25 Oct 2009

Breaking up big banks? There is a middle-way

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A middle way to safeguard the utility component of banking and isolate the riskier parts of the business would be to require all investment ...
21 Oct 2009

New Credit Suisse compensation structure

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It remains to be seen how the growing complexity of compensation schemes such as the one published by Credit Suisse will affect the abilit...
19 Oct 2009

Mayor Boris still does not get it!

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One nearly has to feel sorry for Goldman Sachs - though I would hazard a guess that the people there would not give a fig for our sympathy....

EU wants automatic exchange of Tax information

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The EU develops more and more into a bureaucratic and undemocratic monster. The latest news is the 'demand' for an automatic exchang...
18 Oct 2009

Paradox of Banking reform

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News that some investment banks are on the way to make record profits this year and as a consequence will be able to pay very high bonuses t...
17 Oct 2009

Goldman Sachs - Investment Bank or Commercial Bank?

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The answer to this question may be obvious but since autumn of last year Goldman Sachs has switched to being a bank. And the problem with G...
12 Oct 2009

Implicit government guarantee for banks

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Niall Ferguson refers to the the implicit government guarantee for financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail' ( Daily Telegrap...
18 Sept 2009

Who should work in financial services?

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An article in today's Wall Street Journal is a timely reminder to repeat the career advice we often give when asked the question: 'S...
16 Sept 2009

Lloyds TSB - Neelie does it again!

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This is a full-time job - keeping up with the arbitrary rulings of an unelected bureaucrat in the twilight years of a career spent sailing t...
15 Sept 2009

Employment Tribunals as job destroyers

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The avalanche of employment legislation during the past 10+ years certainly has done nothing to make London - or the UK - a more attractive ...