17 Jun 2013

Co-op Bank: Slaughter of the Innocents?

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Talk of bailing-in holders of certain bonds demonstrates that investors and depositors in European Banks are well-advised to be ultra cautio...
13 Jun 2013

Hester to leave RBS by 'mutual agreement'

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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...
10 Jun 2013

Bureaucrats to run UK Financial Sector

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The Great, the Good and the Not-so-Good are slowly taking over the running of the UK Financial Sector. After all, it the Establishment manag...
22 May 2013

EU Bonus Cap - Welfare for all is ultimate destination!

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One may agree with this policy  ( EU casts wider net for Bank Bonuses, CNBC ) or not - but there will be many side-effects, intended or not...
7 May 2013

Commerzbank defeated in Bonus Fight

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All managers involved in employee compensation will be well advised to study the implications of this protracted legal case (see here  and h...
17 Apr 2013

Scariest Part of Gold Crash?

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Reads a headline but the article forgets to mention what really should scare investors, market professionals and regulators: the fact that t...
11 Apr 2013

German Managers want banking pay limited - but not their own

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A poll conducted by Handelsblatt comes to the conclusion that German Managers favour limiting pay in the banking industry but not in their...

Fed sends Minutes a Day (!) early - the real questions

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In the Lobby-infested cesspool that is Washington it is no surprise to find that the Fed 'accidentally' sent copies of the latest Mi...
10 Apr 2013

Libor - Regulators asleep on the Watch (again)?

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While I have doubts that the alleged or actual manipulations of the Libor rate-setting process really did major harm to anybody it is amazin...
4 Apr 2013

Salz Report on Barclays - another Figleaf for the Establishment

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The lengthy - and ridiculously expensive - Salz Report has to be seen in the long English tradition of conducting expensive and lengthy enq...