Pragmatist

I guess it started out as a reasonable idea - provide card customers with comfort that someone else will help if your credit card is stolen ...

It's okay folks. The Bribery Nothing-wrong-with-the-odd-backhander Act 2010 will limp into effect on 1 July , rather than convert Twic...

Auditors, and others interested in the nature of scepticism ( feel the irony) will have been interested in recent FT coverage of stock ma...

Interesting post from Robert Peston , yesterday, concerning financial sunlight and despotic dollars (hat tip to nobby-Lobby ). He concludes...

I've been fascinated recently by the dearth of critical thought in the financial community. I still haven't found the time to rea...

Pensions are underwater It will be fascinating to see if we get real transparency and competition in pension provision, now that the vast...

This evening I caught the SCL 's Annual Lecture. This year it was expertly delivered by Dr Mike Lynch OBE on the "Advent of Meanin...

The long overdue move to regulate consumer credit the same way as other financial services has finally been announced . I've been advis...

Barclays' withdrawal from the asset-based small business lending market is a real shot in the arm for peer-to-peer finance. The head o...

Today, Lloyds Banking Group announced a provision of £500m in payments to 600,000 Halifax mortgage borrowers who may have been confused ove...

The Treasury reports that it received no support for its proposal for voluntary consumer protection codes for ‘closed loop’ or limited netw...

Good to see Michael O'Higgins , the new Chair of the UK Pensions Regulator making a splash in his first interview. He's quoted in Tu...

Perhaps the most telling aspect of the battle for electoral reform is that the leading ' Yes ' campaigners share great comic wit an...

I spent Monday partly examining the practicalities of treating time as a currency at BarCampBank4 . In essence, ' time banks ' for...

Few people are aware that when you pay using a credit or debit card, your 'issuing' bank charges the retailer's 'acquiring...

I've kept a beady eye on the ' progress ' of the Commission on Banking , while holding out little hope that it will result in mo...

The law's very own Black Swan , 1928 Rather than communing with my laptop, tonight I had the pleasure of discussing the challenges of...

Yet another tip of the hat to Gillian Tett for her article on " Metaphors, Models and Theories " by Emanuel Derman , author of...

As the ebbing economic tide exposes more and more fraud, it's striking to see how long the authorities have been aware of some problems ...

Hat-tip to Glen Davis , insolvency and financial services barrister par excellence, for pointing out Dr Philiipp Esser's piece on "...