They are absolutely part of, and on the side of, global gangsterism. Which is, I think, how we should think about it from a "geopolitical alignment" point of view. It's got nothing to … (View Post)

It might be hard for Starmer and his Ming Vase bollocks. But the right thing to do is very clear and it was immediately apparent to every other Western leader. Diplomacy, alliances, democracy - all d… (View Post)

Exactly. Rump-NATO is the nearest thing we have as a starting point. Going through the EU on this is a hiding to nothing. (View Post)

Because the person concerned wasn't authorised to execute a trade on behalf of the bank. So you don't fix the problem by exploiting a back door to do the same unauthorized thing again, deli… (View Post)

We had a "large UK bank" client that accidentally processed an FX trade of several 10s of millions of dollars, because someone had failed to wire up the "test only" checkbox. The … (View Post)