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Roy McPherson

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Europe - Does it get worse?

This story just will not go away, Portugal, Greece, Ireland - a throw of the dice and millions more pumped into a black hole whilst our fine friends in Brussels are in denial and want to increase their budgets and spending right across the board. I know what my message would be. On the 6th May I blogged https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.a...

16 November 2010

Makes my blood boil

Whilst reading my regular daily newspaper I read some articles that made my blood boil, I could feel the blood pressure rising as I gnashed my teeth. Carlisle Castle is 900 years old, give or take a year. It has, like all functional defences of the day, a sloping grass bank leading into a grassy former moat. Now the Chief Imbecile at Health and Saf...

24 August 2010

Hand over your money....

Very funny, you have to admire their cheek. Do you think after the 4th visit he asked for a freebie?

13 August 2010

Bereavement

I’m very saddened to advise this community that Barry Holland passed away in hospital yesterday. We became good friends when he was the head of FX Ops at Barclays Capital and we shared more than a few escapades. He was a good man, a doting grandfather, a Chelsea supporter and part time member of the Barmy Army. He is already sadly missed.

05 August 2010

Cash and Liquidity Management obstacles.

In 2008 the great and the good of the banking world were attending SIBOS Vienna with no more thought than for any previous SIBOS or banking trade show. Even as delegates were checking into the conference on the Monday morning shockwaves were sent throughout the assembled bankers as news of Lehman’s and the fall out of the toxic loans hit the news

29 June 2010 /regulation /sibos Finextra@Sibos

Charlie Croker

Seeing this story of the ham fisted attempt by thiefs in Germany who blew up a bank to get at an ATM, which survived, made me think of John Shepherd-Barron, the ATM inventor who passed away last week. I wonder if he's sitting on a cloud somewhere as amused as me? My first thoughts though, and probably that of every Brit who revelled in the 1969 fi...

26 May 2010 /security /regulation

Profligate or duty bound?

This week, and for many weeks, George Osborne will be taking steps to rein in unnecessary expenditure, halt future white elephant projects and seek ways to reduce the Brown/Blair legacy of £157 bn pounds deficit. The newspapers are talking up the prospect of cuts to the tune of £6bn a mere 3.82% of the overall sum. The previous Government should b...

24 May 2010 /payments /regulation

Greece; a slippery slope getting slippier

On the 6th May I blogged https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=4044 to say that I thought Greece could signal a bail out of the Euro and the more I read the more I think this will happen. Angela Mekel has seen the warning signs and believes the ban on short selling will stem the flow. Unfortunately this is the financial equivalent o...

21 May 2010 /regulation

Greece - A slippery slope?

Never mind 'beware Greeks bearing gifts' how about 'beware Greece setting off a chain reaction'? It's been the unthinkable but in the great land of WhatIf, what if Greece set off a chain of events to be followed by Italy, Spain and Portugal (never mind the UK). What if the burden on the German tax payer became so great that they said, no more. Wha...

06 May 2010 /payments /regulation

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