A cross-industry working group in Luxembourg is seeking new ways to enable financial technology to thrive in Europe’s tough regulatory environment. Updating the country’s financial services outsourcing rules could help unlock the potential of open …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. CapitalatWork is investigating the possibility of making small acquisitions in the Netherlands. The Belgian asset manager states it already has sufficient critical mass in its home market and the …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. Factor investing in bonds is making inroads with both institutional and wholesale investors, according to a study by Invesco. However, there’s still a perceived lack of suitable products. …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. The year 2018 saw a 37% jump in the number of worldwide single family offices to no fewer than 7,300. Altogether family offices manage assets of nearly 6 trillion dollars. The survey of Campden …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. Millennials are more interested in thematic investing than other age groups. Especially funds that focus on sustainability, education, infrastructure innovation, food and urbanisation are popular …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. A sudden liquidity drought is a serious threat to investors in European corporate bonds, so warns Ludovic Colin, manager of the Vontobel Bond Global Aggregate Fund. It means corporate bond markets …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. Luxembourg banks want to work together to create common standards on certain compliance-related functions, a survey by the Luxembourg Bankers’ Association ABBL among its member showed. 93% of …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. Luxembourg’s banks are not yet reaping the benefits of Brexit as Brexit-related additional costs are outstripping the rise in revenues. This has led to a year-on-year decline of 5.4% in banks’ …

Cet article est seulement disponible en anglais. Désolé. “In 2018, 21 banks active [in Luxemburg] for more than three years had a cost to income ratio in excess of 100%, and there could be more this year,” CSSF director general Claude Marx said recently. …

Iqbal Khan, the new co-head of global wealth management at UBS, plans to break up the Swiss bank's dedicated unit for the ultra wealthy. According to the Financial Times, this is part of an overhaul designed to increase higher-margin lending to some of …

Developing Luxembourg's Fintech framework

CapitalatWork in search of acquisitions in the Netherlands

Bond factor investing popularity on the rise

Number of family offices soars worldwide

It’s all about themes for millennial investors

‘Liquidity crisis threatens bond market’

Luxembourg bankers support mutualisation of finance functions

Brexit cost hikes dent Luxembourg bank profits

Luxembourg banks at the crossroads

UBS plans to wind down dedicated unit for the super-rich