Pershing has begun hosting its practice management programme in the UK for the first time, giving firms an insight into regulation, buying, selling and merging businesses, technology and changing client demands.
The UK could leave the European Union by this autumn should the eurozone debt crisis intensify further, it has been suggested in a study by Japanese bank Nomura.
The UK economy shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of the year, a far worse contraction than economists had forecast, keeping the UK mired in recession.