Study Group: Fund Services Experts(?)

The idea of regulation for ratings agencies can appear a seductive panacea but it is riddled with dangerous implications...

MF Global is one of the key players in the global exchange traded derivatives (ETD) brokerage industry with the power to make and potentially, to break, markets, leading to some fascinating -and very significant- political dynamics within the industry. MF Global has been stung by recent activity on...

Amazon is attempting to own the book business by exercising control of the small fast growing independent end of the market. Ultimately having done much good for book buyers and helped publishers, Amazon is now in danger of squeezing the small houses they have helped encourage. Book publishing is in...

Ultimately all markets go in cycles. The concept that property, to name but one sector, would forever go up, was a delusion of the Florida land grab of the 1920s and umpteen other times in history, not just the very recent past... Sadly in the modern age, the analysis remains that even with new-fangled...

Inter-dealer broker revenue is vulnerable to the quantity of dealers that are available.  Lower valuation of book value of investment banks as a result of the Bear Stearns acquisition by JP Morgan may increase consolidation among primary dealers of OTC derivatives. This will result in lower...