Aon buys Willis Tower Watson for £30bn in an all share-deal that will combine world’s second and third largest insurance brokers into a new industry leader and throws up challenge to Marsh & McLennan, which until now has been the world’s number one in the sector by revenue, one year after they completed acquisition of…
There is a scandal in the Wealth Management division of Deutsche Bank which paid £1.1m to secure the wealth management business of a senior Saudi Royal financial adviser, whose wife was paid according to an internal probe that led to two former employees being reported to criminal prosecutors. The money transfers were arranged in 2011…
Help to Buy was introduced by David Cameron’s coalition government in 2013, with the aim of helping more people to get on the property ladder, instead 63 per cent of people using the Government’s Help to Buy scheme could have purchased their properties without it, and 19 per cent were not first time buyers. According…
Zhang, a Chinese farmer set up a fake branch of one of the world’s largest banks was caught when he stopped customers withdrawing money. He created the China Construction Bank in Shandong a fake branch with card readers, passbooks and three teenage girls as bank tellers and ran for over a month and swindled thousands of…
George Osborn delivered his 7th budget as Chancellor, the first for a Conservative government since November 1996, unveils millions in tax cut but surprises with a compulsory national wage of £9 an hour by 2020. *New national living wage will be introduced for all workers aged over 25, starting at £7.20 an hour from April…
Shanghai Index and the Shenzhen composite were both down 5.8 per cent and 5.4 per cent respectively. The two indices have fallen 30 per cent since June 2015 and is destabilising the Chinese economy at a time when it shows signs of slowing down. China’s Securities Regulatory Commission said it had opened a probe into…
For the first time 2.1 million over 55s will have access to billions of pounds from today, are able to cash in on their pensions and spend them as they wish. Prime Minister David Cameron, has blown his own trumpet, that nearly 2.1 million over 55s will able to cash in all or part of…
The latest report by Wizsec, a five man security consulting firm, hints what could have happened at Mt Gox, which went bust almost a year ago saying it had lost track of 850.000 coins then worth almost $500m could have been an inside job. The bot known as willy assigned itself dozens of accounts with…
“Avoid bitcoins for Now”- Gavin Anderson On Monday, 5th January 2015, Security concerns were alarmingly raised at Bitstamp Europe’s leading bitcoin exchange, after an apparent hack that led to the company losing 19,000 bitcoins, worth £ 3.3m. This led to a sharp fall in the price of crypto currency. Bitcoin at its peak, traded for…
Blockstream was given $21 million by leading Silicon Valley investors including Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla and Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman – who aims to extend Bitcoin’s functionality so it can power much more than just payments. Bitcoin, is a digital currency built upon software that uses cryptographic transactions to prevent counterfeiting without the need…