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Financial Markets

U.K. Financial Services Firms Seen Hiring 4,000 in First Half of 2013

According to the latest CBI / PwC Financial Services Survey, activity in the sector rebounded strongly in the three months to March, with a robust rise in business volumes and an increase in profits.

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Financial Markets

Financial Services Firms At Risk Due To Poor Management Of Business Critical Data

Research by ClusterSeven on C-level executives and senior managers working in financial services in the UK has revealed dangerously poor attitudes to business critical data managed in spreadsheets and similar databases.

Pointing The Finger

Financial Markets

FSA Deserves Blame for Missing Libor Rigging

The U.K.’s financial regulator is partly to blame for not detecting efforts by banks it supervised to rig benchmark interest rates for several years, UK lawmaker Andrew Tyrie said.

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Financial Markets

Over 35 Recruitment Groups Sign-Up To CareerVidi To Attract Jobseekers

CareerVidi has now launched to recruiters, who are able to engage with the platform via Broadbean in order to attract both passive and active jobseekers in finance, professional services and technology.

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Financial Markets

UK Financial Sector Job Losses To Top 132,000

U.K. banks and other finance firms will shed another 18,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2013 after cutting 25,000 in the last quarter, according to a report by a business lobby group.

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Financial Markets

Nearly a Third of CEOs Believe Senior Management Should Spend More Time on Risk and Compliance

.A new research study released today by Kinetic Partners, the global professional services firm, reveals that even though nearly half of financial services CEOs (48%) believe that senior managers should be spending between 20% to 40% of their time on risk management and compliance, nearly a third (31%) of this group admit that this standard is not being achieved.

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Financial Markets

Only 2% Of Financial Service Organisations Believe They're 'Very Effective' At Retaining Future Leaders

Financial service organisations in the UK and Ireland are showing a severe lack of confidence in their ability to retain people critical to their success. Only 40% believe they are effective at retaining high value individuals* with specialist skills and only 50% say they’re effective at retaining future leaders. This is in spite of the fact that most invest in development programmes for their key people.

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Financial Markets

Wall Street No Longer The Fulcrum Of Financial Industry Jobs

The markets are crowing about jobs growth Friday, and for good reason in financial services: The sector added 13,000 jobs in September — the largest monthly gain since March.

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Financial Markets

The Top 20 Financial Centres

The Z / Yen Group has published the twelfth Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 12), sponsored by the Qatar Financial Centre Authority and covering 77 financial centres.

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Few Financial Services Firms Respond To Troubled Projects Until Targets Are Missed

Few financial services companies have the formal, rigorous and tested project management processes in place to meet their project goals consistently, according to new research from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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