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MiFID II: The Impact on Finance Sector Comms
MiFID II is a change to the regulations informing the finance sector’s conduct and aims to improve transparency and safety in the financial markets. That means that, by January 2018, affected finance businesses must be fully compliant, or face fines
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Lord Waverley on Sanctions: The United Kingdom Acts
The United Kingdom Government has introduced the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill to Parliament. Provisions for continuity of current sanctions arrangements post BREXIT have become necessary. Failure to do so would put the United Kingdom in breach of its international
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British Airways: Bring On the Competition
How to manage an apparent paradox – and make a profit while doing so. It is a challenge well suited to British Airways CEO Alex Cruz, the eminently likable Spaniard who transformed Vueling from a struggling low-cost carrier into a
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Lord Waverley: The Shackles That (Still) Bind International Trade
The ‘Problématique’ Notwithstanding the continued march of globalism, cross-border global trade remains plagued by multiple barriers. These impede economic development, particularly in emerging market (EM) economies, and for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). EMs account for over 85% of the
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Hans Peter Lankes, IFC: IFC’s Development Impact, One Market at a Time
Having worked in the international financial institutions for much of my career, I’m a big believer in the power that development institutions have in building a bridge between the government and the private sector. That philosophy underpins the International Finance
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Emmanuel Macron: Perfect Timing
The fate of the European Union may well rest on his shoulders. Front-runner in the French election campaign, Emmanuel Macron (39) is widely expected – but not guaranteed – to trash Marine Le Pen in the May 7 run-off for
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G20: Challenges in Shaping an Interconnected World
Expertly ducking a potentially traumatic Trump (hand)shake by shooting past the US president to his wife Melania, Polish first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda perhaps unwittingly set the tone for the annual G20 summit – showing Mr Trump his place in the
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Angela Merkel: Leader of the Free World
Playing nice gets results. Just ask Angela Merkel who became the undisputed leader of the free world after the US elevated a rather rude businessman to the presidency. Mrs Merkel’s phone manners are also much more effective. Instead of hanging
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UK: Casino Politics
In a triumph of cautious optimism over alarmist gloom, UK voters delivered Prime Minister Theresa May a comeuppance of sorts, depriving her of an outright majority in parliament and refusing to buy into Tory visions of strong and stable leadership
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Otaviano Canuto & Matheus Cavallari, World Bank: Bloated Central Bank Balance Sheets
Central banks of large advanced and many emerging market economies have recently gone through a period of extraordinary expansion of their balance sheets and are all now possibly facing a transition to less abnormal times. However, the fact that one
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