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View: Why quashing Tom Hayes’ Libor conviction could spell a new era for the City
Tom Hayes stands within a whisker of rewriting his role in one of the biggest scandals to grip financial markets…
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The collapse of Archegos shows how important it is to understand data
Extreme liquidity, combined with high levels of market volatility and high-tech valuations, can make a lethal cocktail. The collapse of…
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Central bankers need to be put in their place as their sphere of influence grows
In the Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful People for 2012, Ben Bernanke, then the chair of the US Federal…
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The stage is set for a dramatic encore of the experience economy
By 2030, more than two thirds of the global population is expected to be middle class, with most of the…
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Will a government venture capital fund really help private investors?
It is hard to overstate how far the European venture capital industry has come since the turn of the millennium. Although…
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View: Is Brussels taking dirty money seriously?
Preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing has been on the EU’s agenda for more than 30 years. The…
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View: How lockdown proved the M&A defeatists wrong
“Everything ground to a halt, full stop,” recalls an M&A adviser as the pandemic struck. When global lockdowns came into effect…
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Is there a recipe for a ‘perfect business’? Stock analysts are sceptical
The idea of the “perfect business” — I was sceptical but listened to the elaboration. A perfect business requires no…
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The Euro 2020 final moved stock prices because sport makes us irrational investors
The Italian stock market rose last Monday while the UK stock market fell. Italy’s FTSE MIB index rose 0.92% on the day, while the…
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View: Why Google needs to step up to stop investment scams
Where do you find your investments? Chances are that, if you’re reading this, you’re a professional and don’t need to…
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Why solving banker burnout is far from simple
Imagine you are a manager, and an employee told you their job is worse than foster care. Another that their…
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View: Why pension schemes are ripe for consolidation
The government’s two flagship policies — levelling up and net zero — require the same thing: oodles of private investment…
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View: The secret to killing the army of zombie firms that Covid has left us
As Western economies emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, banks and governments are facing a new problem: how to deal with…
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Why high-quality firms have comfortably outperformed the S&P 500 recently
Trust is one of the most valuable assets a company can cultivate. Within an organisation, trust percolates into culture. Outside…
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View: Want to list your weed company? You’ll have to get past the FCA first
If someone told you they wanted to list their cannabis business on the stock market, you would be tempted to throw…
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View: Farewell, Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s very own maverick
A hundred years ago, when the City’s finest gentlemen met for an audience with the Bank of England governor, it…
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Five years on from the Brexit vote, is UK regulation going back to the future?
For much of the past five years there has been huge uncertainty about the post-Brexit direction for UK financial services…
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View: Why UK regulation won’t diverge much from the EU any time soon
The City has entered Brexit purgatory, an unpleasant holding period in which the financial services sector doesn’t really know where it…
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Aviva plans to shrink in order to grow in investment management
What is Aviva going to do about its underperforming Aviva Investors asset management arm, demanded Philip Meadowcroft at the insurance…
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Odds favour the Dow being higher at the end of 2021, no matter what
Odds are good that the US stock market will be higher at the end of December than it is today.…
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Why the finance industry sees a $500bn women’s health market as ‘niche’ and ‘uninspiring’
“Call your wife and ask her opinion of this,” turned out to be the most successful pitch strategy for one…
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JPMorgan’s Nutmeg play is latest in a fierce war for consumer wallets
That Nutmeg could not survive as a standalone entity for much longer was an open secret in the wealth-management profession.…
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Where’s the sense in excluding climate change data from a company’s accounts?
Last weekend’s G7 finance minister’s meeting was dominated by news on a global tax deal, but that was not all…
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Xavier Rolet: How central banks could end the crypto experiment
What to make of the cryptocurrency boom? I often get these questions: Insane bubble ready to pop? New asset class…
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The UK has a strong hand to play but needs repositioning first
Sceptics have long argued that the UK is past its peak and trading largely on former glories. They point to…
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GameStop, the rise of retail, and why we should drop the term ‘dumb money’ for good
Relying on gut instinct and lacking financial acumen, retail investors have been derided for buying and selling investments at the…
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