Regulation

SEPA today, SAPA tomorrow

Interesting to be in Asia at the moment, which is where I flew out to in case you were wondering yesterday.  I’m here at a major payments conference and was sorry to miss the minor "hurrah" as SEPA went live on Monday.  Whoopee-doo!  Did you see the celebrations and fireworks?  Nope?  Neither did I.  In…

SEPA today, SAPA tomorrow

Interesting to be in Asia at the moment, which is where I flew out to in case you were wondering yesterday.  I’m here at a major payments conference and was sorry to miss the minor "hurrah" as SEPA went live on Monday.  Whoopee-doo!  Did you see the celebrations and fireworks?  Nope?  Neither did I.  In…

SEPA today, SAPA tomorrow

Interesting to be in Asia at the moment, which is where I flew out to in case you were wondering yesterday.  I’m here at a major payments conference and was sorry to miss the minor "hurrah" as SEPA went live on Monday.  Whoopee-doo!  Did you see the celebrations and fireworks?  Nope?  Neither did I.  In…

SEPA today, SAPA tomorrow

Interesting to be in Asia at the moment, which is where I flew out to in case you were wondering yesterday.  I’m here at a major payments conference and was sorry to miss the minor "hurrah" as SEPA went live on Monday.  Whoopee-doo!  Did you see the celebrations and fireworks?  Nope?  Neither did I.  In…

Bankers are overpaid, greedy pigs

After my doom and gloom week, I thought this was a good title for a blog entry although this is not me talking … rather it seems to be a campaign with a certain associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times named Martin Wolf. The campaign began a while ago, with a…

Bankers are overpaid, greedy pigs

After my doom and gloom week, I thought this was a good title for a blog entry although this is not me talking … rather it seems to be a campaign with a certain associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times named Martin Wolf. The campaign began a while ago, with a…

Five firm predictions for 2008

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

Five firm predictions for 2008

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

Five firm predictions for 2008

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

Five firm predictions for 2008

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…