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Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co. announces a significant investment in leading emerging markets mobile monetisation company Upstream Telecommunications and Software Systems S.A., by Actis Capital LLP .

This week’s launch of My Learned Friend, a new social media style platform for legal research, discussion and debate could beckon in a new era in knowledge transfer for the legal sector.

Nearly two-thirds of yet-to-retire Brits (62%) say they think giving people more choice and flexibility in how they take their retirement income is a good idea

Hedge funds lost 0.09% in March, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge.

Temenos appoints Martin Frick as Head of APAC

deVere United Kingdom has launched its Workplace Solutions division.

STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that the EURO STOXX 50 Daily Leverage 3 and LevDAX x3 indices have been licensed to ETF Securities

The transition from one generation to the next can make or break a family business; and as the 'baby boomers' hand over to the 'millennials', the risks of getting it wrong have never been greater.

Native technology platform and network Adyoulike announces major UK acquisition to create European leader in native advertising

Emerisque Brands, a specialist, growth-oriented private equity sponsor based in Mayfair, announced today that Steve Back has joined the firm as an Operating Partner.

Clare Grout has joined the team of RiverPeak Wealth, the new wealth management firm.

Brooks Macdonald Group plc (“the Group”), the AIM listed integrated wealth management group, has announced that Brooks Macdonald Asset Management has acquired DPZ Capital Limited

The UK annuities market could decline by up to 75% after the recently announced changes to compulsory annuity purchase come into effect, according to PwC analysis supported by a new consumer survey.

The public need to be convinced that tough choices on upgrading national infrastructure are necessary, according to a new poll of more than 1000 members of the public by Ipsos MORI for the CBI.

Burden Of Proof In Criminal Tax Cases To Be Shifted Onto The Taxpayer HMRC To Get More Draconian Powers

According to research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates, advisor migration is projected to grow independent channels to 38% of asset marketshare through 2016.

Penney Frohling, Partner in Financial Services at EY, commenting on the Payments Council's six-month results for the new Current Account Switch Service

Public procurement of goods and services in 12 key emerging markets will almost triple to £452 billion by 2030 - but the UK will only capture £11 billion of this growth, if its market share stays the same.

The Latin American pension system has grown to more than US$900bn in assets under management, according to new research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates.

Teams of British accountants will help transform accounting standards and develop professional accountancy institutes in Africa and Asia, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has announced.

Ameripact today released its latest home-buying efficiency and money-saving tool, the Due Diligence Packet, a lender quality portfolio of information that includes everything a buyer needs to close on a home sale.

Only Six Taxpayers A Month Voluntarily Acknowledge They Have Committed Fraud Using HMRC Facility

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published its latest Investment Funds Industry Fact Sheet, which provides net sales of UCITS and non-UCITS for February 2014.

Rapidly expanding foreign exchange consultancy looks to PR to raise profile

In its first half 2014 Technology Value Matrix for Human Capital Management (HCM), Nucleus Research finds leading vendors are increasingly consolidating core Human Resources (HR), talent management and workforce management (WFM) functions onto a single platform.

Company acquisitions can have a devastating impact on information security and management, with the employees of acquired firms more preoccupied with the potential impact on their role than with the need to effectively integrate the information of both companies.

The wealth and investment management division of Barclays has seen tremendous traction in its Asian structured products business, with volumes tripling from 2010. Asia now accounts for 50% of structured products sales in the private bank globally.

New research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates, predicts that target-date strategies will capture 63.4% of 401(k) contributions in 2018.

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to rise from 4.7% in 2013 to a forecasted 5.2% in 2014.

Fitch Ratings views the entry of the International Financial Corporation (IFC) and the Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) as shareholders of Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional S.A. (FDN) positively.

EnterNext has congratulated biotechnology company, Genomic Vision on its successful listing in compartment C of Euronext’s regulated market in Paris.

The Christie Administration today urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to grant New Jersey residents and businesses who suffered property damage in Superstorm Sandy an additional six-month extension to file a complete flood insurance claim.

Citigroup hasannounced that it has reached an agreement with 18 institutional investors regarding the resolution of certain legacy Securities and Banking private-label securitization representation and warranty repurchase claims.

Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB), the largest Islamic Bank in the UAE, has entered into an agreement for an innovative new service with the Emirates Group (Emirates).

One in seven (14 per cent) of those planning to retire this year has made no personal pension provision and will be either totally or heavily dependent on the State Pension, according to research by Prudential1.

Institutional investors view activism as a successful tool used among hedge fund managers to increase returns and stimulate growth in their investments, according to a new survey.