• High cost of compliance

    Nov 4, 2014
    The burgeoning price tag for compliance is weighing heavily on the financial services industry. We look at the figures
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  • Five study tips from CISI exam candidates

    Nov 4, 2014
    In the previous edition of Invest (the CISI Student newsletter), we gave you exam tips from Robin Ellis ACSI, who had recently completed our Chartered Wealth Manager Qualification. Response to this article was fantastic – with CISI exam candidates across the world offering up their own tips for success when undertaking Institute exams. Below we outline a few.
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  • Word on the web: Banks under stress

    Oct 31, 2014
    Almost one in five of the eurozone's biggest banks failed the European Central Bank's (ECB's) comprehensive test of their financial safety, while British banks can expect a tougher examination of their financial health this December
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  • Isle of Man dinner kick-starts memorial appeal

    Oct 30, 2014

    The CISI’s Isle of Man branch got a major local fundraising project off to a good start at its annual dinner

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  • Continuing to evolve

    Oct 29, 2014
    With CPD becoming far more of an everyday feature of life in financial services, advisers and firms are busy considering how best to dovetail training and competence requirements
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  • Back story: Nick Bealer

    Oct 29, 2014
    Nick Bealer, Chartered FCSI, Head of Corporate Broking at Cornhill Capital, talks about life as a broker, his work helping Stock Exchange veterans and how he nearly became a priest
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  • Settling influence

    Oct 24, 2014
    In a long and distinguished career, Iain Saville CBE FCSI(Hon) has led the creation one of the world's largest securities settlements systems and managed $40bn of foreign currency reserves for the Bank of England. Here are ten things he has found during his time in finance
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  • Making his mark

    Oct 22, 2014
    From spearheading banking reform as a government minister to campaigning on behalf of his constituents for better pension products, Mark Hoban MP has always relished tackling the big finance issues
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  • Keeping you up to date with regulatory changes

    Oct 21, 2014

    The October 2014 edition of Change – the regulatory update is now available on the CISI’s website

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  • Economic crime and cyber resilience – where the buck stops

    Oct 21, 2014

    At a major recent event in the City – available on CISI TV – members had a frightening tour d’horizon of some of the pressing issues in economic crime, from boardroom governance through cyber threats to dawn raids by regulators (and worse) on offices and homes

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  • Stuck in reverse

    Oct 21, 2014
    Many in the finance sector now put more faith in the pronouncements of central bankers than they do market signals, laments Andrew Davis. He asks: how has this role reversal happened?
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  • Better protection needed against cyber criminals, survey shows

    Oct 20, 2014
    The financial services industry needs to do more to safeguard itself against cyber attacks, a CISI survey shows
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  • Claire endures longest day to complete "toughest ever" swim challenge

    Oct 20, 2014

    Could you imagine swimming for nearly 20 hours non-stop, in freezing temperatures and for much of that time in total darkness?

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  • Wealth check

    Oct 20, 2014
    His book on income inequality has turned economist Thomas Piketty into an international superstar, but who is he, and what has been the reaction to his book? Could the global wealth tax he proposes ever become a reality?
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  • Rugby-themed annual dinner proves a winner

    Oct 17, 2014
    Just champion! That was the annual dinner of the CISI’s West Country branch as it adopted an international rugby flavour
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  • Word on the web: Individual responsibility

    Oct 17, 2014
    While some have welcomed new legislation that makes senior bank executives criminally liable for reckless behaviour, others have warned that the rules might drive talent away from the City
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