What happened at the Presidents Club quite rightly generated a howl of outrage from the real City, the proper City. Moving past that, how do you help solve the Presidents Club problem? The answer is easy, cheap and profitable.

It looks very much as if MIFID II is happening, and that it will cover all the sell-side and almost all the buy-side.

The past few weeks have been stressful for investors of bitcoin and other digital currencies, leaving them struggling to decipher bitcoin’s true value.

There is no such thing as delegation of responsibility in a regulated industry. 

Talking to financial sector companies and investors about the future of their technology systems, I have been surprised to discover that one of the biggest attractions of cloud computing for them was something as simple as being able to automate software updates. 

The appointment of a dyed-in-the-wool retail banker as head of Deutsche Bank is at best a pointless exercise in the bank’s continuing search for a new identity in the post-2008 financial landscape. At worst it suggests a bank heading in completely the wrong direction.

Einstein’s definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Analysts at Frontline are mentored by city veterans, who add front-end knowledge and on-shore experience to their output.

The Financial Times and trade press are carrying a story about a leaked draft of the MiFID II research rules.

The Financial Times wrote this week about a powerful new trend – locating jobs where they can be done most efficiently

The big news from the latest note is that the FCA has (finally) recognised that for research to be sold to investors, there needs to be some allowance in the rules for free trial periods. 

The latest news on MiFID 2 is even less promising than we had expected

The genie is out of the bottle when it comes to the effects of MiFID II on the research market

We have the best minds in the business mentoring and training our analysts.

When thought leaders think how banks will manage costs in the future, they think of Frontline Analysts.

Here is an article from the Wall Street Journal about structural change in the City.

It is hard to pin down what spooked investors in the recent rout of European financials. Read what Daniel Davies, our MD Equity has to say.

Could the current state of bank regulation be a bonanza for software and consulting firms?