07/24/2012
Is it possible that Barclays' board has been misled by Anthony Salz's urbane manner and establishment background into thinking that his review of the bank's business practices will deliver an answer to them which is comforting and anodyne?
07/22/2012
At last are we seeing signs of a strategic move from the London Stock Exchange?
07/22/2012
As HSBC executives apologise to the US Senate for laundering drugs money, the fact is that nothing changes
07/22/2012
American Robert Diamond once mocked “Little England” regulators for failing to match his global ambitions.
07/22/2012
The Price of Offshore Revisited was written by James Henry, a former chief economist at the consultancy McKinsey and commissioned by the Tax Justice Network.
07/19/2012
It just might be time to rethink that global diversification strategy
07/19/2012
The London Stock Exchange Group is in talks with the owner of the Singapore exchange about a potential £7.2bn merger.
07/18/2012
In spite of his doom and gloom about America and the world economy, when pressed Faber did recommend some China REITs.
07/18/2012
Yes, the euro will fall in value when Greece and other peripheral countries eventually exit the euro. However this fall will mainly be against the US dollar.
07/18/2012
Institutional investors were responding to claims made by the Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England at the Treasury select committee that the sudden removal of Mr Diamond was in the best interest of shareholders.
07/17/2012
Attempts to manipulate Libor, an important interest rate (at which banks can borrow funds from other banks), originated on the trading floors of some of the biggest and oldest banks in London, like Barclays, and government officials on both sides of the A
07/17/2012
Investor confidence has weakened further, led by a sharp decline in expectations of corporate profit growth, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for July.
07/17/2012
Markets will be erratic in the third quarter as policy indecision in the U.S. and a deepening recession in Europe overshadow virtually every aspect of the world economy, said John Hailer of Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM).
07/17/2012
Amnesties are a proven method for closing the compliance gap, collecting outstanding taxes and bringing tax payers into the tax net for the future.
07/17/2012
Echoing their colleagues in investment banking, private bankers in Emerging Europe see the middle segment of their market being squeezed, with only the biggest and the boutiques surviving. That has some casting around for new strategies in the region.
07/16/2012
The question now must be: how they can be fixed?
07/16/2012
Avoiding Worldwide Recession by Addressing Fiscal Imbalances
07/15/2012
Vikram Pandit is the quiet man of Wall Street. Or at least he'd like to be. But as chief executive of Citigroup, once the world's biggest bank which fell from grace further and faster than any other major lender in 2008, he can't expect to
07/15/2012
It’s easy to be cynical about mobility in wealth management.
07/15/2012
The exciting tempo that was the growth of the world’s second largest developing economy has been showing some serious signs of faltering.