05/28/2012
The new SPDR ETFs, which were also listed in Germany last week, are: SPDR Barclays Capital Sterling Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Barclays Capital UK Gilt ETF, SPDR Barclays Capital 1-5 Year Gilt ETF and SPDR Barclays Capital 15+ Year Gilt ETF.
05/28/2012
ABN AMRO is one of the top players in trade financing for commodities and energy, and competes globally with France's BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), among other European players.
05/28/2012
The mooted disposal is the latest example of a European financial services group examining a sale of its asset management businesses. Lenders are looking for ways to improve their capital positions ahead of the introduction of stricter Basel III rules.
05/25/2012
UBS is continuing its buildup of its foreign exchange hedge fund sales team, this time with the addition of a Société Générale salesman.
05/25/2012
Bailey said the "myth" of free banking enjoyed by customers when not overdrawn made it hard to link costs to products and services received.
05/25/2012
Helvetia, Switzerland’s fourth-biggest insurer, focuses on middle-income groups and doesn’t sell life products known as wrappers to wealthy private banking clients.
05/25/2012
Wealth managers using the platform will be able to determine the size and timing of each trade, as well as having the flexibility to define its structure, economic terms and underlying investment.
05/25/2012
The company announced today that it will set up an additional access point to its global trading network in the Equinix ZH4 data centre in Zurich.
05/25/2012
The taxable money funds had total assets of $1.673 trillion at the end of April, down slightly from March, according to a Reuters analysis of data provided by iMoneyNet.
05/24/2012
According to the latest update, the fund is up 18% over the year to the end of April, compared to the MSCI World Index which was up 7% over the same period. The € 159m fund was launched in January 2008.
05/23/2012
The Sammons Associates Annual Heads of Research Survey assesses the performance of banks' heads of research, looking at management skills, knowledge of the market and the quality of analysis, and had responses from more than 600 chief investment offi
05/23/2012
Italy's two largest banks have put their stakes in the London Stock Exchange up for sale as the country’s lenders brace themselves for the fallout from the eurozone crisis.
05/23/2012
HSBC Holdings PLC announced Tuesday that it had launched six new offshore yuan currency trading crosses. These six crosses are the rates against the offshore yuan, known as CNH, for
05/22/2012
Axa’s fixed income analysts use a number of rules based and fundamental filters to define an investible universe of bonds.
05/22/2012
The post-2008 influx of institutional money into hedge funds has resulted in a marked increase in the global industry’s operational sophistication and transparency to investors, according to a new report by KPMG, an international network of audit, t
05/22/2012
Barclays plans to crystallise a loss of up to $1bn (£630m) by selling its 20pc stake in fund manager BlackRock in a move that will boost the high street lender’s capital buffers.
05/22/2012
In a year when many commodity investors have been disappointed with their returns, senior managers in the commodities division of Societe Generale are leaving the French bank to launch Belaco Capital, to help put this to right.
05/22/2012
This brings the total number of discretionary fund managers available on its platform to six.
05/22/2012
SGSS in Italy offers a complete range of securities services, including clearing, custody and trustee services, fund administration, liquidity management and transfer agent services.
05/21/2012
The London Stock Exchange is in the early stages of planning an assault on the continental European market, pitting it against rivals Euronext and Deutsche Borse on their own turf.