The CII welcomes the Retail Distribution Review and believes that the proposed increase in standards will produce important benefits for the sector and consumers, in particular increased professionalism and a reduced risk of consumer detriment.The CII also welcomes the FSA’s desire to create a...

A starting point to any understanding of British professions in the twenty-first century is an appreciation of what it has meant to be a profession up to this point.This is no easy task. There is no single, generally accepted definition of ‘profession’ in the English language. The term has...

Distance, as a proxy for trade barriers, is found in many studies to matter even for weightless cross-border financial investments and lending, possibly due to the presence of information asymmetries. Its importance is tested in this paper using exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s...

Integrated services of financial institutions contribute to the quality and development of financial markets. The collaboration of banks and insurance companies through the bancassurance model, as the distribution channel of insurance products, results in reduction of business risk and costs of...