Rebooting UK capital markets

The future of UK banking and finance and the rebooting of domestic capital markets will enable the industry to better support the UK economy.

October 2014

Thinking allowed: a selection of the best recent academic papers

A selection of recent academic papers and research that we have read, sifted and translated so that you don't have to.

July 2014

The addiction to high costs that is killing investment banks

The investment banking industry has lots of problems, but few of them are as intractable as its problem with costs.

June 2014

FICC is dead. Long live FICC?

An analysis of the slow decline of the fixed income business.

September 2014

Driving growth: the case for bigger and better capital markets

Making the case for bigger and better capital markets in Europe

July 2014

Market failure? The two different faces of the IPO market

An emphasis of the importance of the IPO as a mechanism for capital raising and encouraging the shift away from bank financing.

June 2014

Winning the debate on bankerspay and bonuses

Until banks start making a more positive case for the value of what they do, they will struggle to defuse – let alone win – the argument.

August 2014

The myth of Sisyphus and the reality of never-ending banking reform

Senior bankers may recall that the story of Sisyphus doesn’t end well. In fact, it doesn’t end at all.

June 2014

Why is the financial industry so inefficient?

A summary of Thomas Philippon's paper 'On the Theory and Measurement of Financial Intermediation'

June 2014

It's not too late for asset managers to make a difference

A summary of a speech given by by Robert Jenkins to the New York Society of Security Analysts on 1 May 2014.