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Is this 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,…

Is this 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,…

Robin Hood or Robin Banks?

For a long while now the Tobin Tax, or Robin Hood Tax, has been discussed. It's been heavily promoted by sympathisers such as Richard Curtis and his luvvies mob, but has yet to gain serious traction in Parliament or amongst the G20. Nevertheless, it now looks like a Tobin Tax will be a reality as…

Robin Hood or Robin Banks?

For a long while now the Tobin Tax, or Robin Hood Tax, has been discussed. It's been heavily promoted by sympathisers such as Richard Curtis and his luvvies mob, but has yet to gain serious traction in Parliament or amongst the G20. Nevertheless, it now looks like a Tobin Tax will be a reality as…

Lloyd’s branch sell off … what a load of Verde

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…

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Lloyd’s branch sell off … what a load of Verde

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…

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Why governments are failing to regulate the internet

As mentioned, am in Abu Dhabi this week and will write more about the conference content during the course of the week but, today, am struggling a little bit as my blog is banned here. It’s the first country I’ve been to in my travels – and I’ve travelled lots – where I cannot actually…

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Fall out from the flash crash

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…

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The regulator’s dilemma: being DUPEd

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….

Review: The Independent Commission on Banking Interim Report **

  ** out of a possible *****   And so the long awaited Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) produced it’s report yesterday, and we all went … hmmmm. Some went hurray: Shares in Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland topped the FTSE 100 yesterday, as the interim report of the Independent Commission on Banking stopped…

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