Mega Buyout Funds Raise $85bn

Defusing the ‘BNPL’ Time Bomb. More than 3 million households in the UK collectively owe £2.7 billion on ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) borrowing, as per an analysis conducted last year by economists at the Bank of England. Source: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/agents-summary/2023/2023-q4 These findings highlight the prevalence of this currently unregulated practice, particularly among young individuals aged […]

One in five (20%) FTSE 100 companies have Board Directors with a military background and 39% have ex-military senior directors.

Different businesses may have different approaches towards outsourcing and be more comfortable outsourcing certain functions over others, but one thing that most businesses would benefit from outsourcing is their payroll.

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April 2018 was the deadline by which large UK firms (those with more than 250 people in their employ) had to publish their pay data. The government deadline was set in order to explore whether the gender pay gap was still a prevailing issue, and if it was, how badly skewed the pay rates were between men and women.

Andrew Bailey will become Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), succeeding Tracey McDermott, who has acted as interim CEO since Martin Wheatley stepped down from the post in September 2015. Mr Bailey is being appointed for a five-year term, and will take up his new role once his successor at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has been found.

The world's largest firms need to have a global approach to tax, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Hedge funds finished last year up 2.42%, beating equities and bonds on an absolute and risk-adjusted basis, analysis of performance data by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), reveals.

The European Union has adopted a new raft of sanctions against Russia, over the continued tensions in Ukraine.

Scepter Partners, a standing syndicate of ultra-high net worth individuals and sovereign investors, confirms that on 20 October 2015 it made a non‐binding indicative proposal to acquire 100% of Santos Limited, a significant independent oil and gas company in Australia.