02/13/2014
Banco Santander's substantial presence in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile have placed the Spanish group as the most exposed of European Union banks to fragile emerging markets
02/12/2014
Lloyds Banking Group has allegedly agreed to a deal with its largest investor, UK Financial Investments, to pay around £400m in 2013 bonuses to staff, as well as £2m in extra compensation to its chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio.
02/11/2014
Overall, 91% of IFAs are either 'very' or 'quite' favourable towards European equities, up from 63% 12 months ago. For the UK, 93% are favourable, up from 79%.
02/11/2014
At the start of this month, as EM concerns spilled over into global equities and risk assets, capital preservation became the primary driver of financial market moves as opposed to relative value – Or fear rather than greed.
02/11/2014
Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet. It covers a huge range of illegal activity including financial scams, computer hacking, virus attacks and stalking by e-mail.
02/11/2014
Ethical advisors to the Church of England have warned that the CofE's investment portfolio "will never be pure", and advised that some "ethical ambiguity" is necessary for the benefits that investment brings to the organisation.
02/10/2014
Fed and ECB policies aim to reassure financial market participants rather than keeping them guessing. In the “good old days”, before quantitative easing, forward guidance and zero real interest rates, investors, asset managers, traders and ban
02/10/2014
Wealth, among other things, buys the ability to innovate without constraints or boundaries, writes Mykolas D. Rambus, CEO of Wealth X.
02/10/2014
London's high-end retailers enjoyed a boom in spending by Chinese customers over the first weekend of February as tourists flocked to the capital for Chinese New Year, according to the latest figures from payments firm WorldPay.