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.
Seven Freebies from the Bank of England to their new best buddies – Labour – and one frustration
Rt Hon Rachel Reeves’ CV may have been correct after all, or at least some of it
Header of Rachel Reeves’ CV on LinkedIn
Introduction
Rachel Reeves’ CV on LinkedIn may have been correct after all in claiming that she was an economist at Bank of Scotland and not head of paperclips at the […]
Private Finance Initiative – the New Labour financial catastrophe
The key documents on the financial catastrophe visited upon the UK – and continuing to be visited upon the UK every day – by New Labour.
Private Finance Initiative – PFI – was a ‘structured finance’ […]
Budget disaster for ‘working people’, who won’t be working for much longer
This article as published by the Daily Express
Labour’s first Budget will be a catastrophe for employed jobs, especially for Minimum Wage jobs. Rachel Reeves has greatly increased the cost to businesses of having employees. Angela […]
We had a Labour economic government for 14 years – called the Bank of England
You were warned…but Labour is nothing is except the Sunak/Hunt combination on steroids
I have drafted a paper about the Conservatives’ years in power, during which the Bank of England exploited its independence and widened the […]
TOTAL [POLITICAL] FOOTBALL – LABOUR’S INTEGRATED SCHEME FOR THE UK’S PENSIONERS
More money is needed and pensioners – or old codgers as a senior HM Treasury adviser calls them – cost too much and are in the way.
Solution? Accelerate pensioner deaths through a scheme of public […]
Massive borrow-and-spend splurge under Labour takes shape
Report on Labour Plans May 2024
Rachel Reeves wants to take Great British Energy and the NationalWealthFund ‘off-balance sheet’ to massage the UK’s national debt figures.
What this means was written up on pp. 10-13 of this […]
Enquiries needed into the treatment of rioters and the narrative put up by the authorities during the August 2024 UK riots
Introduction
Friends around the world must wonder if the UK has lost its mind, what with the Southport murders, the ensuing riots, the false predictions of 100+ ‘far Right’ protests on August 7th, the subsequent mass […]
Full callable capital of the European Stability Mechanism by credit rating level
This chart supplements the IREF article published on 24th July 2024 entitled ‘There is no European Financial Safety Net, and therefore no Global Financial Safety Net’:
https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/there-is-no-european-financial-safety-net-and-therefore-no-global-financial-safety-net/Bonds issued by the European Stability Mechanism have to be […]
