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...

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 ...

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

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Bureaucrats are hard-pressed to find enough to occupy the enormous number of people working at the UK's regulatory body, the FCA. The ir...

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

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

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 ...

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

Having been on the receiving end of many a sales call trying to convince me of the necessity of buying identity theft protection for my cred...

Talk of bailing-in holders of certain bonds demonstrates that investors and depositors in European Banks are well-advised to be ultra cautio...

Replacing the CEO? No problem, George Osborne can try his hand on running a real business, and his friend/buddy Cameron can fill the role of...