Pragmatist

At least 17 years too late, the Bank for International Settlements (the central bank for central banks) has become very concerned about t...

A pragmatic approach to the Brexit debate is to ask whether withdrawal from the European Union would solve enough root causes of Brit...

I'm indebted to my colleagues in the Isle of Man for pointing me to the IoM's recent Designated Businesses (Registration and Over...

The Competition and Markets Authority has been investigating the state of competition for personal and small business bank customers, and...

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

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

If you've been lumped with the job of writing your party's General Election Manifesto, here are 8 financial policies to simply dr...

Having spent the past seven years banging on about the changes needed to democratise the financial system, it's only fitting that m...

The government has announced bad debt relief for lending through P2P platforms; a consultation on whether to extend ISA eligibility to c...

The Financial Conduct Authority is going to great lengths to deepen its understanding of the retail financial services market. Project In...

The Establishment has finally woken up to the reality of virtual currencies, but official responses are all over the place. Let's hop...

The Society for Computers and Law was recently entertained on the topic of trust in Big Data and the Cloud , by Paul Nemitz, European Com...

The departure of Lloyds Banking Group chairman, Sir Win Bischoff, provides another reminder that nothing much has changed in UK banking. ...

Odd that Will Hutton should claim in The Observer, of all places, that making the purchase of pension annuities optional will end in l...

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

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

An odd article on page 20 of today's FT suggests that the failure of some ventures to raise money somehow puts 'crowdfunding...

The UK government has been running its own Red Tape Challenge for some years and at last the EU is getting in on the act (though it thi...

What a difference a year makes. At an industry event yesterday none other than Nicola Horlick , a well-known fund manager, confirmed her...