Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts
31 Oct 2017

MIFID: Now the Tax Man wants to have his cut

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Just when you thought the 1000+ pages MIFID nonsense could not get any worse this news hits the wire. Could it be that it was all along the ...
13 Sept 2017

MUFG said to pick Amsterdam for Securities Base after Brexit

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The Securities Diaspora gathers pace. There is only the little problem of human 'resources' to consider. While Japanese and Expats f...
30 Aug 2017

London Job Losses: Trickle rather than Bleeding

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One always had to wonder why Deutsche Bank needs 9000 people in London, or HSBC needs 43000 in the UK. Was that not always padded by quite a...
29 Aug 2017

London Job Losses - trickling rather than bleeding

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One always had to wonder why Deutsche Bank needs 9000 people in London, or HSBC needs 43000 in the UK. Was that not always padded by quite a...
13 Jul 2017

Impressions from Paris - Europlace Conference

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This year more than in other years this annual event was to be interesting given the fact that Brexit is in full swing (or not if you listen...
7 Jul 2017

EU Regulators Take Aim At London's Asset-Management Industry

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No surprise there, EU is basically a protectionist racket, dominated by socialist parties and lobbies, where even pseudo right wing parties ...
1 Jun 2017

EU wants a ban on UK firms setting up Brexit shell companies

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So what is supposed to be a 'Shell Company'? Are the Eurocrats going to prescribe the exact number of jobs that have to be hired by ...
15 May 2017

EU: Free Trade only when Eurocrats like it?

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Talk about EU being a bastion of Free Markets is Rubbish! Services - the growing part of advanced economies - are carefully excluded where i...
10 May 2017

Regulation: Race to the bottom?

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If rules are interpreted so 'flexibly' in the USA it will be interesting to see how 'Europe' reacts (if the sleepy bureaucra...
27 Apr 2017

Deutsche Bank: Bye Bye London? but not because of Brexit

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The track record of the bank is nothing to write home about. The huge build-up in London, from an insignificant commercial branch in the mid...
20 Apr 2017

SURVEY: 82% think more firms will set up in Europe because of Brexit

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Nothing to worry about, if anything positive for UK as its firms will have to set their eyes on export markets in a more pro-active manner. ...
10 Apr 2017

France’s MinFin: London to lose Euro Clearing

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Well, would not call this unelected bureaucrat 'prominent'. Arrogant would come to mind instead, but what is new? It is a tight cliq...
29 Mar 2017

Apocalyptic forecasts for UK Finance miss key points

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I am tired to repeat the same old arguments (first published back in Feb 2016!) that Brexit is not the Armageddon that some predict. While s...
28 Mar 2017

ECB's Sabine Lautenschlager on Brexit banking passport tests

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Refreshing honesty from a perfect representative of the 'Deep State', German version. Fortunately the major banks - they are the one...

Brexit will bring four types of market distress

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There will be some adjustment period and it could be turbulent. Problem with Brexit is that the final terms are not known so planning for th...
24 Mar 2017

Deutsche Bank is planning a new London HQ despite Brexit

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No surprise to our readers! Having too many major hubs is a recipe for inefficiency! There is only one Hollywood as well! Deutsche Bank is ...
21 Mar 2017

Frankfurt is in 'pole position' in the Brexit jobs race

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Been there dozens of times for business, nice people, but if anyone believes it will take over as THE major financial center I have a bridge...
16 Mar 2017

London’s single market access will end with Brexit

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No need to run scared, as I have stated earlier, an analysis of all business lines shows that the EU umbrella is not really that important. ...
16 Sept 2016

Brexit - Impact on London Financial Centre

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Merchants of doom are let loose by the result of the Out side winning the EU Referendum in the UK. All sorts of comments are made by object...
24 Jun 2016

Leave London? Cut your nose to spite your face!

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Talk about major financial institutions leaving the City of London in the wake of the Brexit Vote do not throw a good light on the leadershi...