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The lack of leadership in the financial markets 29/03/10
At a recent conference the sorry state of leadership and decision making capability in today's financial markets was perfectly illustrated. FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) did an outstanding job in assembling many of the leading organisations and leading practitioners to debate plenty of the problems ailing today's financial markets. But at the end of the day I was left asking where was the real leadership and who or what organisation is really tackling the problems and would be able to introduce solutions for implementation?
Sants or Sinner at the FSA? 18/09/10
Hector Sants has announced his departure from the FSA after three monumental years that has seen the finance industry almost collapse and with politicians taking a direct role in saving the UK banks. The fact that this scenario had to be played out casts a shadow over the regulatory capability of the FSA and of course...

Trade Reporting; all at sea
17/09/09
You would have though that trade reporting would be a simple thing with the regulatory organisation specifying what they wanted reported, by what medium, by whom and when but this is all too simplistic for today's markets. A discussion with one of the UK's top firm's compliance officers this week opened my eyes to the sheer lunacy of ......
MiFID fails to deliver 11/09/09
Latest surveys are beginning to show clearly that MiFID is failing to achieve one of the most important objectives of reducing investor costs. One survey might be wrong but when the results are consistent we can rely on the overall picture it is presenting. MiFID was always going to be....
Be prepared for the regulatory Tsunami 26/01/09 

The analytical period for the world’s worst financial crisis is well underway and due to the depth and breadth of the many problems that need to be overcome, the success of this analysis will be vital in.....

The Banking Crisis and the Lost Trillions20/01/09
The UK and US Governments have been plying billions of capital into the banking sector that will in time amount to trillions of dollars. All this in an attempt to kick start normal lending and borrowing of banks in the hope......

Is SWIFT Running Fast into a Monopoly?
10/11/2009
The news that SWIFT has been organising meetings between payment banks and several large Corporates in their Le Hulpe offices could be seen as great news by many hoping for streamlining in the Euro zone payments area however, does it ...
A New Dawn for the Banking Industry Begins Today
03/11/2009
Those that are regular readers of my blogs will recognise the news today that the government is splitting up the bailed out banks, which was always my preferred way of getting a return for the tax payer. Today marks the beginning of ...
The Corporate Tsunami is coming
02/11/2009
Anthony Hilton made a statement in his Evening Standard column that the world's corporates will be looking to refinance massively as the global economic crisis begins to subside. We are both on the same wave length, as I made the same Tsunami analogy at ...


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