UK-based IFAs are the heaviest users of online transaction technology, with 99% claiming to have used these platforms at least once to manage and monitor client assets, according to new research from Skandia International.
Axa Investment Managers has appointed its global head of multi-asset client solutions (MACS), Laurent Seyer, to the new position of global head of distribution in a bid to attract and increase the asset manager’s third party assets.
The chief executives of the biggest brokers and financial intermediaries in the UAE are to be brought together for the first time to discuss the future of the industry at International Adviser’s Gulf Expert Investor Forum next month.
HSBC Holdings has promoted two of its senior bankers in the British lender’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, following its former chief executive Simon Cooper’s departure to head up HSBC’s Global Commercial Banking division earlier this month.
Paul Gambles and Graham Macdonald set foot in Thailand for the first time in 1994. Almost 20 years on, they are still there, and have built a business looking after other expats who, like them, relish the country’s unique appeal
MBMG Group, the Bangkok-based advisory firm specialising in advising expatriates, has said it intends to apply to the Singaporean financial services regulator for permission to expand its business in the city-state to include asset management advisory services.
BlackRock’s $36bn duo is readying for the inevitable rise in US interest rates.
Active Fund Services has suspended its Channel Island-listed Mansion Student Accommodation Fund.
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has made waves in the upper reaches of the funds industry and caused concern to banks, custodians, insurance companies and trustees, but little news regarding its impact has yet spread to the wider world. Few ultimate clients of the international finance industry have yet heard of it.
The Mansion Group has suspended its Channel Island Stock Exchange-listed Student Accommodation Fund.
Deutsche Bank has appointed Fahad Albader and Adel Dagher as co-heads of asset management coverage for the MENA region.
The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey have signed 'intergovernmental agreements' on the automatic exchange of tax information with the UK, adding to existing provisions that currently provide for information to be exchanged between the authorities of the two Crown Dependencies and the United Kingdom.
