Bank of America staff in UK to head back to work – if they’re jabbed July 5, 2021 Bank of America have become the latest financial institution to push staff back to the office in the UK, with employees told they can return to their desk when restrictions here are lifted. There is a catch, however: staff must have had one Covid-19 jab. Read more: Work from home guidance to be dropped in [...]
Transforming private equity with data analytics July 5, 2021 | City Talk Krekar Kawani CA, Founder of Touchstone Advisory, examines how private equity firms are leveraging game changing advancements in data analytics to their advantage. Data has been an integral part of human culture since the beginning of time. Humans going back as far as 40,000 years have been recorded using sequential markings by etching notches on [...]
One-in-four UK financial services workers want to work from home full-time, says new survey July 5, 2021 Almost one-in-four of the UK’s financial services workforce wants to work at home permanently post-pandemic, according to a new survey from Accenture. The survey found 24 per cent of the country’s 1m financial services workers “would prefer to work entirely from home once a full return to office is possible”, while 69 per cent said [...]
Citigroup boosts base pay for junior bankers July 3, 2021 Junior investment bankers at American bank Citigroup are set to receive a pay boost, the firm announced on Friday. In a memo distributed to staff yesterday, the bank said analysts, associates and programme vice-presidents working in the Wall Street firm’s banking, capital markets and advisory arm would receive the pay fillip from 1 July. The [...]
Credit Suisse to pay out further $750m to Greensill fund investors July 2, 2021 Credit Suisse will pay out a further $750m (£545.9m) to backers of its Greensill-linked supply chain finance funds, its asset management arm announced today. Thus far, the lender has clawed back $6.1bn of the $10bn of its funding supported by collapsed supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital, up $200m on its previous update. The new [...]
UK Bribery Act 10 years on: Have City firms improved their anti-corruption conduct? July 1, 2021 Today it is ten years ago that the UK Bribery Act 2010 came into force, on 1 July 2011. What has changed? The law presented itself as a radical and comprehensive overhaul of UK anti-bribery and corruption law, while its introduction was spearheaded by the Ministry of Justice and Serious Fraud Office (SFO), looking to [...]
Sunak to set out vision for UK financial services as new green bonds unveiled July 1, 2021 Rishi Sunak will today lay out plans to make Britain the most “advanced and exciting” country for financial services in the world in his first ever Mansion House address. The speech comes after the Treasury revealed the first details of the government’s plan for the UK’s first ever green sovereign bond – or gilt – [...]
Barclays to up junior bankers’ base pay to $100,000, following Wall Street rivals June 30, 2021 UK bank Barclays is expected to increase base pay for junior bankers to $100,000 amid an exodus of young workers. The pay hike would bring the company’s rates in line with those announced by JPMorgan this week. In April, Bank of America also increased junior banker salaries by up to $25,000. While the changes are expected [...]
UK’s debt risks soaring by over £100bn due to post-pandemic inflation June 29, 2021 The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today published its annual report today, suggesting that the UK’s post-pandemic debt could rise by over £100bn due to inflation. In its report, the Swiss-based bank set out its outlook for global recovery from the Covid pandemic. Its primary scenario was one of solid recovery but at uneven rates, [...]
Jefferies boosts dividends on back of record second quarter performance June 29, 2021 Financial services firm Jefferies said that it had recorded record revenues for the second quarter, prompting the investment bank to jack up its dividend. The New York-headquartered firm said that its revenue had jumped 56 per cent compared to a year ago, rising to $1.6bn. It added that its pre-tax income hit $429m, up 148 [...]