Showing posts with label bank reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bank reform. Show all posts
Monday, 30 November 2015

Better Services For SMEs: Follow The Data

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I was at a 'parliamentary roundtable' on Tuesday on the perennial topic of small business banking reform. A more official report ...
Monday, 5 October 2015

Building Societies Abandon The Lending Code

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A new version of the Lending Code has been released, simply omitting the name of the Building Societies Association which has ceased spo...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

This Is Not The Time To Let Bank Management Off The Hook

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The CEO of UBS yesterday joined other wolves in sheeps clothing big bank leaders in calling for freedom to make 'honest mistakes...
Sunday, 3 May 2015

Banks Make A Mockery Of Their Self-regulatory #LendingCode

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Readers may still be surprised to hear that Britain's retail banks remain self-regulated when it comes to their lending activities. ...
Thursday, 28 August 2014

Why Bankers Make Poor Managers

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If UK banks ran our restaurants, we'd all be spending a lot more time in our smallest rooms. In the latest example, the Financial...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014

HSBC Still Doesn't Get It

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You would not expect a conglomerate under heavy regulatory fire to use its latest results announcement to campaign against regulation . B...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Want Virtuous Banking? Start By Splitting Banks Into More Than Two Pieces

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Yesterday I was engaged in a discussion about 'virtuous banking' which seemed to stick on the definition of 'banks' and ...
Friday, 20 December 2013

2013: Levelling The Financial Playing Field

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Six years of financial crisis have finally produced some of the legal changes that will expose the cosy world of regulated financial serv...