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Why sales trading still needs the human touch
Chris Jackson is global head of equity strategy and head of equities, Emea at Liquidnet The pandemic has accelerated a…
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Martin Gilbert: Investors can’t fight the tide of digitalisation
Martin Gilbert is the co-founder and former chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management and abrdn. He is now chairman of…
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Glasgow’s elephant in the room: $1tn a year for emerging markets
The financial sector’s pledges at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow rightly came under intense scrutiny. But amid all…
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VIEW: Credit Suisse investors want a revolution
For years, critics have argued that Credit Suisse should follow Swiss rival UBS by scaling back its investment bank more…
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Why sub-scale Spacs need rooting out
Alasdair Haynes is chief executive of Aquis Stock Exchange Spacs are the ‘sexy’ sector of the moment. Everywhere you look, there is…
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Equal Pay Day shows why the City needs to step up on diversity
Maike Currie is head of personal finance and markets content at Fidelity International. Thursday 18 November 2021 is Equal Pay…
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Why a digital euro isn’t a forgone conclusion, despite its advantages
Katharine Neiss is chief European economist at PGIM Fixed Income and a former bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member…
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ESG is more powerful than former BlackRock exec Tariq Fancy thinks
In his Secret Diary of a ‘Sustainable Investor’, BlackRock’s former sustainable investing CIO Tariq Fancy makes several assertions that have at worst undermined…
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Why dealmakers need to take ESG seriously
Dealmakers have rarely experienced a period like this. Records are being broken in private and public market transactions, and new highs…
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Extending clearing equivalence is a dose of post-Brexit realism
Olivier Fines is head of advocacy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the CFA Institute The European Commission’s decision to…
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View: Politicians must stop bashing the UK’s banks
How much longer must the banks stay in the sin bin? It is now 13 years since RBS and Lloyds…
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Elon Musk unfazed as Tesla bulls and bears debate his stock sales
Elon Musk sold more Tesla stock as the slow march to selling 10% of his stake continues. Tesla bulls and…
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Why solving the supply chain crisis is still critically important
James K Galbraith is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security, holds the Lloyd M Bentsen Jr chair in…
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View: Why Big Finance must embrace Doughnut Economics
Erinch Sahan is business and enterprise lead at the Doughnut Economics Action Lab We face a climate crisis, spiralling inequality,…
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View: Despite Staley’s battles, investors have undervalued Barclays
When Nigel Higgins was appointed chairman of Barclays three years ago, some close observers predicted he would quickly look for…
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Hector Sants: Why financial services has to take pensions seriously
Sir Hector Sants was formally chief executive of the Financial Services Authority and head of compliance at Barclays. He is currently…
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View: The FCA won’t solve its problems with less accountability
Douglas Cherry is a partner at law firm Reed Smith The FCA is regularly in the press, and not always…
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View: China’s slowing growth and huge debt threaten investors worldwide
Satyajit Das is a former banker and author of A Banquet of Consequences – Reloaded: How we got into this…
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View: The energy crisis is a jarring reminder of what is at stake at COP26
Jenn-Hui Tan, global head of stewardship and sustainable investing at Fidelity International. While world leaders gather to step up the…
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View: Time for the Bank of England to talk about a digital currency
Tracey McDermott is group head of conduct, financial crime and compliance at Standard Chartered. She was previously acting chief executive at the…
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Why it’s cannabis stocks’ time to shine
Alasdair Haynes is chief executive of Aquis Exchange The City is seeing a flurry of activity around the research, development,…
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Countdown to COP26: A message to business
Each of us is responsible for our planet and the time to act on that responsibility is now. From China…
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How law became a gold mine for the rich and powerful
Katharina Pistor, professor of comparative law at Columbia Law School, is the author of The Code of Capital: How the…
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The UK government roped in bigwigs from HSBC, Citi and Morgan Stanley to help solve Brexit. Will it work?
Back in April, the government announced it was forming an Investment Council to help boost investment into the UK in…
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Mark Dampier: Why an army of new investors might be disappointed with markets
Mark Dampier is former research director at the FTSE 100-listed investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, and author of Effective Investing – A…
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Financial firms must deliver on the basic rights of shareholders
Political democracy is expensive, inefficient and a lot hassle. Yet we think it is worth it. Shareholder democracy should be a…
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Cautious optimism on the road to COP26 climate-change summit
At the beginning of the summer, I noted how the climate-change narrative had changed in recent years, thanks to tremendous technological progress…
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Helena Morrissey: Style and Substance – Review
Justin Cash is online editor at Financial News. The views expressed are his own. Helena Morrissey has developed eight criteria…
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Martin Gilbert: Asset managers are still lagging on technology
Martin Gilbert is the co-founder and former chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management and abrdn. He is now chairman of…
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City still divided over the benefits of the green investment boom
For some time, senior City folk have been saying that the hoped-for surge in green investment will not only be…
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El-Erian: Policy pivot needed to tame stagflation threat
A stream of recent data suggests that the global economy is showing signs of stagflation, that odd 1970s-style mixture of…
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Four years ago, I wrote that US stocks were not overpriced. That is still true today
On 21 August 2017, with the S&P 500 at 2,428, I wrote a MarketWatch column that pushed back against gloom-and-doom pundits who were…
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Chinese government must act to prevent an Evergrande confidence crisis
Many have attributed the recent decline in major global stock market indices to concerns about the heavily indebted Chinese property…
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The City must get ready for new rules on diversity
The following is an analysis by Charles Wynn-Evans, partner, Mikhaelle Schiappacasse, partner, and Nathalie Sadler, associate, at law firm Dechert. Their practices…
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Market-makers take on the banks in PR battle over trading reforms
When an industry lobby group starts a public relations campaign, the cynical observer instinctively asks: Why? Why now? Do they have…
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Higher taxes on stock dividends would hurt middle-class investors
Many US politicians trumpet the headline of raising the dividend tax rate only on those earning more than $1m annually. …
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Why Spacs might just bounce back from their miserable year
2021 has been a miserable year for Spacs. The well documented sagas and ensuing share price volatility around companies like…
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Brexit skills shortage crisis risks London handing its finance crown to rivals
The headlines were stark. “Christmas set for delivery mayhem amid UK lorry driver shortage,” warned the Daily Express. “Thousands more…
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Why UK investors still aren’t backing Spacs
The regulator may have shown its hand, but the UK market is still waiting for a Spac boom to materialise…
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Where has all the quantitative easing money gone?
Amid all the talk of when and how to end or reverse quantitative easing, one question is almost never discussed: Why have…
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Index-linked gilts bubble threatens £200bn loss for pension schemes
Many of the lucky pensioners who are beneficiaries of final salary schemes will have been able to shrug off the surge…
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Why regulators must open up their data to the City
Opening up regulatory data to the public sounds radical, doesn’t it? But there are strong precedents that show it’s technically…
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Blanchflower: Five middle-aged white guys? So much for diversity at the Bank of England
David Blanchflower, also known as Danny, is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and part-time professor…
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The future of renewable energy is coming. Investors must be ready.
In recent decades, the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the…
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Launching a Spac in the UK? Here’s a quick checklist of 10 things to know first
The Financial Conduct Authority has changed the rules that govern the listing of Spacs on the London Stock Exchange, finally enabling…
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Why financial wellbeing must be the City’s focus after the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic continues to have an impact on the UK economy and on people’s personal finances. According to the…
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Why we need a crypto regulator
The world’s most powerful regulatory bodies, including those in the US and the UK, have been publicly grappling with how…
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Europe’s banks can’t ignore the M&A rush in fight with the US giants
The global economy is on a mergers and acquisitions tear, with more tie-ups in the first half of 2021 than…
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Has Brexit really battered the City?
Remember all the outrage about the government prioritising “fish over finance” in the Brexit trade negotiations? Towards the end of…
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An ode to the City as I prepare to leave it
Coq d’Argent is a terrible restaurant. The food is bland. The decor tired. The service obsequious. The clientele loud and…
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