AFB Bank has joined forces with Quintessentially, the world’s leading private members club and luxury concierge service, to launch its bespoke concierge service to existing and new top tier customers in a move which is a first for the South Caucasus region. Quintessentially and AFB Bank have identified the gap in the market and reacted [...]
Hung parliament uncertainty threatens to prolong housing sector woes
e.surv Chartered Surveyors, the UK’s leading residential surveyor and valuer, predicts that looming cuts following the election, coupled with uncertainty over a hung parliament, could slow an already stagnant property market. Richard Sexton, e.surv business development director, says: “There has been clear evidence in recent weeks of a slowdown in the residential property market [...]
Depositary Receipt Capital Raisings from India Surge 512% in First Quarter
- DR capital transactions top $200 million in Q1- BNY Mellon acts as depositary for seven of the eight Indian issuers in Q1 BNY Mellon, the global leader in asset management and securities servicing, announced that the value of depositary receipt initial capital raisings by Indian companies surged 512% in the first quarter compared to [...]
Leading Financial Experts Issue Stark Predictions
Leading financial experts issued a series of stark warnings on the public deficit, savings and pensions, financial education, regulation and macro stability at the Broadgate Mainland and Scottish Investment Operations (SIO) breakfast briefing held in Edinburgh on 29 April 2010. The panel were: o Richard Romer-Lee, Investment Director, OBSR, a Morningstar company (Chair)o Alan Thornburrow, CEO, Scottish [...]
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Creative Benefit Solutions celebrate award distinction
Andy McCarthy, client development director of Creative Benefit Solutions, the specialist employee benefits consultancy, has achieved ‘Highly Commended’ in the Group Pensions IFA of the Year category at this year’s Financial Adviser Life and Pensions Awards. Andy, who collected the award at yesterday’s event which was held at Sartoria on Saville Row, said, [...]
AFB Bank launches first AZN trading data through Reuters
AFB Bank, the Azerbaijan-based bank, announces that it is launching live quotations for the Azerbaijani Manat (code AZN) through Reuters’ Trader platform. The move, a first for the AZN, will give financial institutions and other Reuters’ users accurate and up-to-the-minute data for the AZN against the major currencies and the opportunity to trade the AZN [...]
List presents its Algorithmic Trading Solution at TradeTech
List, the independent electronic trading software provider, will be exhibiting at the TradeTech Conference in London from 20th- 22nd April. List will present its algorithmic trading engine Brain3 (B3) at the event. B3 is a low latency, grid exploiting environment which enables buy and sell side firms to develop and test their trading algorithms. B3 [...]
Waverton UK Fund celebrates three years of outperformance
The Waverton UK Fund reached its three year anniversary on 1 April 2010, returning 8.10% since inception, resulting in top decile performance within its peer group, Lipper Global – UK Equity. Over this period its benchmark, the FTSE 100 Total return Index, rose by 1.28% with the Fund delivering outperformance of 6.82%*. Fund managers Russell [...]
Recession leaves AIM stronger, Baker Tilly’s 14th annual Taking AIM survey
The fourteenth annual Taking AIM survey of institutional investors and AIM companies has shown quoted companies on the secondary market to reduce in number but increase in strength. Of the 300 companies that left the market last year, a majority had a market capitalisation of less than £5 million. The average market capitalisation of an [...]
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