Everest Announces Key Leadership Appointments December 3, 2025 Appoints Katy Bradica as Group Chief Actuary & Attila Kerényi as Group Chief Risk Officer
Could our daughters close the growing gender pension gap? December 3, 2025 The gender pension gap is growing. Could our digital-savvy daughters close it, asks Scottish Widows pensions expert Jill Henderson.
Coremont Secures $40M Strategic Investment from Funds Managed by Blue Owl to Accelerate Innovation in Portfolio Analytics December 3, 2025 Coremont, a leading provider of real-time, multi-asset class portfolio management software and analytics, today announced a $40 million strategic growth investment from funds managed by Blue Owl Capital (NYSE: OWL), a leading asset manager with $295 billion in assets under management. The investment recognizes Coremont’s position as a critical infrastructure partner to asset managers, hedge [...]
Ramify Partners with ROYC to Enrich its Private Markets Offer Under Its Own Brand December 3, 2025 ROYC, the market-leading European B2B platform for sourcing, structuring, and distributing private-market investments, and Ramify, the next-generation private wealth management platform based in France, today announced a strategic collaboration enabling Ramify to broaden its private-markets offering through a curated range of high-quality private-market funds and programs. The partnership enables Ramify to distribute, and scale modern [...]
Bank of England sounds alarm on leveraged hedge fund bond bets December 3, 2025 The Bank of England has sounded the alarm on international hedge funds snapping up record levels of UK government debt, warning that their highly leveraged bets leave Britain increasingly exposed to a bond market meltdown. In its biannual Financial Stability Report, the central bank said the large share of UK government debt held by risk-seeking asset [...]
CI Financial Corp. Announces Private Offering of Euro Notes December 2, 2025 CI Financial Corp. (“CI” or the “Company”) today announced that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to offer and sell (the “Offering”) in a private placement to eligible purchasers a series of its senior unsecured Euro-denominated notes (the “Notes”). Separately, the Company intends to commence an offering of senior unsecured Canadian dollar-denominated debentures [...]
Chancellor Rachel Reeves denies misleading public over finances before Budget November 30, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves has denied misleading the public over UK finances before the Budget, stating she “was very upfront” about the need to find more money, despite not mentioning £4.2bn surplus. The Chancellor has found herself in the firing line since Wednesday’s crunch Budget, as she faces increasing questions from opposition figures over claims she [...]
KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to RRE 17 Loan Management DAC (Reset) November 28, 2025 KBRA UK (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to five classes of refinancing notes and one loan issued by RRE 17 Loan Management DAC (Reset), a cash flow collateralised loan obligation (CLO) backed primarily by a diversified portfolio of Euro denominated corporate loans. RRE 17 Loan Management DAC is managed by Redding Ridge Asset Management (UK) LLP [...]
Banks to pay ombudsman more as Treasury crackdown costs £8m November 27, 2025 Banks will pay more to the Financial Ombudsman Service in the next year as the body strums up cash for its bill to meet the Treasury’s clampdown. Financial services will pay the FOS £86m in the 2026/27 financial year – an increase of £16m – under new proposals, which aim to beef up the Compulsory [...]
Why businesses can’t be bothered to engage ahead of the Budget November 25, 2025 After years of policy churn, rising costs and new rules arriving faster than anyone can absorb them, many firms have run out of energy to engage, says Georgiana Bristol There is a strange quiet in the business community this week. Not the calm of confidence, but the hush before something hits. Normally, in the run-up [...]