LONDON | Ultimately, the US platform’s move props up the British capital’s Square Mile as a global European financial hub: CME Group, a leading derivatives marketplace, announced Monday it is in the process of applying to the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority to create a London-based derivatives exchange. CME’s executive chairman Terry Duffy explained that already 20 percent [...]
Barclays and the European free markets: the enemy within
LONDON | Whether it is electoral incentives or sincere concern what compelled the UK government to call for supervision from outside the banking sector, free market advocates must have felt an acute sense of betrayal. On Tuesday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne no only reminded the City that the British Bankers Association members [...]
What the City of London reads is the Telegraph, not the FT!
A shocking fact, from the revolving door here at thecorner.eu via Spain’s business paper Expansión, and a worth-noting point for readers tired of stereotypes: former Financial Times correspondent in Madrid Tom Burns has news for the pink’un-obsessed continental Europeans. What’s the dead-tree media brand of preference in the City of London? Not that one. Burns says [...]
Barclays’ subsidiary to clean balance sheet in tune with Spanish reform
By Julia Pastor, in Madrid | The British prime minister David Cameron may perform his isolationist act as theatrically as he likes, but facts are stubborn showing that the British banking sector very much prefers to take advantage of the European Central Bank help when available. Barclays, one of the British banking sector’s heavyweights, has [...]
London-Madrid …Valencia?
LONDON | Spanish president Mariano Rajoy stepped on to Downing Street but talked instead to the City of London. It will not be the last time that this happens. The shift in the UK’s relationship with most European Union country members should be a troubling sign of the declining power Whitehall and the Houses of [...]
