Investing
Alternative Investment Fund Manager’s Directive Q&A
By Andrew Rubio, CEO at Throgmorton UK Ltd What were the initial intentions of the AIFMd? After the...
28th September, 2012
Regulation
Technology
Project Oscar – Brands Look to Cash in on Mobile Payments
The financial services sector is increasingly looking to enable financial transactions via mobile ha...
26th September, 2012
Finance
Men warned to act now on annuities or face lower retirement incomes
By: Emma Morris Men looking to buy an annuity – a retirement income for life – are being urged...
26th September, 2012
Investing
Deloitte survey shows fund managers regard AIFMD as business threat
The challenges fund managers face complying with the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directiv...
20th September, 2012
Investing
UK Tax office confirms Gibraltar’s QROPS status
HMRC, the UK tax authority, has after three years of uncertainty, given the green light in writing t...
5th September, 2012
Finance
The future for the financial services industry will be a more regulated one
There is a storm brewing and a whirlwind of regulatory change in the financial services sector will...
23rd August, 2012
Investing
deVere Group champions HMRC’s warnings against pension-busting schemes
By David Matthews Nigel Green, chief executive of the world’s largest independent financial advisory...
6th August, 2012
Business
Is there something wrong with the way we think?
Once again it’s been a bad few days for the UK’s banking industry. The sector’s already battered rep...
25th July, 2012
Investing
Counterparty Exposure Risk
Counterparty risk is defined by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) as the risk that a count...
25th July, 2012
Banking
Basel III – Who has the stamina?
Ted Rees, partner at Crossbridge, looks at the challenges still facing banks surrounding Basel III....
17th July, 2012
Finance
RDR and offshore products – the long arm of the FSA
By Bruce Davidson, of Altus Ltd. Introduction There has been lots of flag-waving and righteous indig...
17th July, 2012
Banking
Banking Reform – no confidence in the ship’s charts, nor in the officers at the helm
While the HM Treasury White Paper on Banking Reform has softened the blow on the UK’s banks in some...
27th June, 2012