Behavioral Economics & Arrears – avoid repossession by reward I had an interesting conversation with Frank Pallotta of Loan Value Group in New Jersey earlier today. Loan Value Group is an organisat... Continue reading
Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Regulation: Consistently Achieving Nothing In the last twenty years there has been a huge increase within the financial services industry of 'anti-money laundering' and 'anti-ter... Continue reading
Central Bank Reform Bill 2010 We all want 'tough regulation', I would argue it doesn't need to be tougher, rather it needs to be more pragmatic and enforced, and of ... Continue reading
McWilliams vs Murgatroyd Why have a two handed economist when you can have two one handed economists? (my jokes deteriorate in quality by the day) Today ther... Continue reading
Banks have a message for you, ‘Get off my loan book!’ We have been saying for quite some time that banks would start to find ways to induce people away from their loan book. The first menti... Continue reading
Can a bank take back my tracker mortgage? There has been some talk of this lately, and it is an issue that we have raised concerns on in the past - to get the good news out earl... Continue reading
Negative Equity Financing I was on the panel on Frontline recently and during it I mentioned a thing called 'Negative Equity Financing', we were asked by a few j... Continue reading
A developers side of the story. I had an interesting conversation with a developer yesterday who's company is closing, they would have been a mid-range development com... Continue reading
Why are there not more libertarians? On topics like Foreign Policy, Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Abortion. There is large diversity of thought amongst the panel who all f... Continue reading