On The Lighter Side
In their Opinion
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Justin Urquhart StewartHow many mobile handsets must a human have?!
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Tim PriceAsk Vince Cable
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Geoff CookThe Budget 2013 – What happened? by Geoff Cook, CEO of Jersey Finance
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George BullIn the tax avoidance debate, actions speak louder than words
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Ruth LeaThe Autumn Statement: taking stock - Arbuthnot Banking Group
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Phil BanasRegulation Schregulation by Phil Banas
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Aliya AllenCommitment, Continuity and Consistency
Wealth, Asset Management & Private Banking
- Iveagh's Wyllie increases commercial property exposure
- Investec wealth arm grows profit to £50.7m in 'encouraging' year
- Aberdeen completes $179.9m acquisition of Artio
- FF&P Completes Successful Exit for Investors
- RBS bankers receive £2.7m in shares as bonus
- EU bonus cap could double bankers' salaries, Wheatley warns
- Dart Capital eyes adviser acquisition opportunities
- Fund managers fear for EU bonus cap
- City Bankers Plan to Dodge New EU Crackdown on Bonuses
- Adam & Co sees profits double as costs reduce
Moves
- Towers Watson hires former Capita Hartshead director for Technology and Administration Solutions team
- Perpetual scraps CIO role
- Lloyds to land £450m through 15% SJP stake sale
- Former ABN Global Head of Private Wealth Management joins Dutch private bank
- Rothschild raids Lloyds for client adviser team
- ARC appoints experienced portfolio manager to head new AIFMD focused division
- BNP Paribas appoints Annalisa Winge Bicknell to focus on institutional clients
- Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo says names Stefano Del Punta as new CFO
- Charles Stanley appoints COO for Financial Services Division
- Ex-Barclays Wealth man to run six fund of funds for Fidelity
Offshore
- New chief executive to join Hawksford in 2014
- New relationship director for Lloyds TSB
- Barclays make senior appointment to trust business
- Financial services stats remain mixed
- Chief Minister welcomes letter from David Cameron
- Double success for Hawksford at Citywealth Magic Circle Awards
- Oxfam Says EU Tax Havens Hold $12 Trillion in Wealth
- Appleby Guernsey Advises the Carlyle Group on Investment in Addison Lee Group
- Flight to quality plays to Jersey’s strengths as a centre for wealth management
- RBC Wealth Management picks up two trophies at the Citywealth Magic Circle Awards
Legal, Regulation, Risk & Compliance
- J.P. Morgan International Bank fined for systems and controls failings in its wealth management business
- Linklaters City finance partner quits
- Bonelli names new joint managing partners in top-level overhaul
- Russia asks Interpol to monitor movements of British hedge fund boss Bill Browder
- Amid Spy Scandal, Russia Boots Baker & McKenzie Lawyer
- Wife wins battle for billion pound hedge fund
- Rosbank Chief Golubkov Placed Under House Arrest
- Pension trustee decision-making: Fishing for a solution?
- SJ Berwin name poised to vanish as King & Wood merger vote looms
- Majority of brokers believe FCA is merely a rebrand
Banking Technology
- Temenos DataSource: an Enterprise Data Management solution that reduces costs and risks
- REGIS-TR and NSD to intensify cooperation on the mutual exchange of information
- I-Teco and BSB sign a strategic partnership to market life insurance administration package in Russia
- Mellon Installs the First Touch Screen ATMs in Bulgaria
- DST’s Anova Wins 2013 FTF News Innovation Award for “Best Middle Office Solution”
- Compliance, market changes increase demand on buy side trading technology, report says
- Wealth manager opts for single ops platform
- Barclays Bank Voice Recognition Security a 'Catastrophic Move' as Super-Rich Trial System
- Ascentric sells platform technology development team
- Buy-Side Benefits of Data Governance Structures - RESEARCH
Alternative Investments
- PIMS: Ascentric set to soft-launch white-label platform
- Neuflize OBC outsources its dealing activities to BNP Paribas Securities Services
- London property market continues to power ahead, according to Land Registry data
- Fund supermarkets lose ground to wraps post
- London & Capital partners with Alexander Beard group plc to access portfolios on Skandia
- BlackRock to acquire MGPA
- UK government plans to boost British fund industry
- FCA ‘guilty’ of driving advisers to guided architecture
- BNY Mellon CSD signs T2S Framework Agreement
- Close Brothers to shut two funds on size concerns
Islamic Finance
- Britain's BLME eyes 15 pct asset growth, stronger Gulf ties - CEO
- London firm launches Islamic insurance platform
- UK aims to boost role in Islamic finance
- Simmons and Simmons advises on launch of Shariah-compliant funds platform
- Islamic Bank of Britain placing raises £10m
- CISI to offer qualifications in Wealth Management and Islamic Finance in Spain
- Government launches first Islamic Finance Task Force
- Malaysia-based Islamic Financial Services Board and ECB conducting study on Islamic finance
- Scotland could be go-to place for ethical banking and Islamic finance
- Al Salam exits key London property
Investment Banking
- Dresdner Bankers Celebrate Bonus Win Commerzbank Wants to Forget
- Credit Agricole First-Quarter Profit Jumps After Greek Exit
- Kepler Capital Markets acquires Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux
- BNP Paribas Profit Tumbles
- Credit Suisse Names Europe Investment Bank Heads
- RBS investment arm 'its key weakness’
- Commerzbank To Report Loss In Q1 On One-off Charges - Update
- Dutch Bank to Close Singapore Office
- RBI with consolidated profit of € 725 million again Austria's most profitable bank
- France's Natixis aims to wind down 'bad bank' by mid 2014-CEO
Investment View
- In the tax avoidance debate, actions speak louder than words
- The Tier 1 investor visa: a significant opportunity for wealth managers with the right expertise
- Aon Hewitt Analysis Shows Modest Improvement in Global Employee Engagement Levels
- Signia of the times
- European Asset Allocation survey
- “Too big to fail” cannot be “too big to tax”
- How many mobile handsets must a human have?!
- The UK Is About To Enter Its Second Straight Lost Decade
- 10 Countries Anxiously Watching Their Massive Gold Hoards Fall In Value
- A Gold Forecast that Will Shock the World
Financial Crisis
- Fitch Survey: Worst of Eurozone Crisis Not Over
- German bank rescue fund swings to profit
- Very little progress made in tackling Greece’s notorious tax evasion
- ‘Institutional investors escaped scrutiny over financial crisis’
- Cyprus: To Litigate or Not to Litigate?
- Europe Becomes The Sick Man of Investment Banking
- Is Slovenia The Next Stage Of The Euro Crisis?
- EU to extend loan repayments for Ireland, Portugal
- RBI might be interested in the Romanian assets of the Cypriot banks
- Financial crisis caused by too many bankers taking cocaine, says former drugs tsar
Central and Eastern Europe
- Russian banker has his eye on Europe
- Russian Central Bank to increase controls over bankers' bonuses and salaries
- SEB Private Banking clients in future will be advised by Ernst & Young
- Qatar turns to Orcel’s UBS for VTB bank deal
- BRE Bank Q1 net profit down 2 pct
- KBC reaches agreement with Société Générale Srbija and Telenor Serbia on the acquisition of KBC Banka
- Odds stacked against SocGen in Russian roulette
- MDM Bank Announces Appointment of New Management Board Members
- VTB Group announces audited IFRS results for 2012
- Russian VTB Bank Buys 10% Stake from Bulgarian Corpbank
Tax
- Credit Agricole seen challenging Emporiki tax verdict
- German state to buy more bank data in tax clampdown
- Italy Prime Minister slams 'hypocrisy' over tax fraud
- Nordic Countries Target Tax Evasion Ahead of EU Summit
- Tax Administration 2013: Comparative Information on OECD and Other Advanced and Emerging Economies
- Standard Life to pay platform rebate tax for investors
- Baker Tilly boosts forensic services team
- FATCA Wrong Tool To Fix Tax Issues
- Russia to Join FATCA Tax Watchdog
- OECD sees action on corporate tax avoidance
Retail Banking
- Earnings Statement KBC Group, 1Q2013
- Austria’s Erste Joins UniCredit in Snubbing Calls for Bad Bank
- RBS warns of more jobs cut and branch closures
- UniCredit net profit hits $588m
- Bank Austria Q1 net down 29 pct, loan writedowns rise
- Commerzbank loses $123M in Q1 due to restructuring
- Metro Bank losses pass £100m in just three years
- Lloyds Banking Group to sell Spanish retail banking operations
- Mellon Bulgaria helps enhance the customer experience at the Branch of the Future
- Handelsbanken Earnings Beat Views amid Narrowing Loan Losses
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