10 December 2025

Regulate or Restrain? Balancing Innovation and Investor Protection in Modern Markets

Every market shock seems to revive the same post-mortem: where were the regulators? Yet as innovation accelerates across financial services - from decentralised finance to algorithmic execution - a more nuanced question emerges: When should regulation step in?

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03 December 2025

Have We Gone Too Far? US Financial Power and the West’s Growing Economic Dependence

In global economic circles, one question keeps returning with greater urgency: Has the United States become too powerful or has the rest of the West simply become too reliant?

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26 November 2025

Access with Intent: How HNWIs Use Technical Instruments to Master Equity Market Exposure

For seasoned investors, equity markets are no longer about simply “buying the index”. In the modern era, high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) with the capital, experience, and infrastructure behind them are shifting away from passive allocations. Instead they are embracing the full arsenal of technical investment instruments available to them.

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19 November 2025

The Penny Drops, But Should Cash Disappear Too?

As the US retires the one-cent coin (the penny), the UK faces a familiar question: is small change worth keeping, or is it time to go fully digital?

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12 November 2025

When AI Ambition Becomes Excess: Are Big Tech’s Cash Flows Being Pushed Too Far?

For the past 18 months, capital markets have rewarded companies that leaned hardest into artificial intelligence. Nvidia’s meteoric rise, Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership, and Alphabet’s pivot to Gemini have all been celebrated as smart, aggressive moves in the AI arms race. But recent tremors in the bond market suggest a new phase is beginning, one where investors are asking: how much AI investment is too much?

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05 November 2025

The FCA’s Short Selling Overhaul: Progress or Pitfall?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just unveiled a landmark overhaul of short-selling rules in the UK, and it's raising as many eyebrows as it is cheers. Under new proposals, the identity of investors betting against UK-listed stocks will no longer be publicly disclosed. Instead, the FCA will publish only anonymised and aggregated short positions.

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