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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.

Europol highlights Virtual Accounts as source of Financial Crime risk

September 12th, 2023|Comments Off on 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

September 12th, 2023|Comments Off on 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!

Eurozone dream in tatters as ‘financial vandalism’ threatens EU stability

September 11th, 2023|Comments Off on Eurozone dream in tatters as ‘financial vandalism’ threatens EU stability

With the Eurozone’s money supply shrinking for the first time since 2010, a banking expert has said Europe’s economy has been damaged by what he called […]

Spillover potential for the UK from rout in the China property market

September 11th, 2023|Comments Off on Spillover potential for the UK from rout in the China property market

Shanghai financial centre

China’s potential economic meltdown, with its £2.4trillion banking system under threat, has “definite spillover potential” for the UK, a banking expert has warned.

Consultant Bob […]

Don’t hold your breath for the FCA to stop de-banking

September 8th, 2023|Comments Off on Don’t hold your breath for the FCA to stop de-banking

The AML gospel according to St JMLSG

Things have moved quickly since the breaking of the […]

Don’t kill cash

September 8th, 2023|Comments Off on Don’t kill cash

I spoke briefly on Liam Halligan’s show on GBNews about their ‘Don’t kill cash’ campaign:

https://x.com/gbnews/status/1690990780767166465?s=46&t=UN7HZkpr9JYSbWdGfk-dXA

Cross-examination by contrepoints.org of my presentation in Aix-en-Provence about the European Stability Mechanism

September 7th, 2023|Comments Off on Cross-examination by contrepoints.org of my presentation in Aix-en-Provence about the European Stability Mechanism

My book, upon which all is based

After my presentation at the IES-IREF Summer School in Aix-en-Provence about the European Stability Mechanism and its dependency on France’s retaining its AA-rating, the French business website contrepoints.org asked […]

De-banking – interview on ‘Farage’ on GBNews

September 7th, 2023|Comments Off on De-banking – interview on ‘Farage’ on GBNews

I appeared on Nigel Farage’s show on GBNews on Wednesday 9th August 2023 on the subject of de-banking and the FCA’s letter to 30 or so institutions asking them to lay out who they had […]

Euro is like Bitcoin, substantially without backing

September 6th, 2023|Comments Off on Euro is like Bitcoin, substantially without backing

Collapsing Euro is riskier than ‘gambling on Bitcoin’

The Express reinforced my Comment piece themselves the following day:https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1800197/collapsing-euro-bitcoin-gambling-debtA leading economist has warned that the Euro is only being sustained because the credit rating agencies have not downgraded Germany yet.

Writing for Express.co.uk Bob […]