Charles Stanley to drop 200-year-old name in Raymond James rebrand

Raymond James revealed today (18 June) that it would unite its UK wealth management businesses under its own brand. The rebrand was undertaken with the intention of supporting "the long-term ambition of becoming one of the top five wealth management firms in the UK," the group explained. The UK wealth manager's brand dates to the name of the eponymous banker Charles Stanley who, in the 1830s, set up a branch in London for a Sheffield partnership established 40 years earlier. In 1947, Evelyn Stanley, Charles's grandson, made Seymour Howard a senior partner, and the Howard family con...