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FCA Bans Commission Payments for Corporate Access
05/08/2014
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released its updated rules on payments for investment research, eliminating payments for corporate access with client commissions. Moreover, the rules go into effect in ...
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Barclays Telecom Team Defects to RBC
05/05/2014
RBC Capital Markets hired a European telecom team from Barclays, including London-based co-head Jonathan Dann and four analysts. The other c0-head, Maurice Patrick, will stay at Barclays. RBC has been aggressively expanding ...
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From Autonomous Research to Buy Side
04/22/2014
A former partner at Autonomous Research covering emerging markets banks has left to become an analyst at JP Morgan Asset Management in London. Giovanni Carriere was a partner at Autonomous ...
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Expert Network Adds Channel Check Subsidiary
04/17/2014
Cognolink, a London-based expert network, is staffing up a new channel checking subsidiary, Third Bridge. Third Bridge was set up last year as a separately branded trading name of Cognolink ...
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German Expert Network Adding 6 Positions
04/15/2014
Innosquared, an expert network based in Düsseldorf Germany, has posted 6 new positions: Project Manager, Graduate Program Project Management Studentische Mitarbeiter als Recruiter (in German) Internship International Project Management Internship ...
CFA UK Opposes Proposed Regulations
03/10/2014
The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) registered opposition to new guidelines for research commissions proposed by UK regulators. In its 32-page comment letter, which included a white paper ...
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From Indie Researcher to Greenpeace
03/07/2014
Former independent researcher Tsvetan Kintisheff, founder of Kintisheff Research, now manages Greenpeace's fundraising software. Kintisheff, who spent twelve years as a equity analyst covering US tech stocks, now focuses on ...
Corporate Access Startups Hoping to Profit from FCA Ban
03/05/2014
The proposed ban on payment for corporate access with client commissions by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) promises to be a boon to firms hoping to benefit from the ...
UK Asset Managers Promise Reform
02/18/2014
The UK trade association for asset managers, the Investment Management Association (IMA), released its long-anticipated report on research procurement earlier today. Not surprisingly, the report opposes a ban on the ...
Benchmarking Research Spending
02/12/2014
As the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has increased scrutiny of commission spending on research, a UK-based consultancy has begun benchmarking commission spending to provide greater transparency on research pricing. ...