Tokenization is running out of technical excuses. The infrastructure is largely ready, leaving regulation as the main obstacle to moving conventional assets onto blockchains at scale, according to Ronald Richter, regional director for investment strategy …

Investors often overreact to news. Yet all that overreaction does not necessarily make the stock market more volatile. New research shows that the opposite can happen: precisely because investors exaggerate different signals, those reactions can cancel …

A decade after the UK's vote to leave the European Union, the UK is now perhaps one of the most overlooked corners of global equity markets. Years of investor skepticism have left many quality businesses trading at valuations below their international …

Scotch Bes is a new elixir designed to ease the burden of your debts. A few sips of this whisky will quickly send you into a pleasant haze of optimism. Scotch Bes gives you the strength and confidence to decide for yourself what interest rate you would …

AI developers are attracting users and generating revenue, but it remains unclear whether they can produce the profits embedded in US technology valuations. AI does not have to fail for investors to lose money on it. The technology could spread throughout …

Money market funds have become institutional finance's first serious test of blockchain. Blackrock, State Street and other major firms are putting regulated fund shares on distributed ledgers, making them easier to transfer and, potentially, to pledge as …

Sabine Kempchen has joined Feri Luxembourg as head of fund services for alternative assets, she announced on Linkedin. Kempchen joins from KKR Portfolio Services, where she spent more than 6 years, most recently as team leader for private equity …

Developed-market bond markets are undergoing a long-end repricing as investors demand more compensation for financing governments. France has emerged as Europe’s pressure point, with its 10-year borrowing cost now above Italy’s. French 10-year yields …

Mounting business costs are expected to fuel further consolidation in European private banking as firms face growing pressure to achieve the scale needed to operate efficiently and remain profitable. “Rising compliance costs, stricter regulatory …

Major international asset managers want a closer relationship with retail investors, giving them greater control over distribution and customer data. The model works in the United States. In Europe, fragmented markets make the economics much harder. US …

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Scotch Bes

Markets shrug at warnings of ‘painful’ correction in US AI-stocks

Money market funds emerge as tokenization proving ground

Transfers: Feri, Baumann, Gesda, Astorg, Clifton, Citi

Long end forces bond market reset

Private banks need at least 15 billion euro to remain viable

In Europe asset managers struggle to go direct