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.
Big hit for UK’s Standard Chatered Bank on Chinese business
Greensill Capital case damages the UK’s credit standing on the world stage
As published by IREF Online
Introduction
The UK government has cancelled its guarantees to a private lender – Greensill Capital – under the UK’s coronavirus support, without the obligation that was guaranteed having been discharged. This puts […]
Bank of England bond-buying disaster and the Treasury Select Committee
The TSC has finally started to nail the Bank of England
It has inexplicably fallen below the radar that the Treasury Select Committee on 22nd November finally succeeded in cornering the Bank of England about key […]
Treasury Select Committee and Quantitative Easing
The Treasury Select Committee on 22nd November finally succeeded in cornering the Bank of England about key features of their bond buying (Quantitative Easing) and selling (Quantitative Tightening).
The upshot is that further questioning, apart from […]
New task bolted on to European Stability Mechanism – with how much extra risk?
How the ESM now backstops the SRF
– First published by IREF Online –
Introduction
The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will now be backstop-of-last-resort to the Eurozone banking system, in addition to backstopping the Eurozone member states and […]
Eurozone unemployment – a testimony to the failure to create a genuinely harmonised economic zone
Daily Express headline
Eurozone unemployment is an average and disguises wide variations, with youth unemployment being unacceptably high in several Club Med countries.
That is the problem with making important policy decisions at several levels removed from […]
The Black Week for Fintech
Headline on Crown Agents
General Ludendorff described the British/Australian/Canadian breakthrough before Amiens on 8th August 1918 as ‘the black day of the German army in the World War’.
The week of 23rd October 2023 could be described […]
Europol highlights Virtual Accounts as source of Financial Crime risk
Europol’s 2023 report
Europol has issued its 2023 assessment of the risks of financial and economic crime.
It features Virtual Accounts and the unique identifier for them: Virtual IBANs or International Bank Account Numbers.
We have raised this […]
The dire state of creditworthiness in the Eurozone governments and banks
I had an interview with John Butler on the state of creditworthiness amongst Eurozone governments and banks – not good!
