04/04/2013
French bank reveals aims amid media criticism
The Public Investment Bank has a difficult task at hand: To revive the French industrial sector
Comment, Analysis & Research
04/04/2013
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.’
04/04/2013
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.
04/03/2013
Big pay ‘made Barclays bosses feel above rules’
In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news
04/03/2013
HBOS ex-bosses face calls for City bans
The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management
04/02/2013
Francis first real challenge: re-structuring the scandal ridden Vatican bank
Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
04/01/2013
Shakespeare the 'hard-headed businessman' uncovered
A new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food
04/01/2013
How not to run a currency – or potentially how to create a run on a currency?
If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.
04/01/2013
Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge
After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.
03/31/2013
Off target
POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees
03/31/2013
Schroders ‘set for the premier league’
Hollands says that the acquisition is first and foremost about private banking and wealth management, giving Schroders a “pretty significant market share” within the UK.
03/31/2013
Banks still being too risky, say executives
Just 43pc of executives said they were completely confident their banks were taking acceptable risks
03/28/2013
Sanlam’s Speirs looks to follow in footsteps of SJP and Towry
Speirs has ambitious growth targets for Sanlam and he views the model adopted by SJP and Towry, which combines restricted advice with in-house products, as his best means of achieving it.
03/27/2013
Cyprus – is the sun setting for companies seeking tax breaks?
As the problems in Cyprus continue to make the headlines on a daily basis, we ask whether the sun could soon be setting on its reputation as a tax-favoured holding company location for international groups.
03/27/2013
BNP Paribas Securities Services: Patrick Colle soundbites from his UK Press Conference
Patrick Colle kicked-off the event by providing a brief company update, focusing on key 2012 achievements.
03/27/2013
High return on equity as crucial to the dividend income investor as the growth investor by Barry Norris, Argonaut Capital Partners
Ryanair is a great example of the way in which a company with a superior business model can generate consistent compound earnings growth
03/26/2013
Wider powers could damage BoE, warns UBS head
I refused it flat… I thought this was too high a price to pay
03/25/2013
Economic reality confounds the gloomsters
A relentless diet of pessimism fails to reflect the prospect of better times ahead
03/25/2013
Cyprus's banks have been tamed – are Malta and Luxembourg next?
Bank of Cyprus will become a shadow of its former self
03/25/2013
‘Industrialisation Imperative’ for Global Financial Services - RESEARCH
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