18 Apr 2016

Europe is over-banked says UBS Chairman Weber

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I could not agree more. With the arrival of Peer-to-Peer Lending, Robo-Advisers, Internet Banking and more stringent (suffocating?) Regulati...
11 Apr 2016

Why Europe's Banks don't have enough Capital

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Interesting contribution from the Head of Research at BIS. But when the incompetents in Politics and Regulation have the UK banks pay £45 ...
14 Jan 2016

Another painful lesson from a disastrous Acquisition

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News that Unicredit finally has extricated itself from its exposure in the Ukraine serves as a reminder that 'Strategic Transactions...
8 Dec 2015

ABP to introduce 'Climate Budgets'

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Does it really make sense to introduce ' Carbon Budgets ' as a constraint on the mandates for Asset Managers? First of all, the ca...
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 ...