Companies

Companies | 15 Sep 17

HMRC’s most senior tax professional is to retire, while Deloitte has poached a senior commissioner from the US Internal Revenue Service, and Standard Chartered Private Bank has hired two veteran private bankers in Asia.

Asia | 14 Sep 17

Around two dozen bidders are competing to buy the Hong Kong wealth management unit of French insurance giant Axa SA, according to Reuters.

Companies | 13 Sep 17

Italian insurer Generali has agreed to sell its Dutch operation to the former Fortis insurance arm ASR Nederland for €143m (£129m, $171m).

Companies | 12 Sep 17

Manulife is consolidating its wealth businesses and moving several key figures, while JPMAM has raided the UK Treasury to hire a chief market strategist for Europe and UK and Lombard International created a new chief operating officer role.

Companies | 12 Sep 17

UK financial services firm STM Group doubled its pre tax operating profit during the first six months of 2017, with new business from self-invested personal pension (Sipp) products helping offset the impact of the new government levy on transfers to foreign pension schemes.