I hosted a fascinating dinner last night which built upon the comments made yesterday about regulators being unable to regulate. The theme was around how to make the G20 supervisory framework work with regulators, compliance heads, bank directors and a CIO in attendnace. All in all a nice crowd, and a convivial conversation. However, I…
I blogged a while ago about David Doyle, expert on all things in finance with a Brussels flavour. David and I regularly tag-team on MiFID and the PSD, and in the wider context of Europe's Financial Services Action Plan. In particular, he has an inside track on all this stuff and presented the latest updates…
The Financial Stability Forum published their principles on reservering, crisis management and banker's compensation yesterday. Here are the headlines: Recommendations and principles to strengthen financial systems On 2 April 2009, the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) issued reports covering: Recommendations for Addressing Procyclicality in the Financial System; Principles for Cross-border Cooperation on Crisis Management; and Principles…
The Financial Stability Forum published their principles on reservering, crisis management and banker's compensation yesterday. Here are the headlines: Recommendations and principles to strengthen financial systems On 2 April 2009, the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) issued reports covering: Recommendations for Addressing Procyclicality in the Financial System; Principles for Cross-border Cooperation on Crisis Management; and Principles…
I haven't written much about SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area, lately because there's not been much to update although the last time I did, I asked the question: "Are SEPA and the PSD completely broken?" However, there is now some news as I was with Gerard Hartsink in Hong Kong and Ruth Wandhofer in…
I haven't written much about SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area, lately because there's not been much to update although the last time I did, I asked the question: "Are SEPA and the PSD completely broken?" However, there is now some news as I was with Gerard Hartsink in Hong Kong and Ruth Wandhofer in…
Tom Groenfeldt attended our recent meeting of the Financial Services Club, where the new FSA Liquidity Rules were debated. Here’s his report: The FSA’s new rules on liquidity management threaten to overload banks with reporting that the regulator won’t be able to understand while missing the source of the current financial crisis, said panelists…
In what began a week ago as an attack on CNBC's Business News coverage and escalated into a head-to-head battle between CNBC's Stock Market pundit Jim Cramer and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, came to what seemed to be a conclusion on Thursday night as Cramer made a personal appearance on Stewart's Daily Show. The full…
On regular occasions I talk about disruptive models of banking and payments, such as complementary currencies, the new European Exchanges, Paypal, Zopa and SmartyPig. The aim is to illustrate that there is the potential to do banking without banks. This is not to say that I believe people want to do banking in a different…
