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Eurozone unemployment – a testimony to the failure to create a genuinely harmonised economic zone

Daily Express headline

Published on 27th November 2023

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 economic units whose characteristics widely diverge.

The fact that this is the situation is a testament to […]

The Black Week for Fintech

Headline on Crown Agents

Published on 26th November 2023

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 as the black week for Fintech.

CAB Payments – the former payments division of Crown Agents Bank […]

Europol highlights Virtual Accounts as source of Financial Crime risk

Europol’s 2023 report

Published on 12th September 2023

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 issue to the trade body for the sector most actively using Virtual IBANs – Project Financial […]

The dire state of creditworthiness in the Eurozone governments and banks

Published on 12th September 2023

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

Blog published on 11th September 2023

Article as published in the Daily Express on 31 August 2023

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 “incoherent financial vandalism”.

Bob Lyddon also believes the situation is being exacerbated by members of […]

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

Shanghai financial centre

Blog published on 11th September 2023.

Article as published on 16th August 2023 in the Daily Express.

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 Lyddon was speaking after the UK stock market slumped yesterday as a result of […]

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

The AML gospel according to St JMLSG

Blog published on 8th September 2023.

The content was first published by Global Britain – ‘Jeremy Hunt should be aware – the Financial Conduct Authority has ‘form’ in supporting de-banking’

Things have moved quickly since the breaking of the scandal over the de-banking of Nigel Farage. Dame Alison Rose, CEO of […]

Don’t kill cash

Published on 8th September 2023

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

My book, upon which all is based

Published on 7th September 2023

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 me a series of follow up questions, and here are the answers in English.

Here is a […]

De-banking – interview on ‘Farage’ on GBNews

Published on 7th September 2023

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 de-banked and why. The interview begins at Minute 9:

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