of apps is causing significant challenges for the banking industry, according to Gartner, Inc.
06/17/2014
Research from the group shows that, of the seven companies that debuted on the UK stock market in the last twelve months, four are currently trading below their flotation price and only two have left investors sitting on significant gains.
06/17/2014
Multi-asset solutions have been widely expected to benefit since the introduction of the RDR
06/16/2014
That price is 37 percent below Spain's Banco Santander SA's (SAN.MC) proposal of 15.31 reais per share for the buyout made on April 29.
06/16/2014
Fracking - it seems that we are now getting used to the unpleasant nomenclature attached to fracturing rocks to extract various types of gas. However, in the UK we are about to enter the period of political fracking which will also result in the release o
06/16/2014
Half of the firms in the global asset management industry will be gone by 2030 as new technology, demographic shifts and changing social habits transform the industry
06/16/2014
Here we go with my all-time England 11 from watching the Three Lions over 20 years.
06/16/2014
Middle Eastern investors are expected to spendUS$180 billion in commercial real estate markets outside of their own region over the next decade, according to the latest research from global property advisor CBRE .
06/16/2014
The researchers evaluated monthly returns of 516 UK domestic equity mutual funds between 1998 and 2008
06/16/2014
Lack of transparency, inadequate compliance procedures, poor segregation of duties, inexperience and inappropriate valuation policies are the five most frequently cited red-flags in operational due diligence, according to a Deutsche Bank Global Prime Fina
06/16/2014
Using the rationale that “repeated wrongdoing attracts higher penalties” along with these penalty figures, the research firm came up with estimates of total liabilities
06/13/2014
Banking Banana Skins 2014 - PwC
Every two years, PwC sponsors the Banking Banana Skins survey conducted by the Centre of the Study of Financial Innovation.
06/12/2014
London’s Top Firms Pay 37% More in Bonuses, Survey Says
European regulators are preparing to outlaw bonuses