Temple Associates

Media Pundits and Deal Makers are keen to give free advice to Credit Suisse - sell this, spin off that - especially with reference to its As...

All very well, we all will sit on our sofas and - between walking the dog and helping with the housework - do our work on the pc and telepho...

One piece of consolation, the cities that want to steal London's crown will not be in a much different position, what price an office t...

Vikram Pandit, who ran Citigroup Inc. during the financial crisis, said developments in technology could see some 30 percent of banking jobs...

OK, so what about WW3, Meteor impact? All these events COULD happen, more work for the jobsworths in the ever-expanding  regulatory realm. ...

One has to wonder how banks manage to incur horrendous loan losses in the first place. While it is sometimes said that the only safe loans a...

Don't blame Politicians or Central Banks . Of course they must share the blame, but what about Top Management taking their eye off the ...

Can it make any sense to appoint someone to lead a bank when the person has no specific experience in the industry? Recent moves by regulato...

I could not agree more. With the arrival of Peer-to-Peer Lending, Robo-Advisers, Internet Banking and more stringent (suffocating?) Regulati...

Interesting contribution from the Head of Research at BIS. But when the incompetents in Politics and Regulation have the UK banks pay £45 ...

The sudden exit of another Bank CEO - now at Barclays Bank - is a stark reminder that managing a ...

No surprise that Dimon defends the status quo, bigger is better and the banking department store model is best ( Reuters ). But I wonder i...

One has to wonder if being a 'Global' Bank is really an intelligent business proposition. It requires Superman/woman to manage far-...

That is what a former Wimbledon Champion would probably say to the psychopathic politicians and regulators (including reckless Bank of Engla...

I quite often said that the control freaks in charge of our lives - i.e. psychopathic politicians - will not be satisfied with extending eve...

Last week's announcement by the head of the ECB, Don Draghi, that the Eurocrats will pump up to € 400 billion into a 'targetted'...

The US 'authorities' (if you can name them as such as the country becomes more and more ruled by out-of-control lobbies and zealots)...

Announcing that the number of jobs in the investment banking unit will be cut by 25 per cent over the next three years is as bad a decision ...

Every bank is bust if all depositors want their money back at the same time - unless a thorough reform (which we support) has mandated a str...

Every bank can be shown to fail under certain assumptions. For example a 50 percent drop in property and/or share prices, a steep increase i...