LSE blog: Ten years from the crash: Time to row back on financial regulation and compliance?
Geoff Meeks, Emeritus Professor of Financial Accounting at Cambridge Judge Business School, co-authored a blog about financial regulation to coincide with the imminent tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. “Misconduct flourishes in good times, and that's when it's…
Alternative finance
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will deliver a keynote speech via live video link on digital transformation and financial inclusion in her capacity as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA) at the annual…
Citi EMEA director on finance career expectations
Cambridge Judge Business School alumna Irina Kim talks about corporate banking, career boosting and the current financial job market. Irina Kim, the London-based Regional Relationship Director for Citigroup Europe, Middle East and Africa, was a member of the Cambridge Judge's…
Six reasons why … good bankers will always turn bad
They want to be good, they promise to be good, but will they be good? Cambridge Judge Business School faculty Professor Raghavendra Rau, Dr Bang Dang Nguyen and Dr Pedro Saffi explore six reasons why, whether it's retail or investment,…
Time is running out for the euro
A leading Cambridge economist predicts the death of the euro despite the efforts of policy makers who are papering over cracks and trapping very different countries with tight fiscal rules when they should have a looser monetary policy. Michael Kitson,…
Bonus cap for euro bankers is a step forward
The European Union's move to cap bonuses at the region's largest financial institutions has been hailed as a step in the right direction but does not go far enough. Financial sector observer Dr Bang Dang Nguyen, University Lecturer in Finance…
John Griffith-Jones, KMPG EMA: A risk too far?
As Head of KPMG's Europe Middle East and Africa Region, John Griffith-Jones is in charge of 105 countries. He says governments need to regulate to guard against bad practice, and that risk management modelling won't solve all of those tricky…
Senator Yves Leterme, Belgium: Is neoliberalism doomed?
Senator Yves Leterme, Former Prime Minister of Belgium, compares the Anglo-Saxon and the Rhineland models of socio-economic development. The current economic crisis he believes has stemmed from an over purification of neo-liberalism, which saw many economies move from over-regulation, to…
Dr Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com: Healthy capital market equals healthy nation
Dr Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, explains the concept of "naked shorting", and how he predicted as early as three years ago that the corruption of the regulator of the US capital market would lead to the systemic collapse we…
The devil’s in the details: regulating financial innovation
With elections in India in a few months, the war on terror must be squarely at the centre of the political agenda. Not far away will be regulation of finance. As Sonia Gandhi put it, the poor had nothing to…
