I have noted some of my concerns about tax devolution on this blog, as I feel there are real risks inherent in the process for
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Another campaign ask achieved: local authorities are going to issue bonds again
The FT has reported today that: Britain’s local authorities are on the verge of creating a multibillion-pound municipal bond market, amid growing friction between cash-strapped regions
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Green bonds
I have worked on and off for the creation of green bonds to fund green infrastructure development in the UK for more than eight years,
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Is this the next wave to crash?
I have to say I normally pay remarkably little attention to the Sovereign Society in the USA. They are, if I put it nicely, good
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Bond markets lack transparency
The Financial Times has noted that: Retail investors are being prevented from investing in the UK corporate bond market because of the way the market
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Credit quality of global groups at 25-year low
The FT has reported that the quality of corproateb debt is at its lowest level for 25 years. Hardly surprising, but it is yet another
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Accounting for PFI
Bonds are on my agenda right now. In fact, approximately half my professional work is currently dedicated to their use in the public sector. So
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Will Hutton on the need for bond finance
Will Hutton wrote a good piece in the Guardian on Monday on the obvious need for the use of bond finance to pay for the
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Financing housing
An aspect of my work which gets little attention here, but on which I am fairly persistently engaged, relates to developing new means of raising
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