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Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) with specific responsibilities, such as Chairman, will come under the new Senior Managers Regime (SMR), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have confirmed.…

HSBC’s Group Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver blamed a ‘challenging year’ for the banking group’s 17% drop in profit before tax (PBT), as the financial giant posted its full year 2014 results today. The results follow allegations earlier…

For the second year running, Argentina has been ranked as the most complex country for multinational enterprises to do business in, according to TMF Group’s Global Benchmark Complexity Index. The far-reaching annual study by TMF Group has…

Legal & General Group has announced its intention to acquire 100% of New Life Home Finance Limited for a consideration of £5 million (€6.7 million). Newlife is a privately owned UK-based provider of lifetime mortgage products. The…

Global M&A value in the power and renewables sector has reached the highest level seen in the current decade – up 70% year-on-year - and any further upward movement would begin to move sector deal value back towards the heady levels…

Investors expect a buoyant UK IPO market in the next 12 months despite the uncertainty caused by the approaching election, last year's IPO woes and a fall in oil prices, according to the first Investor Sentiment Index from BDO's Capital…

New layers of regulation are forcing banks and other top financial institutions to raise salaries for specialist professionals in the UK, a new survey reveals, despite pressure to cut costs. According to the Robert Walters Salary Survey,…

Chinese investors are doing a far higher value and volume of M&A deals in Europe than European investors in China, according to data from Deloitte. In 2014 Chinese companies and financial investors announced 79 deals in Europe, compared…