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Dear Tax Professional – How was it for you?

There was a big sigh of relief on Friday from tax professionals involved in completing tax returns for individuals, having worked long into the January evenings and weekends.

The growing trends in cybercrime and how to protect your firm by Sheila Pancholi, Partner, Baker Tilly

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.

Church Of England Can Never Have 'Pure' Investments, Ethics Report Concludes

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.

Is OMT Legal by 7IM

The European Central Bank (ECB) has seen its plan to buy Eurozone periphery government bonds questioned by Germany's highest courts.

Value, in four charts by Tim Price

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

Are we entering the third phase of the Great Financial Crisis?

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard answers your questions about the global economy amid tightening in the US and China, ECB inaction and emerging markets turmoil

Bank of Italy Gov. Visco Suggests National 'Bad Bank'

Bank of Italy Gov. Ignazio Visco on Saturday floated the idea of a national bad bank to help lenders shed troubled assets and boost new loans to Italian companies

Swedish fund to open research office in Pakistan

“Changing the perception of Pakistan in the eyes of international investors will be a gradual process. Pakistani corporate (entities) have shown one of the highest average returns on equity (ROE) across emerging and frontier markets in the last 10 y

Eurozone banks face £42bn 'capital black hole’

Government adviser Davide Serra says this year’s stress tests by European authorities are likely to find fresh problems in the eurozone banks.

Wealth X CEO: Why Money And Power Go Hand-In-Hand

Wealth, among other things, buys the ability to innovate without constraints or boundaries, writes Mykolas D. Rambus, CEO of Wealth X.

Global asset base predicted to pass $100 trillion barrier by 2020

Assets managed around the world will rise from $63.9 trillion today to $101.7 trillion in just six years, led by growing riches in emerging markets and the expansion of sovereign funds

Shoppers from China and Gulf flock to London

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.

Shake up retail branches with franchise model?

The franchise model can turn the top-down corporate model upside down, since franchisees may actually become aggressive critics of how their customers are approached, with little patience for ineffective internal procedures.

Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Testing times for Yellen

We suspect that new Fed chairman Janet Yellen would not want to significantly change policy at her first meeting in March.

market risk has shot up since year's start - Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management

REMAP portfolios seek diversification in infrastructure & currencies

EU officials must break top-down reform fixation

"Generals always fight the last war."

Junior I-Bankers Say New 'Work-Life Balance' a Myth

Following the tragic death of an intern in Bank of America’s London unit, banks have announced new guidelines that will prevent senior executives from working their junior employees literally to death.

Dougan Says Credit Suisse Challenged by Emerging Markets Rout

Credit Suisse Group AG has been affected by the slump in emerging markets this year as conditions worsened

Top hedge fund bets on Danish debt crisis

Denmark became Scandinavia's weakest economy after a housing bubble that burst in 2008

Deutsche Bank caps cash bonus at 300,000 euros

Deutsche, which told staff about bonuses on Wednesday, said last week total pay in its corporate banking & securities division was 5.3 billion euros for 2013, down 14.4 pct from 2012.

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