News

The Bank of England and Barclays were in almost daily contact over inter-bank lending at the end of October 2008, according to newly released emails.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPAM) has launched an emerging market income fund for Richard Titherington.

Rob Page, partner at Jeremy Lang and William Pattisson's Ardevora boutique, is leaving the firm.

Zurich UK Life is to restructure the business into a three-pronged proposition, with one unit to cater for all pre-retail distribution review (RDR) business and products.

Supermarket Asda has rebranded its financial services offering in a bid to better compete with its rivals.

The Building Societies Association (BSA) has called for increased action against claims management companies (CMCs) after witnessing a huge increase in complaints.

Brussels is proposing new rules to prevent the manipulation of LIBOR as part of a crackdown in the wake of the rate-fixing scandal.

Sanjeev Shah has stepped down as manager of Fidelity's Special Values investment trust, after requesting to be taken off the mandate.

Investec Structured Products has launched its latest collection of plans offering a variety of structured risk and return profiles across two product risk categories; Deposit and Investment.

Friends Life has launched Friends Life Investments (FLI), its in-house asset management business with £6bn assets under management.