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...The top US consumer finance watchdog has raised doubts about megamergers in the credit card industry, just as Capital One attempts to close its $35.3bn takeover of card issuer Discover Financial Services...
...Much more importantly: the staff and service are faultless....
...This article is part of a guide to Zürich from FT Globetrotter Zürich has a hotel problem: the problem is there are not enough hotels like the Bellerive....
...to it was false, and one of Zurich’s own employees had exceeded his own underwriting limits, according to court documents seen by the Financial Times....
...This is a critical challenge in financial services....
...At a glance: Good for: Lakeside location; excellent service and a very knowledgeable concierge Not so good for: Size of bedrooms, given the price....
...The service is focused and friendly....
...At a glance: Good for: Location, service and grand-hotel vibe Not so good for: The hotel doesn’t have a formal spa, although treatments are available in-room, and several nearby Badi around the lake and...
...Zurich said it was “committed to finding a solution for this portfolio and will explore options in due course”, adding that the deal collapse did not affect its financial targets or capital management plans...
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Zürich No doubt many ski trips for FT readers have begun in Zürich....
...He points to the use of co-pilot systems to help reduce mundane tasks in financial services as in other areas....
...Sony will list its financial services arm in 2025, providing a boost for investors even as the Japanese group cut its forecast for full=year sales of its PS5 gaming console....
...Private equity group Carlyle and Abu Dhabi investment group IMI have agreed a fresh debt funding package for the Barclay family’s Very Group, the Liverpool-based retail and financial services group....
...to German security services....
...It is just one of several regulations that financial services businesses with cross-Channel operations have been trying to navigate after Brexit....
...The Post Office, which remained under public ownership when Royal Mail was privatised, made just £500mn of revenues from financial services last year....
...Spending on digital services is particularly buoyant in financial services, experts say, due in part to rising interest rates boosting margins for banks — creating surplus cash for them to spend on IT....
...The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that, in 2022, six financial institutions moved half a trillion dollars from AFS to HTM....
...With the indebtedness of governments, businesses and households at a peacetime record, renewed evidence of financial strains may yet emerge....
...fund, which provides financial support to the less well-off cantons....
...The UK’s top financial regulator has banned a former compliance executive at collapsed London Capital & Finance from working in financial services, in the first such ban handed out over the 2019 minibonds...
...Barclays has agreed to buy the bulk of Tesco’s banking business in a £600mn deal, as UK supermarket chains accelerate their retreat from an ill-fated expansion into financial services....
...Paris-based Amundi said on Wednesday that it had signed a binding agreement to buy Alpha Associates, a 20-year-old company based in Zurich that manages €8.5bn of assets....
...Chief executive Thomas Buberl told the Financial Times the group would ratchet up sales to businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees, pushing traditional products such as property insurance and specialist...
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