Temple Associates

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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. ...

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. ...

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...

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...

Following up on my post from earlier this year (see below) I want to reply to an important point made by those arguing against Brexit. It is...

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

The muted plans for CMU will always remain half-baked without a common legal landscape. Only when buying shares in any company sited in the ...

More and more desperate calls for all-out QE in the Eurozone make me laugh and cry at the same time. Laugh because it is not very likely tha...

European Commission to investigate possibility of levy to fund EIOPA ( IPE ) The EU is particulary shameless as there is no proper supervis...

A few years ago (2005) we warned that anyone continuing to hold Italian government bonds yielding a measly 15 basis points more then German ...

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)...

When senior banking figures  warn  that London's position as preeminent financial centre would be at risk from any British exit from the...

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...