The issue of the British Railway system has taken up a few posts here in Financial Regulation Matters, with the majority being concerned with developments with the HS2 project. However, in relation to yesterday’s poston the concept of ‘capture’, this post will examine a suite of potential reforms that are…

Here in Financial Regulation Matters we have covered the concept of ‘capture’ from a number of different angles, including the audit,banking, and tobaccoindustries through to the concept of ‘public private partnerships’. Additionally, we have also looked at issues relating to money laundering, and economic crime more generally. It is for…

The National Trust, the UK and Europe’s largest conservation-based Charity, has this month declared that it will be divesting from all of its fossil fuel investment positions. Even though the investing in these positions is an important part of the Trust’s investment strategy, it has decided that the Oil, Gas…

Environmental issues and big business are, in the current climate, moving towards a point where they are one and the same. However, there is still some way to go and there needs to be a number of developments in order to move towards a greener role for business. We have…

We have covered the automotive industry on a number of occasions here in Financial Regulation Matters, ranging from posts on emissions-related scandals and issues with the leadership of some of the industry’s largest companies (via Oluwarotimi Adeniyi-Akintola) to the increased focus on the electrification of the industry. …

The business press has been awash with articles concerning the fallen investment star Neil Woodford, who suspended withdrawals from his Equity Income Fund on Monday. As part of these reports, a number of issues have been raised ranging from the protection afforded by the regulator — The Financial Conduct Authority…

Today’s post discusses the recent, and very much expected move of the European Banking Authority from London to Paris. Very much in response to Brexit, the EBA now sits at the junction of a new phase in its development in terms of forming a central component of a new direction…

With the Credit Rating Agencies being the exclusive research concern of this author, it is unsurprising that they, as an industry, have featured heavily here in Financial Regulation Matters. As such, we tend to keep abreast of developments within this industry as well as other key financial areas, and in…

We discussed recently here in Financial Regulation Matters that Edward Bramson, the activist investor attempting to change the direction within the British bank Barclays, was attempting to have his fellow shareholders approve his ascension to the Board of the Bank on account of wanting to stem the continued development of…