Temple Associates

ETF's have not been really tested in a major market downturn or panic. 2008-09 does not count as amounts involved were still quite small...

This will not make it easier to maintain orderly markets if and when the tide turns and markets enter a bear market. Markets move faster on ...

Assets under Management by Robo-Advisers are not yet that large. But when they are in the hundred of billions it will create the mother of a...

News that Credit Suisse has reached a settlement on the 'dark pool' probe may bring relief to its shareholders, management and some...

The one thing that surprises me - given the amount of ever-more sophisticated technology that is available - is the survival of the voice-ba...

Not a question of being smarter, though that may well be the case. It is a question of morality - or lack thereof. When firms are feted as ...

My prognosis for interest rates, esp bond rates, for the next few years gives a high probability that rates will meander around a relatively...

John Carney ( CNBC ) makes a new suggestion when he writes that rating agencies should not receive non-public information. While this may ...

The reported 'loss' that JP Morgan took on its investment account may appear to be large but in the context of a portfolio size of ...

The discussion about separating banking and securities and investment banking has reached a dead end. But the inherent conflicts of interest...

The example of a minor Austrian bank demonstrates the potential fallout that can be expected if CDS sellers are required to pay out in case ...

Says today's headline in a newspaper ( City AM ). To leave the decision about whether or not a CDS pays out in a 'credit event' ...

"But I confidently predict that there are big troubles to come. The system is almost insanely irresponsible. And what people think are ...

Norbert Lammert is the current President of the German Lower House (Bundestag). Today a headline tells us that he is also 'supporting...

The amounts hidden from balance sheet in the shadow banking system are truly frightening and can only be described as a house of cards. Tha...

An article in today's Financial Times bemoans the shrinking level of collateral and gives the impression that this would be something t...

When Warren Buffett spoke of derivatives as 'weapons of mass destruction' not a few belittled him as old-fashioned. Now that the ful...

While we are not in the camp of those predicting a black swan event in the global market for OTC derivatives we would none-the-less urge reg...

Reading Monsieur Barnier's latest utterings (pity he has no pregnant young wife, maybe that would put a stop to his unnecessary activit...

The renewed crisis in the credit markets that has been triggered by concerns about peripheral member states of the Eurozone festers like a s...