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Regional regulation is anti-globalisation
September 24, 2012Increasingly strict, region-specific regulation is making it increasingly complex, not to mention costly, for transaction bankers to operate on a global scale.
The self-inflicted weight of financial regulation risks crushing New York's star status
August 27, 2012New York's Department for Financial Services' recent intervention in Standard Chartered's affairs in Iran were intended to show the city's might as a financial centre. However, this action may well have the opposite effect to that which was desired, and play directly into China's hands.
Spain shows the cost of postponing pain
July 2, 2012Allowing crippled banks to fudge their loan losses is not the way to deliver a healthy banking market.
Eurozone crisis: a case of failure by design
May 28, 2012A critical design flaw in the euro project meant that problems were inevitable.
Ethanol shakes up the energy mix
May 28, 2012With oil prices rising ever higher, interest in ethanol as a green fuel is growing, with the world's largest economies – Brazil, China and the US – already involved in production.
Argentina takes another backwards step
April 23, 2012Latin America seems to have finally freed itself from its failing patterns of populism with impressive economic results, but Venezuela and, more evidently, Argentina remain reluctant to play ball.
Missed opportunity at the World Bank
April 23, 2012The appointment of a US academic to head the world Bank instead of Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala shows how out of touch the institution is.
Shedding light on shadow banking
March 26, 2012The rise of non-bank intermediaries in Europe is an opportunity, not a threat