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I attended a Hindu wedding in New Delhi last week. Met a banker from Dubai and asked about real-estate. He said: leveraged, and massively. Leverage was the key word and I saw it. We are slaves of leve...
I read an interesting post here yesterday (or was it the day before?) about "forcing banks to lend" and am curious to see if anyone has a similar feeling to myself. As we all know, any well ...
New buzz words in the street since the rescue of Citi in US, RBS in UK and UBS in Switzerland involve Darwinian processes, dinosaurs and other apocalyptic analogies. One may ask, are the world largest...
Notwithstanding the complete ar*e the banks have made, at the macro level, of the world's finances, most bankers at branch level can probably still be relied upon to make sensible decisions about lend...
Make no mistake about it, UK will recover first. There is after all only a dozen banks for the government to keep afloat, the giant insurance and re-insurance companies that will suffer from the dele
The recent turbulent events are clearly set to have long-lasting consequences on the global economy. But is there something we can all learn from past financial crises to determine if there is a tried...
I am looking forward to the UK government disposing of its bank holdings at the right time and paying off the national debt. However the root of recession lies not in the poor credit practices that ha...
As a committed operational risk professional, I cannot help but stare in amazement amidst all the financial ruin and desolation that surrounds us. The hand wringing and the weeping about credit risk, ...
At the FIMA conference this week in London, where I was speaking and chairing an afternoon session, the issue of Data Integration was debated, pulled apart and assessed by a whole range of expert peop...
Every professional with the vision of mobilizing money has been focused on mobile financial services for years. It abvious that plastic cards and mobile handsets are going to converge by the deliver o...
One hopes that vetting procedures for accessing Swift's secure SwiftNet network are much stricter than those for its online community forums at swiftcommunity.net. It seems that a Nigerian 419 fraudst...
What is likely to happen at the November 15th G20 meeting and why? Although it was not Nicolas Sarkozy but a group of 11 Commonwealth countries who floated the idea in June 2008, the French President ...