Best of Lex: your weekly round-up
Black Monday, Netflix, Uber, Kurdistan oil, Bombardier/Airbus, US banks, Credit SuisseSource: https://www.ft.com/content/8cf6e50a-b525-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Fitch predicts correction in ‘highly overvalued’ London office market
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/f5ac71f4-3275-3357-9cf9-40565555cb65
Swiss Re faces $3.6bn claims burden from recent hurricanes, earthquakes
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/7f8bb903-4289-3766-9421-612b0802f5f4
Private banks coming late to the party in wealth management
How banks need to learn to offer a holistic serviceSource: https://www.ft.com/content/4601767a-a9cb-11e7-ab66-21cc87a2edde
Family offices: investments under the spotlight
Investment activities are starting to fall into the regulatory netSource: https://www.ft.com/content/4c6d79aa-a9cb-11e7-ab66-21cc87a2edde
Family offices: a history of stewardship
Why focusing on performance figures misses the pointSource: https://www.ft.com/content/403a2cb4-a9cb-11e7-ab66-21cc87a2edde
UK banking’s new faces: the outsiders behind the start-ups
Top business people from other industries are piling into fledgling lendersSource: https://www.ft.com/content/ad2dd916-ad17-11e7-beba-5521c713abf4
Germans save more than Brits — but they don’t invest
Our continental neighbours save assiduously for low returnsSource: https://www.ft.com/content/ba96c8ea-b34a-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Lloyds stays on right side of City PR guru Brian Basham
Victim of HBOS Reading fraud received £495,000 payout from UK bankSource: https://www.ft.com/content/f17f0da8-b418-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Unilever needs more deals to weather competitive storm
Group’s third-quarter update was met with a frosty receptionSource: https://www.ft.com/content/92111286-b4c1-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Xavier Rolet/LSE: plan bee
Chief has busted some good moves over 8 yearsSource: https://www.ft.com/content/ebc33988-b4be-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Money market fund volume of cleared repo trades climbs sharply
Rise in activity reflects changes made by the Fixed Income Clearing CorpSource: https://www.ft.com/content/1204e93e-b4d3-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399
American Express: risk and rewards
Consumer lending is lucrative — and dangerousSource: https://www.ft.com/content/2ae9dd4a-b4e9-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Lloyds describes shareholder HBOS lawsuit as ‘flawed at every level’
Much of complainants’ case based on ‘hindsight’, bank’s lawyer saysSource: https://www.ft.com/content/ac5fbc60-b4de-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Blankfein heaps pressure on May over Brexit as he praises Frankfurt
Goldman chief lauds German financial hub as UK PM seeks EU summit breakthroughSource: https://www.ft.com/content/4e276538-b4e0-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399
Blankfein praises Frankfurt as Brexit pressure mounts on UK
Goldman Sachs chief says he will be ‘spending a lot more time there’Source: https://www.ft.com/content/4e2667ee-b4d8-11e7-8007-554f9eaa90ba
Goldman’s Blankfein praises Frankfurt as pressure mounts on PM May
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/86d5fbee-6f8f-3e87-b53e-d7aa0880bc37
Don’t get burnt by foreign credit card charges
Never pay in pounds if you’re abroad — you’ll face a high priceSource: https://www.ft.com/content/fd20820a-b412-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399
City police raid 20 offices in crackdown on binary options fraud
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/f3d24bb7-385e-3b9e-a736-77ca6c2021df
Greece’s Eurobank to sell debt eligible for purchase by ECB
Bank’s covered bond will be its first in three years and follows NBG’s €750m bond saleSource: https://www.ft.com/content/252dbfd0-b411-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399
Source: https://www.ft.com/stream/71a5efa5-e6e0-3ce1-9190-a7eac8bef325