PTsb have been fairly honest in the way they have handled their loan book over the last two years, unpopular too, however it is importa...

Many critics of the Eurozone are sceptical because they have always raised the fact that countries cannot devalue their currency, think...

We got a phone call from 'Cortix' today, it was from a number starting with 0033 (France) and the lady said she was calling from 'C o r...

Last night the Eurozone leaders agreed with the IMF on a €750bn emergency funding package to help protect various sovereign bond market...

The Greeks have spent an extraordinary amount of time in their history in default. The nation has long preferred profligacy over auster...

I had an interesting conversation with Frank Pallotta of Loan Value Group in New Jersey earlier today. Loan Value Group is an organisat...

In the last twenty years there has been a huge increase within the financial services industry of 'anti-money laundering' and 'anti-ter...

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 ...

Why have a two handed economist when you can have two one handed economists? (my jokes deteriorate in quality by the day) Today ther...

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...

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