Temple Associates

News that UK employees are to be 'given' more flexible working rights may sound good news, but the question is: How much, and how mu...

While some are supposed to have become rich due to the wonders of the digital "currency" hype one should remember that this is a g...

The drumbeat goes on, any number of self-appointed 'experts'  push bitcoin etal, still not clear what 'value' it has or pro...

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 ...

Let self-interested promoters and their acolytes in the Media invest their hard-earned savings in a bit of (hot) air, or better: some digits...

When well-paid (overpaid?) top executives behave like this one should not wonder that Capitalism and the Market System increasingly lose pub...

Rightly so, time our often over-reaching regulators wake up to this charade, and please don't call these 'Coins' a 'Currency...

Given the thousands of pages of detailed regulation that has been produced in all major industrial countries one has to wonder why the Regul...

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

Should national and supranational regulation allow the unconstrained outsourcing of vital enterprise functions? Information Technology is no...

Can one call a $5 million fine significant given that Cooperman is a certified billionaire? Slap on the wrist would be more appropriate. And...

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

My (pessimistic) prognosis of  'One Compliance Kommissar behind every productive Staffer' is soon (already?) sad reality. Wish the s...

No surprise! Anyone who ever had to read through the garbage produced by the FSA, FCA, Bafin etc would heartily agree. At least Brexit will ...

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

It is always reassuring that the cast of thousands employed in the recently-established regulatory silos are put to good use. Even if it is ...

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...

Yesterday's headline read Green 'missed five chances to save BHS pension fund.' But the article missed the possibility that Phi...

While this news item illustrates the extraordinary influence the - mostly Switzerland-based - Commodity Trading firms have in the markets t...

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