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Posted on February 7th, 2012
The risk of another global recession and a renewed banking crisis is high, according to a new survey of the dangers currently facing the world’s banking industry. The CSFI’s annual Banking Banana Skins survey, produced in association with PwC, puts macro-economic risk at the top of the list of 30 possible risks [...] Posted on November 28th, 2011
Experts on banking, writing for the CSFI’s new publication “Views on Vickers”, are – by a whisker – in favour of the proposals, or think they should have gone further. But there is a near equally strong contingent that believes either that the Independent Commission on Banking misses the main problems or that [...] Posted on October 23rd, 2011
Charles Taylor argues that financial systems are textbook examples of systems that change and develop according to the (relatively simple) rules of evolution – be it Darwinian (random mutation and survival of the fittest) or Lamarkian (the inheritance of acquired characteristics). Looking at financial systems in this way, regulators can draw important conclusions [...] Posted on June 16th, 2011
Since corporate access lacks “original content”, it falls outside the definition of research in regulation designed to unbundle payments for research from trading fees, according to Vince Heaney, author of the report published by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation. He found that that the Financial Services Authority was aware that [...] Posted on June 13th, 2011
A breakdown of the insurance industry by sector shows the life side specifically concerned about the impact of low interest rates on investment performance, and the task of managing complex and competitive retail distribution networks. On the non-life side, the main concerns are with excess capacity and competitive pricing, along with the impact [...] 3 pages
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