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New domestic and EU laws will stub out menthol cigarettes and 10-packs from tomorrow
May 19th, 2016
Smokers are in for a bitter cocktail of regulation tomorrow as EU and UK laws come into force, phasing out 10-packs, menthol cigarettes and introducing new plain packaging rules. Manufacturers will be banned from producing 10-packs of cigarettes under ...
Undeniable Evidence That The Real Economy Is Already In Recession Mode
May 19th, 2016
You are about to see a chart that is undeniable evidence that we have already entered a major economic slowdown. In the “real economy”, stuff is bought and sold and shipped around the country by trucks, railroads and planes. ...
Privately educated dominate senior ranks at top law firms
May 18th, 2016
The biggest diversity survey of the legal profession yet undertaken charts patchy progress on gender and race – but privately educated solicitors remain vastly over-represented in the senior ranks of the biggest firms. The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s third diversity ...
The Endgame
May 18th, 2016
And how we got here There is a growing fear in financial and monetary circles that there is something deeply wrong with the global economy. Publicly, officials and practitioners alike have become confused by policy failures, and privately, occasionally ...
Legal firms unleash office automatons
May 17th, 2016
Artificial intelligence is relieving junior lawyers of time-consuming tasks Linklaters and Pinsent Masons have become the latest law firms to invest in artificial intelligence, as the legal profession tries to automate the mundane tasks that have traditionally been the ...
Hedge funds show best returns from Russian markets
May 16th, 2016
Russian assets have brought hedge fund managers 29 percent gains since the start of 2015, their highest revenues among emerging markets. The figure is eight times higher than the return on investments in China and 16 times greater than ...
The Big Four’s push to become the little guy’s friend
May 16th, 2016
Servicing the needs of large corporates remains the Big Four’s heartland. But the top four firms are increasingly attempting to disrupt the smaller reaches of the business market. In the 18 months since KPMG made a £40m sally into the ...
Tullett Prebon today announces the preliminary results of IGBB for the year ended 31 March 2016
May 16th, 2016
Further to the announcement released on 11 November 2015 regarding the proposed acquisition by Tullett Prebon of the global hybrid voice broking and information business of ICAP plc (“ICAP”) including ICAP’s associated technology and broking platforms (including iSwap and ...
Creditbit Claims to Be ‘Ten Times Faster’ Than Bitcoin
May 16th, 2016
Creditbit, an “open source digital currency protocol,” reports that it is “10 times better than Bitcoin when it comes to the speed and rate of transactions.” The team behind this altcoin is preparing for what they believe will be ...
Fintech Offer Opportunity To Investors
May 11th, 2016
Fintech is changing the way consumers interact with financial services and a key area for investors. Financial technology is shifting the business model away from cost per transaction to monetising data and advertising. New technologies include peer to peer ...