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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…