Around 700 days since 51.9% of the participating UK electorate voted to leave the EU and around 500 days since Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as 45th president of the United States (with a disappointingly small turnout), I’m beginning to make sense of it all. After months of endlessly reading articles on the subject of … Read More →
Graduation Speech IE Business School – Madrid July 21st, 2016
Transcript: Buenas tardes estimados estudiantes, en la última clase, después de un año en Madrid y antes de recibir el diploma del Master, me gustaría de testar su español… No, don’t worry, no Spanish test today – I’ll, continue in English! Dear Santiago, dear Faculty, dear Parents, Relatives, Ladies and Gentlemen, and most importantly, dear … Read More →
1929 vs. 2008: Thoughts on two history-shaping crisis
In 1930, Senator Carter Glass proposed several versions of a bill which aimed at the separation of investment and commercial banking. It was the beginning of the great depression – a period right after the “roaring twenties”, a time when ‘there was so much alpha in the markets, you had to be an idiot not … Read More →
Remuneration Policies and Incentives in Banking After the Crisis
Leading Up to New Regulation Leading up to the 2008 financial crisis lay a period of unprecedented growth for the industry. This was accompanied by an inflation in bankers’ remuneration packages, which started to move into the spotlight amid the crisis that caused hundreds of thousands to loose their jobs across the world economy but … Read More →