30 Aug 2017

London Job Losses: Trickle rather than Bleeding

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One always had to wonder why Deutsche Bank needs 9000 people in London, or HSBC needs 43000 in the UK. Was that not always padded by quite a...

Russia To Ban Cryptocurrency Sales To "Ordinary People"

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Rightly so, time our often over-reaching regulators wake up to this charade, and please don't call these 'Coins' a 'Currency...
29 Aug 2017

London Job Losses - trickling rather than bleeding

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One always had to wonder why Deutsche Bank needs 9000 people in London, or HSBC needs 43000 in the UK. Was that not always padded by quite a...
27 Aug 2017

A Dim View of Investment Consultants

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How Wall Street Gets Rich Off Savers - Bloomberg
22 Aug 2017

Bitcoin Hype - Regulators asleep or afraid

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Given the thousands of pages of detailed regulation that has been produced in all major industrial countries one has to wonder why the Regul...
15 Aug 2017

Bitcoin hype - stop calling it a 'Currency'

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Tulips, Tulips anyone, or maybe you want to buy a Bridge? Play the hype but please stop calling Bitcoin a currency. All sorts of stuff serve...
25 Jul 2017

Goldman Sachs is scaling back market-making for exchange-traded funds

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This will not make it easier to maintain orderly markets if and when the tide turns and markets enter a bear market. Markets move faster on ...

Goldman Sachs is scaling back trading exchange-traded funds

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This will not make it easier to maintain orderly markets if and when the tide turns and markets enter a bear market. Markets move faster on ...
13 Jul 2017

Impressions from Paris - Europlace Conference

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This year more than in other years this annual event was to be interesting given the fact that Brexit is in full swing (or not if you listen...
7 Jul 2017

EU Regulators Take Aim At London's Asset-Management Industry

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No surprise there, EU is basically a protectionist racket, dominated by socialist parties and lobbies, where even pseudo right wing parties ...