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Stanford Group investigated by SEC, report says
Stanford Financial Group, which oversees more than $50 billion of assets, is being investigated by US regulators over its business,…
BySchroders Private Banking profits down by 4%
Private banking profits at Schroders fell 4 percent last year to a still-resilient £39.7 million, with net new business of…
ByReuters: UBS, CS fall back on wealth management
After curbing their investment banking ambitions, Switzerland’s biggest banks are again luring rich clients and this could help them weather…
ByGuardian: Madoff’s wife withdrew $15m
The wife of the renegade financier Bernard Madoff withdrew $15.5m (£10.8m) from an account at a Madoff-linked brokerage firm in…
ByStraits Times: Singapore denies it is a tax haven
Singapore is not a tax haven even as the Government cuts the corporate tax rate to 17 per cent this…
ByGuardian: Credit Suisse lost SFr8.2bn in 2008
Credit Suisse today reported a record full-year loss of 8.2bn Swiss francs (£4.91bn) after suffering losses of Sfr14.2bn at its…
ByBreaking news: Bankers apologise
Four of the country’s former leading banks chiefs today said they were “profoundly and unreservedly sorry” for events leading to…
ByGlobal depression time
Why are we calling the Global Depression now? Answer: because it is a fact and no one knows what to…
ByHSBC to launch $10m private banking rebranding
HSBC is to launch a $10 million rebranding of its global private banking operations, amid concerns in the wider industry…
ByGuardian: UBS loses £11.3bn in 2008, 2,000 jobs
UBS today confirmed investors’ worst fears by declaring an £11.3bn loss for 2008 and announcing it would axe around a…
ByFT: Rush to gold continues
Investors are buying record amounts of gold bars and coins, shunning risky assets for the relative safety of bullion amid…
ByA disappearance in Iran
There is a strong suspicion that Levenson may be imprisoned somewhere in Iran, and there is a precedent. The disappearance…
ByComment is fraught
I was ridiculed as a privileged idiot, a liar, and an imperialist; they relished their ecstasy in my virtual burning…
ByProfits at Barclays Wealth rise as group’s fall
Barclays Wealth announced an impressive 119 percent increase in divisional profits for 2008, as its parent booked a 14 percent…
ByReuters: UBS will hang onto US WM arm
ZURICH, Feb 6 (Reuters) – UBS AG (UBSN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) (UBS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has decided to hang onto…
BySunday Times: Barclays praised Madoff funds
Barclays Bank recommended that wealthy clients should pour money into Bernard Madoff’s funds, describing the $50 billion Ponzi scheme as…
BySunday Times: UKFI chair’s Liechtenstein links
The financier who has been appointed to protect taxpayers’ money in Britain’s bailed-out banks is a former trustee of a…
ByTriennial triumph
The Tate’s latest Triennial embraces post-post-modernism from around the world, in a joyous and difficult celebration. It is all, says…
BySuper-prime property falls precipitously
Despite the appearance of immunity from the falls affecting every other sector of the property market, super-prime houses (above £10…
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