While London may arguably be the largest and oldest financial services centre in the modern world, many financial services businesses are choosing to locate their business in other regions of the UK… and they are thriving! These regions and nations …
Global market players are always looking for the next big thing , and one region currently standing out in this respect is South East Asia - namely the ten countries of the ASEAN bloc. One reason why I think they’re …
Islamic financial practice has evolved from the financial and economic principles of Sharia'a Law revealed within the Holy Qu'ran. During the past four decades the global Islamic financial system has emerged, underpinned by its values of equity, fairness and justice, …
When you live abroad but are paid in sterling, as I am, you become pretty sensitive to exchange rate movements. In the 18 months that I have been in Japan the yen has strengthened by 12 % against the pound. …
At the Paris Europlace event, which I attended last week along with 1,500 other delegates, the major concern underlying every discussion was that there is a risk that some of the new banking and insurance regulations currently being considered at …
I always find it difficult to get an accurate and up to the minute picture of how the UK financial services industry is faring. Of course, there are the excellent analyses published by TheCityUK on various sub-sectors of the UK …
Among the many ideas that are being discussed at the moment to make management more accountable for the risks they are taking, I recently came across a really interesting concept that is being promoted by UK-based Kirill Ilinski of Fusion …
There has been a debate in the press recently about hedge fund managers leaving the UK because of high taxes. Recently, an FT article published on 1 October explained that the hedge fund exodus is likely to cost the Inland …
In this difficult environment where many investors expect the world economy to go into a double dip recession, Scottish Development International and UK Trade & Investment organised an asset management seminar in Beijing on 15 September 2010. The event was …
In the discussions on the Greek debt crisis, I believe a point that is often overlooked is the interdependence of the various eurozone economies with each other. According to a diagram published recently by the New York Times, banks and …
