19 Nov 2015

Illiquid Bond Markets? Brace Yourself!

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Not much has to be added to my post from October 2014. Maybe the move to automated bond trading has accelerated a bit, but I would not expec...
18 Nov 2015

Hard to believe: Competition Inquiry into Fund Management

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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...
15 Oct 2015

Capital Markets Union

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The muted plans for CMU will always remain half-baked without a common legal landscape. Only when buying shares in any company sited in the ...
15 Sept 2015

Dark Pools - who brings light into them?

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News that Credit Suisse has reached a settlement on the 'dark pool' probe may bring relief to its shareholders, management and some...
29 Aug 2015

Money Laudering: what is a 'suspicious' transaction?

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Apart from finance professionals being clairvoyants it is extremely tricky to safely fulfil the regulator's insistence to report all su...
10 Aug 2015

Credit Suisse: Old wine in new bottles?

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Sad as it is to see a proud Swiss institution (again) unable to find a local candidate to fill the vacancy at the top of the organisation I ...
31 Jul 2015

Buying a Hedge Fund is not so easy

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H edge fund firms are difficult to sell/buy as they depend - in general - too much on the style of a few individuals running the show. Qui...
10 Jul 2015

Future of 'Universal' Banking Model in doubt

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The sudden exit of another Bank CEO - now at Barclays Bank - is a stark reminder that managing a ...
30 May 2015

Anti-Money Laudering measures bark up the wrong tree

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Prevention, detection and prosecution of money laundering has become big business during the past 20-30 years. And it will keep on growing ...
16 Apr 2015

We are an Earnings Machine

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Claims Steve Schwarzman ( CNBC ) - but is it very diplomatic to boast so openly about the profits Blackstone makes off its investors? Maybe...