Shaping the future of finance
Paul Volcker’s in town and he’s been everywhere! He popped up on Bloomberg, and “said the pace of financial-regulatory reform has slowed ‘to the point of ineffectiveness’ because of the complex work needed and resistance of lobby groups.” He made a few comments on Reuters, and said “there are limits as to how much more (the Federal Reserve)…
For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and the Eurozone, and how the developments of the infrastructures to support this is changing. The survey for 2011 is now live and looks at the world after the PSD and SEPA, particularly the implications of the end of the euro,…
For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and the Eurozone, and how the developments of the infrastructures to support this is changing. The survey for 2011 is now live and looks at the world after the PSD and SEPA, particularly the implications of the end of the euro,…
I was talking about lots of things yesterday but one conversation sticks in my mind more than any other: who will Lloyds sell their branches to? This is all wrapped up in a debate with the European Commission dating back to 2008, when the UK government flouted competition rules to approve the emergency merger of…
I was talking about lots of things yesterday but one conversation sticks in my mind more than any other: who will Lloyds sell their branches to? This is all wrapped up in a debate with the European Commission dating back to 2008, when the UK government flouted competition rules to approve the emergency merger of…
Another presentation at TradeTech that I was interested to hear was Larry Tabb’s. Larry is CEO of TABB Group, a research firm focused on capital markets that Larry founded in 2003 after several years leading TowerGroup’s Securities & Investments Practice. Due to our involvement in TowerGroup – I co-created TowerGroup Europe – Larry’s one of…
It’s pretty clear from recent issues that regulatory systems haven't worked. Take Gordon Brown’s admittance over the weekend that we made a mistake with bank regulation. The mistake was regulating individual institutions rather than the global system. That’s a mistake. But we have made many mistakes in the past and will again in the future….
