Pragmatist

Looking back over the posts on these pages over the past few years (and my Twitter feed !), readers may wonder if I've focused on anythi...

Perhaps it's not what the European Commission intended, but its green paper on retail financial services is a great explanation of w...

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...

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

Good to see the short sellers doing the regulators' work for them again - not that the authorities like it.  Last week, Spain...

I'm a great fan of trade bodies that introduce necessary self-regulation and create an efficient bridge between industry and official...

It's not every day you get to brainstorm ways to bring diversity and sustainability to Britain's ailing financial system amidst ...

The news that Kickstarter, a US rewards-based crowdfunding operator, has opened a dedicated UK platform is hugely encouraging for anyone...

Last year I cheekily suggested we should allow financial regulators to short-sell the stocks of companies that are subject to the slow g...

As Nietzsche said (I always wanted to begin a post that way), "That which does not kill us only makes us stronger."  Or as my f...

By now we've witnessed the disasters that resulted from a lack of critical thought amongst auditors , ratings agencies , the Federal ...