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Of Mice & Mergers: Everything You Need to Know About the Disney Fox Takeover

27th March 2018
Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox means that the House of Mouse now controls a huge amount of our most beloved films and television series. Announced in December 2017 and expected to take until at least 2021 to complete, this $66.1bn deal (that included taking on a sizeable debt portfolio from Fox) ranks amongst the […]
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Twitter Boss Is Wrong to Be So Bullish on Bitcoin

26th March 2018
Bitcoin will not become the world’s sole currency in 10 years - there will be many successful cryptocurrencies - and Ethereum is likely to take over Bitcoin’s dominant status, affirms the deVere Group. The comments from Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group, follows bullish Bitcoin claims from Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of […]
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Fragility Worldwide: Trade Wars, M&A and Global Markets

26th March 2018
With this week’s market commentary from Rebecca O’Keeffe, Head of Investment at interactive investor, Finance Monthly learns about global markets, the US-China trade war and about recent activity in the M&A sphere. A turnaround in Asian markets has seen US futures rise and eased the pressure on European equity markets. The last two months have […]
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Who is Alexander Nix? Meet the Man Behind Cambridge Analytica

26th March 2018
Protagonist of this week's news, Alexander Nix is the executive at the centre of the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook controversy surrounding political campaign influence, sly data based marketing and supposed behind-our-backs data harvesting through everyone's favourite social media platform. In this video CEO Today delves in to the life of Alexander Nix, a very private […]
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More Women Than Ever Are Trading Thanks to Crypto

23rd March 2018
Trading is no longer a male-only club. Women now represent 19% of online traders worldwide, and they’re also more successful at it than their male counterparts. This stems from an international report assessing the habits and demographic data of more than 500,000 traders. It was published by BrokerNotes, the online trading comparison site. What’s caused […]
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Is WhatsApp Facilitating Banking Fraud?

23rd March 2018
Sharing confidential information is a data protection issue with more and more red tape every day. With more and more apps differentiating encryption methods, this becomes even harder to manage for authorities. Below Finance Monthly hears about the potential for banking fraud via apps such as WhatsApp from Neil Swift, Partner, and Nicholas Querée, Associate, […]
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VCTs Set to Piggy Back SME Funding and Investors’ Portfolios

22nd March 2018
Venture capital trusts (VCTs) remain front of mind for both SMEs and investors. In the 2016/17 tax period, fundraising stood at £542m – the highest figure in more than a decade – according to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). Also, measures in last year’s budget and recommendations in the Patient Capital Review indicate that […]
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The Future of Management Consultancy & the Challenges Ahead

22nd March 2018
Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb and Uber are regularly cited as examples of major disruptors. However, there are many more examples on the horizon. Electric and driverless cars will soon disrupt many industries including automobile manufacturing, rental, leasing and motor insurance markets, while the growing popularity of robo-advisors already threatens the existence of traditional financial advisors. For […]
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Banks Fighting Back Against Money Supermarket ‘Duopoly’

21st March 2018
Money Supermarket and MoneySavingExpert have created an effectively “duopoly” of the online search results in consumer banking, forcing competing brands to take a new approach to search marketing, according to Stickyeyes. The two websites lead the way in driving traffic from organic search in the consumer banking sector, with competing brands now taking a more […]
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Global Finance Watchdog to Evaluate UK for First Time in Over a Decade

21st March 2018
The international community’s anti-money laundering watchdog is on UK soil putting the country through its paces. Inspections of Britain’s defences against terrorists and money launderers by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) are relatively rare but hugely important. The last evaluation was in June 2007 and negative findings can severely impact the country’s reputation in […]
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Your Thoughts: UK Slowest growth in G20?

20th March 2018
According to recent reports, the UK economy is set to grow at a slower pace than any other major advanced or emerging nation in 2018, according to the OECD. The OECD says UK growth is forecast at 1.3% in 2018 amid a strengthening global recovery. Earlier figures presented a 1.2% growth; however this is still […]
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Finance Bill Will Curtail Leisure & Hospitality Growth

20th March 2018
The UK’s Finance Bill received Royal assent yesterday, meaning investors can no longer benefit from tax-efficient schemes like VCTs and EIS in low-risk investment. Chris Sutton, Head of Leisure & Hospitality at MHA MacIntyre Hudson comments below. The Finance Bill has now received Royal Assent and will bring the ‘risk-to-capital’ condition for venture capital trusts […]
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