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Increased operating costs putting strain on SMEs

16th January 2015
More than half (59%) of small and medium sized businesses across the UK are experiencing increased operating costs, and of that figure, 58% say it is having a negative impact on their cash flow. The figures come from the Close Brothers Business Barometer, a quarterly survey of UK SME owners and senior management. Of those […]
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Swiss Franc breaks from euro peg

16th January 2015
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) put European financial markets in a spin yesterday when it announced it would no longer be pegging its currency, the Swiss Franc, to the euro. SNB is discontinuing the minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro. The banking institution said that it was taking the step to counteract devaluation […]
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2014 record year for M&A transactions

16th January 2015
2014 proved a record year in terms of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, according to data from Deloitte. The firm stated that high M&A deal values made an emphatic return in 2014, particularly in the healthcare, TMT and consumer products sectors. In the first three quarters of 2014, companies spent US$2.5 trillion (€2.1 trillion) on […]
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Industry calls for a global capital standard for insurers

15th January 2015
The recent release by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) of its consultation paper on a risk-based global insurance capital standard (ICS) is the latest instalment in a multi-year programme towards developing a global standard. However, while this is one step closer to having a clear standard that global insurers can adopt, further regulatory […]
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Dark Data the new challenge for financial services in 2015

15th January 2015
Financial services firms are facing a new challenge – dark data management, according to Harald Collet, Global Head of Bloomberg Vault, Bloomberg’s cloud-based data management offering. He claims that the financial services industry is turning a corner from simply trying to tackle data management, to trying to derive more value from the data firms collect […]
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Argentina needs to do more to fight foreign bribery, says OECD

14th January 2015
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Working Group on Bribery has said it doubts Argentina’s commitment to fighting foreign bribery after completing a report on the country’s implementation of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related instruments. Argentina still has no law to punish companies […]
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FCA announces further UK regulations

14th January 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced it will regulate seven additional major UK-based financial benchmarks in the fixed income, commodity and currency markets from 1 April 2015. This extends the FCA’s initial regulation of LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate), as introduced by HM Treasury in 2013. Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive of the FCA, […]
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UK economy could benefit from ‘good deflation’, says Cebr

14th January 2015
The UK economy edged closer to deflation as annual growth of the consumer price index (CPI) fell from 1% in November to just 0.5% in December, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. This is the joint lowest rate of CPI inflation on record, equal with 0.5% seen in May 2000. […]
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CFOs predict US economy to improve during first half of 2015

14th January 2015
Nearly half of CFOs expect the US economy to improve during the next six months and only 9% expect it to worsen, according to the Grant Thornton LLP 2014 Fall CFO Survey. The biannual survey reflects the insights of more than 1,000 CFOs and other senior financial executives across the US. The survey’s findings indicate […]
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UK businesses optimistic for 2015

13th January 2015
New research from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) has found that the UK ended 2014 as one of the world's most optimistic economies. Although UK business optimism declined on a quarterly basis (from 82% in Q3 2014 to 68% in Q4 2014), the UK still ranked amongst the top five international economies in […]
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Gilson Gray completes first Employee Ownership Trust

13th January 2015
Scottish law firm Gilson Gray LLP has recently completed its first Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) arrangement – believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland. EOT was introduced by the Finance Act in April 2014 as an innovative way of encouraging businesses to become employee owned through enhanced tax benefits. Gilson Gray advised […]
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US IPOs up 54% in 2014, EY report finds

13th January 2015
As at December, 2014 had seen 288 IPOs on US exchanges, amounting to $95.2 billion (€80.8 billion), a 54% increase in capital over 2013, according to the latest EY Global IPO Trends: 2014 Q4 report. While 2013 saw a revival of IPOs in the US, 2014 was even more exceptional, according to EY. As of […]
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