The winners of the Private Banking Switzerland Awards have been announced! This year’s winners for the Private Banking & Wealth Management Switzerland Awards have been announced and there were a number of worthy winners. From incumbent banks such as BNP Paribas and UBS to newer players such as Appway and Unblu, there was a…
Sold short: confessions of a young banker I had to watch each episode of “Industry”, a tv drama about young bankers, in 15-minute doses. This is no fault of the show, which is joyously binge-worthy and thoroughly deserves the second series it has just been granted. It’s because it reminded me so powerfully of my previous…
S&P pays $44bn for IHS Markit as financial-data providers race for scale. IN 2003 LANCE UGGLA, a Canadian stockbroker, founded a financial-data startup in a British barn. Endowed with just $17m in seed funding and ten employees, Markit started off by providing pricing for the opaque market in credit-default swaps, hoping to tap investors’…
A lot of companies struggle with two apparently unrelated problems: disengaged younger workers and a weak response to changing market conditions. A few companies have tackled both problems at the same time by creating a “shadow board” — a group of non-executive employees that works with senior executives on strategic initiatives. The purpose? To leverage…
