Cru is considering an approach to former Arch CIO Michael Derks, with a view to him helping them assume investment management duties over the Arch Cru range.

Here we list who has moved where in another busy week in the offshore sector.

OBSR has suspended the A-rating for the Artemis New Enterprises fund following the announcement that the group plans to merge the fund into the Artemis UK Special Situations fund.

The expat mortgage market is showing signs of life again just six months after the near total withdrawal of the major lenders, experts say.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) may have deliberately misled the committee over Icelandic banks, MPs have claimed, The Telegraph reports.

Liechtenstein, Monaco and Andorra have been cut from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) "un-cooperative" list, as other jurisdictions enter a flurry of tax agreement signing in a bid to improve their transparency.

Telecoms giant BT leads the risers in early trading on Friday as markets edged higher once more.

UK investors in French sale and leaseback schemes should take advantage of "major" opportunities due to a minor amendment to a recently introduced law in France, experts say.

BlackRock has agreed to buy Barclays Global Investors (BGI), including its exchange traded fund platform iShares, in a cash and shares deal worth $13.5bn (£8.15bn).

Lighthouse has reached an agreement with Mortgage Intelligence (MI) that will see the network provide a centralised hub of product and procuration fee information for the wealth management firm's mortgage advisers.