Lyddon Consulting
Lyddon Consulting is the trading-as identity of Bob Lyddon, a specialist consultant in international banking. Up until March 2022 the business was run through a limited liability company. Bob’s focus is Payments and Cash Management. That leads on to market change aspects such as the Euro, Single Euro Payments Area, FinTechs, ISO20022 XML and new payment mechanisms.
It also leads into the regulatory domain and measures such as Payment Services Directive, Anti-Money Laundering Directives, and regulations around cards, mobile, eMoney and mandatory information in funds transfers.
At Lyddon Consulting you will find find both methodologies and training packages to meet your needs and support your change programmes.
‘Borrowing for investment’ – all the signs point to a debt-funded disaster
Labour’s ‘Borrowing for investment’ – think New Labour’s ‘Private Finance Initiative’ and InvestEU
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Published on 28th May 2025
This is the full version of the third paper in my Global Britain series on the UK’s public finances, entitled ‘‘Borrowing for investment’ – what is meant […]
The UK government’s day-to-costs are out of control, and no Spending Review is going to get them back on target
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Published on 28th May 2025
This is the full version of the second paper in my Global Britain series on the UK’s public finances, entitled ‘The UK government’s budget for ‘day-to-day’ costs […]
Starmer and Reeves want to spend and borrow more, and to keep the increase in both under wraps
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Published on 28th May 2025
This is the full version of the first paper in my Global Britain series on the UK’s public finances, entitled ‘The structure of the UK’s public finances […]
Labour’s ‘Borrowing for investment’ is the Net Zero transition in disguise – and could cost the UK nearly £7 trillion
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Published on 27th May 2025
LABOUR’S ‘borrowing for investment’ will part-finance the Net Zero transition in a repeat of New Labour’s Private Finance Initiative and the EU’s InvestEU, and cost the UK […]
‘Borrowing for investment’ – how Labour will go big by aping the EU’s InvestEU and creating more PFI
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Published on 27th May 2025
LABOUR’S new ‘iron’ fiscal rules will open the floodgates to ‘borrowing for investment’, under the Government’s new measure of the national debt, called ‘Public sector net liabilities’.
That […]
The structure of the UK’s public finances is obscure – and that helps Starmer and Reeves hide their increases in public spending and the national debt
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Published on 27th May 2025
The UK’s debt is already nearly the same size as the whole UK economy and is continuing to increase. The Labour Government’s plan to introduce a […]
The UK government’s ‘day-to-day’ costs are out-of-control
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Why there is no chance of spending being covered by revenue by 2029 in compliance with Labour’s ‘iron’ fiscal rule
Published on 27th May 2025
Labour has lost control of the UK’s […]
The UK public finances
ONS – you can read the public detail on our disastrous situation, but for what is not in the public domain…
Published on 21st May 2025
Here are four papers on the UK’s public finances being issued […]
