The Frontier Financier

Is This The Bottom? (Part One)

5.01: "It's a rally Jim, but a new bull market as we know it?" Patrick Young extemporizes...

The Arrival of BATS Europe

2.37: It may be somewhat late to the party but the US 500lb gorilla has arrived in Mifid Europe...welcome to: BATS Europe!

Tax & Spend Is Already A Myth

5.42: In the economic bear-pit that doubles as a global economy, the larger nations are proferring tax and spend from the bully pit. Strange, as already the evidence is that higher tax rates are just not working at all. Patrick Young investigates a fundamental mismatch at the start of the much heralded Brown/Obama/EU New Socialist era...

Eastern European Finance - An Introduction for the Perplexed

11.51: The western media is waging a "Battle of the Bilge" currently in its reporting about Eastern Europe. Here's an Introduction to just what is happening and why the opportunities are already bubbling up out east...

TransAtlantic Tensions

5.09: Yes, Gordon Brown may be a totally appalling incompetent who has helped bring Britain to the edge of Bankruptcy but is "Team Obama" actually working on foreign relations or is it just too tired, (as it has claimed) to make foreign policy work while "fixing" the US economy...

UK: The Abyss

5.24: Hello, Good Evening and Welcome to the latest Reality Gameshow format...it's the Quantitative Easing Show... Is this growth I see before me? Or is it the Abyss for the UK???

TMX, LSE and An IT Riddle

4.06: The tale of Toronto-Montreal (TMX) and its sale of a Sola licence to LSE to power the EDX raises as many questions as it answers...

H1-B and the Real Battle Against Protectionism

5.10: "The Empires of Protectionism are The Empires Against the Mind" to paraphrase Winston Churchill. Today I want to look at just why trade protectionism is not the only thing to worry about and indeed why the US government is the worst offender, not merely endangering the global economy but actually endangering their own long-term economic power and the speed of their recovery... Incidentally, if you can't access this podcast, try the page "Free Podcasts" marked just to the right of this box so you can get a feel for this service. However, this podcast is reserved for our subscriber audience - hit the "Premium" button to subscribe now for one year, for only 2 dollars per podcast.

CDS Clearing On ICE

12.04: InterContinental Excahnge (ICE) makes a great leap forward today with the launch of their CDS clearing platform. However, the move and the events surrounding it raise many issues for other exchanges, market participants and indeed regulators...

Luc Bertrand's Canadian Legacy

7.17: The announcement that Canadian Derivatives Exchange Visionary Luc Bertrand, the man who rejuvenated Bourse de Montreal, is to depart the TMX Group he helped create, will mark a turning point for Canada's markets...