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Inflation to Hurt UK Consumers in 2017?
January 9th, 2017
Ever since the onset of the financial crisis nearly a decade ago, central banks have been struggling to revive inflationary pressures mostly through easy monetary policy. After all, rising prices can shore up demand and allow businesses to rake ...
Pound to Euro Rate: Beware a Capitulation Lower
December 15th, 2016
The British Pound is recovering from recent lows against the Euro thanks to some better-than-forecast employment and earnings data but we hear from one leading analysts that the GBP/EUR could be destined to fall as low as 1.11 again. ...
FCA UK unveils successful sandbox firms on the second anniversary of Project Innovate
November 7th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today marks the second anniversary of Project Innovate by announcing the firms that were successful in their applications to begin testing in the first cohort of the regulatory sandbox. The regulatory sandbox is part ...
FTSE 100: Losers of 2015 are Winners of 2016
July 26th, 2016
Mining stocks rose from the bottom to the top in 2016; becoming the biggest FTSE 100 winners of 2016, reversing their losing streak of 2015. Falling commodity prices dragged down mining stocks in 2015, and it is the oil price ...
FTSE 100 propelled higher by strong Asian lead
May 31st, 2016
U.K. stocks kicked off the holiday-shortened trading week slightly higher, with investors taking inspiration from Asia, where Chinese stocks surged by the most in almost three months. The FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.17% rose 0.2% to 6,283.68, setting it on track for ...
Android Pay launches in the UK
May 19th, 2016
Google’s Android Pay has launched in the UK, enabling millions of Brits to make contactless instore and in-app payments with their handsets. Bank of Scotland, First Direct, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, M&S Bank, MBNA and Nationwide Building Society are ...
TradingScreen announces Leadership Changes
May 19th, 2016
TradingScreen, the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading, and investment technology via SaaS, announced the creation of an Executive Committee consisting of three long time Board members, Piero Grandi, Pierre Schroeder and Robert Trudeau, to oversee the operations of ...
FRC to publish HBOS findings in the Spring
March 31st, 2016
Britain’s accounting watchdog aims to publish a full report in coming weeks into how banking group HBOS was audited by KPMG before the lender collapsed in 2008 during the financial crisis. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has come ...
Overall complaints fell by 1.4%, driven by a reduction in complaints related to current accounts and savings accounts. PPI complaints rise
March 31st, 2016
Financial services firms received 2.11 million new complaints between July and December 2015, according to new complaints data published today by the Financial Conduct Authority. Overall, there was a decrease of 1.4% in the number of complaints compared to ...
UK economy picks up at start of 2016
February 8th, 2016
Business activity rises at fastest rate for six months and in all regions, led by the West and East Midlands Wales maintains solid growth into New Year Employment continues to rise, and inflationary pressures remain low due to falling ...
