Tuesday, February 28, 2017

28/2/17: Sentix Euro Breakup Contagion Risk Index Explodes

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Sentix Euro Break-up Contagion Index - a market measure of the contagion risk from one or more countries leaving the euro area within the ...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

25/2/17: Eurocoin February 2017: Another Acceleration in Growth

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A quick update on Eurocoin, the lead indicator for economic growth in the Euro area. In February, Eurocoin rose from 0.68 in January to 0....

24/2/17: Cybersecurity Threats: Business Survey

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An interesting insight via  https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-21/threat-of-cyber-attack-is-biggest-fear-for-businesses-s...
Friday, February 24, 2017

24/2/2017: Baltic Dry Index is Still in a Disaster Territory

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All of the discussions about the Baltic Dry Index - a proxy for global trade flows - in recent weeks was centred on the alleged recovery i...

24/2/17: Distributed ledger technology in payments, clearing, & settlement

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A new research paper from the U.S. Federal Reserve System, titled “ Distributed ledger technology in payments, clearing, and settlement ” ...

24/2/17: 2016 to 2017: Continuity of Risks

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My article for the Cayman Financial Review  covering the transition in strategic and systemic risks between 2016 and 2017 is available her...

24/2/17: Delays to second bailout cause spike in Greek risk

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Euromoney covering the Greek crisis (latest iteration) with a comment from myself:  http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3663144/Delays-to-sec...

24/2/17: Monetary Policy Outlook for 2017

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My article for Manning Financial  covering monetary policy outlook is out and can be viewed here:  https://issuu.com/publicationire/docs/m...

23/2/17: Welcome to the VUCA World

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Much has been said recently about the collapse of ‘risk gauges’ in the financial markets, especially on foot of the historically low readi...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

21/2/17: The Future of Finance

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Last week I was speaking at a forum on Open Societies in Panama City. My speech covered the key threats and transformational changes in ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

20/2/17: CESIfo on Potential Gains from EU-EEC Trade Agreement

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An interesting study from German's CESIfo on the potential impact of a Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the Eurasian Economic C...

20/2/17: The Effect of GFC on Italian Non-Performing Loans Overhang

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In yesterday’s post I covered some interesting current numbers relating to NPLs in the European banking sector. And sitting, subsequently,...