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Research carried out by Duff & Phelps last year reinforced this perception, concluding that asset managers, brokers and banks typically spend 4% of their revenues on compliance. It also predicted that this is set to increase to 10% by 2022, such is the impact of regulatory reform.

The spectre of regulatory compliance extends into everything a financial services company does, and that of course includes its advertising and marketing. The processes and technologies used to deliver effective marketing naturally all need to sit inside an organisation’s compliance framework, but that comes at a price: speed and agility.

As financial businesses start to act and behave with more agility – their engagement of consumer, intermediary or even institutional audiences should follow suit.

By bringing more of their marketing options in-house, they can meet these challenges. Being closer to compliance, in every sense of the word, means getting it right first time more often. That means creative boundaries can be pushed harder because the creatives are starting with a greater perspective and a deeper knowledge.

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With first-half issuance of EUR 14.8bn falling just short of full-year issuance in 2016 and 2017, Scope Rating expects the placement of hybrid-bond issuance this year will likely surpass EUR 20bn.

Low interest rates and still buoyant equity markets remain powerful incentives for capital-intensive companies to issue the subordinated bonds, which blend the characteristics of debt and equity instruments, to help finance acquisitions and refinance maturing issues.

“Deal making is very much still underway in Europe, with corporate finance chiefs the most enthusiastic that they’ve been since 2015 about using hybrid bonds to fund expansion without jeopardising their credit ratings,” says Scope analyst Azza Chammem.

One caveat is the importance of bullish equity-market sentiment persisting for hybrid bonds to retain their appeal as a funding instrument while interest rates remain low, she says.

Several debutants from the real estate sector such as Swedish Klovern, Luxemburg based CPI Property Group or French-Dutch Unibail-Rodamco came to market with hybrid issues which have long been a preferred source of funding for power utilities and telecoms firms.

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Revealed: The MOST annoying office buzzwords of 2018

While there is no ‘I’ in ‘team’, there are three in ‘irritating’ which is how one in three Brits (32%) would describe hearing that cliché at work.

Buzzwords and jargon seem to be unavoidable in the modern workplace, no matter how annoying people might find them.

Business telecommunications provider, 4Com, has looked into the phenomenon, surveying office workers across the UK to discover the nation’s most irritating office jargon.

The top 15 most annoying buzzwords and phrases are:

There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’ (32%)
Let’s touch base (24%)
Thinking outside the box (21.3%)
110 percent (15%)
I’ll just ping that over (14%)
Let’s arrange a chemistry meeting (14%)
No brainer (13%)
Smashed it (13%)
Close of play (13%)
Game-changer (11%)
Having bandwidth to take on more (11%)
Win-win (11%)
Run the numbers (11%)
Play hardball (10%)
It’s on my radar (10%)

Despite one in three (31%) of those surveyed agreeing that office jargon is annoying, almost a quarter (23%) admitted that they used buzzwords daily, and one in fifty confessing to using them every hour!

Additionally, the survey looked into the jargon that UK workers use most often. The top 15 most common office buzzwords and phrases are:

ASAP (50%)
No brainer (42%)
Thinking outside the box (41%)
To be fair (38%)
At the end of the day (37%)
Win-win (35%)
Catch up (32%)
Give you a heads up (29%)
I’ve got a lot on my plate (27%)
Close of play (27%)

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