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Comment, Analysis & Research

GUEST ARTICLE - Unfriending Facebook - What's not to like? by Penny Lovell

Anyway, it’s certainly been a horrendous few weeks for the social media giant.

Finance Chief claims London will remain world's MAJOR financial centre post-Brexit

Comment, Analysis & Research

SWIFT, SEPA or Bitcoin? It pays to consider how you pay - Coutts

Wealth and Asset Management

Churchill was right: We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give by Penny Lovell

Comment, Analysis & Research

Women in finance: keeping up the pressure for progress

Wealth and Asset Management

Profile: how this boutique beat the big guns of wealth

UBS WM splits European business into two units

LGT Vestra to be headline sponsor for EY Entrepreneur Of The Year

GAM reports increase in AUM

Insider vs Outsider: Battle for private banks' new CEOs

Wealth boutique to launch multi-asset ETF portfolio

Executive Moves

COO ousted as shake-up continues at Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank IT overseer Hammonds departs

Cantor Fitzgerald Expands into Power, Energy & Infrastructure Investment Banking

Clifford Chance elects 26 new partners

GAM hires Kleinwort Hambros director for wealth team

Veteran Rathbones wealth trio follow ex-director to Close

Legal, Regulation & Compliance

European Parliament adopts 5MLD

EIOPA’s cooperation platforms prove beneficial in addressing cross-border issues

European Commission publishes draft regulation on CCP transitional period

Carey Olsen wins high yield deal of the year at IFLR Europe Awards

Barclays CEO Jes Staley faces fine over whistleblower incident

UBS Broaches Swiss Tax Taboo

FinTech

Barclays rolls back on robo-advice plans

Europe Invests in Fintech

QuantHouse rolls out global trade and book synchronisation feature

Bank of England Makes TransferWise The First Non-Bank To Become Member Of Faster Payments

Sensibill Expands in UK with London Office and Launches Receipt Management Solution to NatWest's Android Users

Openbank extends Temenos partnership with WealthSuite

Alternative Investments

The Brexit Countdown - Mark Ward, Head of Trading at Sanlam UK

Fund managers unveiled for 120m pot

Generali sells €540m Belgian unit to Athora

Collab Winners Are ‘Building a Long-Term Relationship’ with MetLife

ETF Investors Favour Emerging Markets in 2018

DunPort gets €283m to fund SMEs

Investment Banking

European Investment Bank pulls back on UK funding after Brexit

HSBC Malta launches pension plan for its employees

Lloyds Bank axes 49 branches and 305 staff just weeks after it recorded profits of over £5 BILLION

ECB asks Deutsche Bank to gauge investment banking exit costs

Goldman Sachs might not have built European HQ in London if it had known about Brexit, says Lloyd Blankfein

Deutsche Bank Taps the Brakes on Its Global Ambitions

Comment, Analysis & Research

Richard Buxton calls UK equities sell-off misguided

Five years of macro-prudential: Regulating the Square Mile for all 94,000 square miles

The century club

Barclays: “Equities Expected to Continue Outperforming Bonds Despite Current Volatility”

London’s Fight to Remain a Financial Hub After Brexit

Cayman still top center for offshore business deals

Tax

Andersen Global Expands Presence in Portugal

Call for UK pensions tax relief at flat rate of 30%

UK government tackles tax avoidance involving profit fragmentation

Macron’s wealth tax reform: a red light for France’s property industry?

UK’s Mark Davies & Associates in deal with Andersen Global network

HMRC accused of extending APN powers

Retail Banking

Deutsche Bank said to shelve $4.6 billion India portfolio sale

Metro Bank Provides 15 Million Ease Social Housing Crisis

RBI agrees to sell Polish subsidiary’s core banking operations

The Access Bank UK Reports Profits for the 4th Consecutive Year

BANCO BNI EUROPA grows significantly in 2017

UK banks sell asset-backed securities at fastest rate in years

Pensions

RBS to pay £3.5bn into pension scheme ahead of UK ringfencing

Investment consultants market investigation

Novia bucks trend with pension transfer value charge

FCA pension transfer tool clampdown claims more scalps

Recruitment firm to face court for illegally opting staff out of pensions

Brexit Clock Ticking For Expat QROPS Transfers

Brexit

Theresa May to offer Commonwealth post-Brexit bonus

Brexit’s offshore secrets

Brexit Punishment: EU could SHUT DOWN 300,000 UK websites, Brussels warns

Choc horror! Now even Easter eggs are under threat from Brexit Barbara Ellen

Finance Chief claims London will remain world's MAJOR financial centre post-Brexit

BoE: The agreement on the implementation period in the UK's withdrawal from the EU