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Despite Market Uncertainty, Opportunities Exist - BNY Mellon's Wealth Management CIO

Key to Investing Success: Staying Abreast of Market Conditions While Focusing on Long-Term Goals

FSA chief in attack on 'cynical greed' of City traders

Lord Turner also says free current accounts are bad for competition in banking sector

Could Barclays' review spur break-up of bank?

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?

Don't Sling Singapore by Justin Urquhart Stewart

At last are we seeing signs of a strategic move from the London Stock Exchange?

Global banks are the financial services wing of the drug cartels

As HSBC executives apologise to the US Senate for laundering drugs money, the fact is that nothing changes

Diamond’s Exit Fells Last Pillar in U.K.’s Gekko Generation

American Robert Diamond once mocked “Little England” regulators for failing to match his global ambitions.

Super-rich ‘hiding’ at least $21 trillion

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.

SAFT ON WEALTH-Imagining a global crash every two years

It just might be time to rethink that global diversification strategy

LSE in merger talks with Singapore exchange

The London Stock Exchange Group is in talks with the owner of the Singapore exchange about a potential £7.2bn merger.

Rich to lose half their wealth by 2014

In spite of his doom and gloom about America and the world economy, when pressed Faber did recommend some China REITs.

The U.K. Is The Real Epicenter Of This Crisis

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.

Libor scandal: Barclays investors attack regulators for 'decapitating’ top team

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.

London banks lose old-school ways

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

Investor confidence has weakened further - BofA Merrill Lynch

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.

Uncertainty in Europe and indecision in the U.S. will dominate world economy, markets in third quarter - Natixis CEO

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).

Is five years of tax amnesties enough? by George Bull

Amnesties are a proven method for closing the compliance gap, collecting outstanding taxes and bringing tax payers into the tax net for the future.

Private banking's squeezed middle

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.

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