It’s interesting that we’re now less than a year away from SEPA’s end date for the Eurozone and so people are saying to me that SEPA doesn’t matter so much as a discussion point anymore. This is because the banks have got it nailed. Really? What about the corporate customers of the banks? They also…
It’s interesting that we’re now less than a year away from SEPA’s end date for the Eurozone and so people are saying to me that SEPA doesn’t matter so much as a discussion point anymore. This is because the banks have got it nailed. Really? What about the corporate customers of the banks? They also…
UK Chancellor George Osborne gave a speech yesterday on banking reform in Britain. Widely quoted extracts from the speech have been posted in today's news headlines but, for those who like to make their own mind up, it's worth reading the whole speech in full. So, here it is: Thank you for welcoming me to…
UK Chancellor George Osborne gave a speech yesterday on banking reform in Britain. Widely quoted extracts from the speech have been posted in today's news headlines but, for those who like to make their own mind up, it's worth reading the whole speech in full. So, here it is: Thank you for welcoming me to…
We recently celebrated the two hundredth birthday of Charles Darwin. Darwin, the man who broke through the prejudiced views of the religious world of the Victorian era by being brave enough to say we were descended from apes and not created by God. That is a debate that still rages even today, and it is clear…
In another conversation, I gained a new dimension as to how the regulatory and governmental influence is changing a bank’s outlook. I was talking with a very senior manager in a bank. This person heads up risk, audit and compliance. He is a member of the bank’s executive board. A heavy hitting player. He had…
In another conversation, I gained a new dimension as to how the regulatory and governmental influence is changing a bank’s outlook. I was talking with a very senior manager in a bank. This person heads up risk, audit and compliance. He is a member of the bank’s executive board. A heavy hitting player. He had…
No, it’s not about flagellation and sado-masochism, although the current regulatory regime is not far off that. It’s also true that the regulatory regime is pretty mind-boggling these days, with fifty shades of interpretation of fifty shades of law. This was made clear to me in dialogue with a group of European banks involved in…
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