01 October 2025

Crypto Passporting: Could the US-UK Task Force Unlock a New Era for Digital Assets?

As Adrienne Harris steps down as head of New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), she leaves behind a provocative idea: crypto passporting between the US and UK. For institutional investors and financial services firms on both sides of the Atlantic, it could be a transformational shift or another regulatory mirage.

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24 September 2025

Private Credit 2.0: Why UK Allocators Are Entering a New Era of Yield and Innovation

The post-2020 investment landscape has rewritten the rules for income, risk, and liquidity. For UK wealth managers, pension funds, and family offices, one question has quietly risen to the top of the agenda: Where can I obtain a consistent, uncorrelated yield without locking capital for a decade?

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17 September 2025

Echoes of 2008? Tricolor’s Collapse and the Uncomfortable Parallels to Subprime Mortgages

When Tricolor Holdings, a subprime auto lender in the US, collapsed into bankruptcy this September, many market participants dismissed it as an isolated failure. The company specialised in providing financing to borrowers with little or no credit history, packaging those loans into asset-backed securities (ABS), and selling them on to investors. The fraud allegations, including suggestions that collateral may have been pledged twice, seemed more like a potential corporate scandal than a systemic event.

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10 September 2025

Semi-Transparent ETFs: A Quiet Revolution or Another Damp Squib?

For decades, ETFs have built their reputation on one defining trait: daily transparency. Investors knew what they held, when they held it, and at what cost. That clarity became the bedrock for trillions in global flows.

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03 September 2025

Britain’s Borrowing Bind: Why Gilt Yields Refuse to Fall

The UK now holds the uncomfortable distinction of having the highest long-term borrowing costs among G7 nations. Last week, 30-year gilt yields nudged above 5.6%, levels not seen since 1998. Even the 10-year gilt yield, the market's benchmark, remains the highest in the group, signalling deeper structural and cyclical concerns.

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27 August 2025

Half of Gen X Faces a Pension Squeeze, and Women Fare the Worst

For Generation X, retirement planning has often been described as a squeeze, and with good reason. Born between 1965 and 1980, Gen Xers sit awkwardly between two more fortunate cohorts: Baby Boomers, who largely benefited from generous defined benefit pensions, and Millennials, who have at least caught the tailwind of automatic workplace enrolment. Gen X, by contrast, missed out on both.

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