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• FCA fraud findings: a reminder of the danger of crypto

  The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s announcement this week that UK retail investors have lost £27m to FX and crypto scams will have won little more than passing attention from heavyweight capital markets players.

  • 23 May 2019

• Tesco: checking out

  The UK’s approach to regulating banks points in opposite directions, as Tesco Bank’s decision to exit the mortgage market shows. But this will not matter to the customers it is supposed to benefit.

  • 23 May 2019

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The FIG Idea

• The FIG idea: sci-fi horror meets utopian dream

  As Marcella climbed into the transport pod for her short journey home to her cosy apartment in the Chongqing suburbs, her wristwatch buzzed, reminding her that this would be her last ever commute. She leaned back and thought of the days when she started out in banking, in 2007, right at the start of GFC1, the first Global Financial Crisis. In her 43 year career, how the world had changed.

  • 13 Mar 2019

• The FIG Idea: the wizardry of banking

  Do we marvel enough at the philosophical and metaphysical nature of the banking industry?

  • 17 May 2018

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