Posts Tagged ‘ lending ’

Confused messages and idiot policies damaging economy

Finance Week, 13/01/2009 The latest interest rate cut is unlikely to help British business until people who work in offices actually do their jobs properly. While everyone closely watches Gordon Brown’s bizarre decisions, too many businesses allow idiots to stay in charge. Doing nothing at work is not a solution in this environment. Gerry...

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Lehman’s fallout on UK business

Finance Week, 15/09/2008 As Lehman’s affair drags global equity markets south and global banks find $70 billion for a bail-out fund, what are the ramifications for UK business? Gerry O’Kane takes a look. The rent-a-quote members of the City of London were remarkably quite on Monday following the news that Lehman Brothers had filed...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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