29 Apr 2014

London - what would be effect of 'Brexit'?

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When senior banking figures  warn  that London's position as preeminent financial centre would be at risk from any British exit from the...
4 Apr 2014

Absurd Asset Quality Review

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Every bank is bust if all depositors want their money back at the same time - unless a thorough reform (which we support) has mandated a str...
21 Mar 2014

Celebrity Fund Managers can be an Achilles Heel

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Relying on Celebrity Fund Managers can be risky even for the most prominent Fund Management House. Recent changes at Pimco are just the lat...

Banking Stress Tests of limited value

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Every bank can be shown to fail under certain assumptions. For example a 50 percent drop in property and/or share prices, a steep increase i...
11 Mar 2014

Succession Planning often neglected

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A new study released by Stanford Business School highlights the cavalier attitude that many organisations take when planning for the eve...
6 Mar 2014

Monitoring Employee behaviour - a tricky problem

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Despite the rapidly rising number of compliance officers and the tide of regulatory legislation the age-old problem of supervising employee ...
5 Mar 2014

Superbanks - too large to fail, and too large to manage?

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Bank managements often argue that losses in far-away subsidiaries could not easily have been foreseen by top management. Such may be the cas...
6 Jan 2014

J.P. Morgan to pay $2 billion over Madoff case

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Not sure if one should cry or laugh when reading headlines such as this one . How did the parties to this shameful deal arrive at the number...
31 Dec 2013

ECB Banking Review - Moving Deckchairs on the Titanic

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More costs borne by shareholders, savers and taxpayers, more jobs for the boys - happy to be an Eurocrat in this age - and still no change t...
2 Dec 2013

Mentoring and Coaching - a simple model

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While some experts try to make things complicated busy market professionals need simple solutions when they reach out for independent advic...