London Banker

In the old days when banks were local, and owned either as partnerships or mutuals, bankers had a stake in promoting the prosperity of their...

I have had to deal with the idiocy of modern financial regulation rather more than I would like lately. The issue involves FSA regulations ...

It seems that central bankers and politicians are endlessly resourceful when it comes to innovating ways to profit themselves and bankers at...

Regardless of what the IIF and the Greek government may announce, Greece is heading inevitably for a destabilising default to some or all of...

It's time to write again about insolvency, as the MF Global failure and the Greek debacle raise new troubling concerns. As I wrote in ...

First, hat tip to Barry Ritholtz for the articles linked here. I read two of the articles, written on opposite sides of the planet, one af...

Financial Stability became a topic in the late 1990s, at a time of peak laxity in international financial supervision. The same minds which...