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Sants or Sinner at the FSA? 18/9/10
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......
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Redundancy delays growth
30/01/2009 It was inevitable that as the world dives into recession and profits disappear
into history that the reaction of the majority of companies would be to cut costs and make employees redundant. The cost of
redundancy should never be measured by the immediate balance sheet impact but should also take in...
Voice Recognition and card security
29/01/2009 At this weeks Purchasing Card Forum, Nick Ogden, founder of WorldPay and currently chairman and CEO of
Voice
Commerce Group presented the use of voice recognition as the next big thing in security. He
outlined that so far the methods used for card security have all been found....
Tesco's beginning to look
bank like
28/01/2009 I have written on
the topic of high street stores entering banking before but it's now looking certain that Tesco will be the first to go
the whole hog. The Chief Executive Sir Terry Leahy appears to be on a mission to utilise the many assets of Tesco and notably
their Clubcard with all its client d...
I.T. Boom will follow Crisis
26/01/2009 Its normal practice for financial services firms to immediately cut
costs and budgets when a financial crisis hits. In my time working in banking I can remember on many occasions when some form
of crisis appeared that the first reaction was to freeze expenditure, the next was to cut costs the third ...
Breaking
up the Banks
21/01/2009 Each day we hear of another bank deep in a hole of its own making.
The billions and eventually trillions of tax payer's money pitched into banks is taking some time to take effect
and get the business moving again.
More Regulation or Better Regulation?
16/01/09 At this week’s Securities & Investment Institute debate in London’s
Mansion House some eminent speakers in front of an expert audience debated “In this current financial environment,
more financial regulation is a major part of the solution”......
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