Is there any end to the growth of government financial regulation? What good does it do? Does the endless quest … Continue reading “Let’s end the government monopoly of regulation”

Despite the fact that there is little evidence for this proposition, it is widely held that deregulation of financial markets … Continue reading “Must financial regulation always come from the state?”

The EU’s second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) came into force earlier this month. According to the European … Continue reading “Statutory regulation vs private regulation”

There is no shortage of debate within Catholic social teaching about the extent to which markets should be regulated by … Continue reading “Catholic social teaching should confront the regulatory state”

This is an election where the likely outcome is “no change”. There will be no change to the government in … Continue reading “Over-regulation risks killing financial innovation at birth”

On 12 May, Together for the Common Good hosted a debate between Prof Philip Booth and Maurice Glasman at St. … Continue reading “Finance and the common good”

The Institute for International Finance has just released an interesting briefing paper on the trends in risk-weighted assets (RWA) among … Continue reading “Basel, RWA and rules of thumb in risk management”

The City is split when it comes to Brexit. Certainly, the larger City institutions with significant EU business tend to … Continue reading “Costly EU regulation has not made financial services safer or better – but Brexit is no silver bullet”

Benjamin Wrench recently wrote a paper titled Risk and Reward: why the EU separates risk from reward and what this means … Continue reading “Brussels or London – which is the lesser of two evils?”