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Tim Focas

@TimFocas66

Head of Capital Markets @Aspectusgroup, political commentator for @CityAM

 London
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Joined December 2008
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The Conservative Party has launched the 'Super Kemi' video game to showcase its North Sea policy positions. news.uk.cityam.com/story/247…
“The Capitalist: Tory wonks find new way to waste time with Kemi video game”

“The Capitalist: Tory wonks find new way to waste time with Kemi video game”

Super Kemi, the London Stock Exchange’s new bell and toasting the Toast Awards; catch up on the latest gossip in The Capitalist.

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Has anyone else noticed that the trading industry has developed a tendency of calling people funded traders when, in many cases, they are not actually trading with real money? financefeeds.com/are-funded-…
Are Funded Traders Really Funded? Simulated vs Real Capital

Are Funded Traders Really Funded? Simulated vs Real Capital

Passing a trading challenge is not the same as managing genuine capital. YCM Invest CEO Didier Essemini on what separates simulated accounts from real funding.

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Increasing the Bank Levy will make mortgages more expensive and the cost of living worse. Bankers are an easy target but it is also risky: banks in London already face a total tax rate of 46%, compared with 39% in Frankfurt and just 28% New York. Less profitable financial services = lower long term tax revenue
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Very punchy JP Morgan reaction to bank tax hike: "...to single out this industry for additional taxes again, one of the UK's biggest generators of growth and jobs, lacks principle. It also overlooks that the banking industry operates in a highly competitive global marketplace.”
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Piece by Joe Channer CEO of @DeltaCapita 40 years on, the next Big Bang is happening behind the scenes instead of on the trading floor cityam.com/40-years-on-the-n…
40 years on, the next Big Bang is happening behind the scenes instead of on the trading floor

40 years on, the next Big Bang is happening behind the scenes instead of on the trading floor

Capital markets are undergoing a structural shift as investment banks move away from legacy, self-operated back office functions toward shared, collaborative systems capable of supporting AI

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Six Exchange boss: London was always punching above its weight cityam.com/six-exchange-boss…
Six Exchange boss: London was always punching above its weight

Six Exchange boss: London was always punching above its weight

Unlike London, Swiss exchange operator Six has not plans for a tokenised equities exchange or 24,hour trading, its boss said,

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.@CityAM latest column following Mark Carney’s speech to the European Parliament last week cityam.com/is-carneys-europe…
Is Carney's European dream pure fantasy?

Is Carney's European dream pure fantasy?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is making a bold punt for European "integration", but it risks being a fairytale, writes Tim Focas.

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The index industry is in the midst of its fast fashion moment funds-europe.com/the-index-i…
The index industry is in the midst of its fast fashion moment

The index industry is in the midst of its fast fashion moment

For what seems like an eternity now, the index business has been dominated by a relatively straightforward task of creating a benchmark representing a market, calculating it reliably and then...

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Ah, just before the budget. ft.com/content/43efa6c1-6b37…
Billionaire trader Chris Rokos to leave UK for Greece

Billionaire trader Chris Rokos to leave UK for Greece

Hedge fund manager’s earnings have made him one of Britain’s biggest individual taxpayers

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.@Horizon_People in @CNBC this morning around a piece on Japanese startups, and IPOs set for boost with platform to trade unlisted companies cnb.cx/4xjz8hX

Japanese startups, IPOs set for boost with platform to trade unlisted companies

The Japanese regulator's registration of a new trading platform for unlisted shares could help create a more favorable capital-raising environment for the country's IPO ecosystem.

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Harry is back in the UK on GCSE results day. I'm thinking that he must hold the record for resitting. Why is nobody putting this spin on the story? One to look into.
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🚨 Excited to say that tomorrow I’ll be hosting the pilot episode of my own show on UK Live from 12–1pm. Hope you can join me! @UKLiveOnline
Image from Ellie Hodges (@EllieHodgesxx)
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.@rickygervais I know David Brent was not meant to be a leadership manual. Somewhere along the way over two decades on, satire has became the political playbook. My latest for @CityAM column tinyurl.com/yjxu8sdv
David Brent was supposed to be a satire, now he looks like a model for political leaders

David Brent was supposed to be a satire, now he looks like a model for political leaders

Attention-seeking, self-absorbed and desperate to be liked, David Brent was meant to embody everything a leader should not be - but today's media landscape rewards the very qualities Ricky Gervais...

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.@DeltaCapita in @theTRADEnews this morning - FCA transaction reporting overhaul to slash costs by more than £100m a year thetradenews.com/fca-transac…
FCA transaction reporting overhaul to slash costs by more than £100m a year - The TRADE

FCA transaction reporting overhaul to slash costs by more than £100m a year - The TRADE

The new rules will come into effect on 3 April 2028, and include changes such as reducing the number of transaction reporting fields and removing FX derivatives from reporting requirements.  

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.@DeltaCapita opinion editorial piece in @CityAM today - John Healey returns to a City that has outgrown his mid-2000s rulebook cityam.com/john-healey-retur…
John Healey returns to a City that has outgrown his mid-2000s rulebook

John Healey returns to a City that has outgrown his mid-2000s rulebook

As Chancellor John Healey returns to the Treasury, he must recognise that the City's competitive landscape has fundamentally shifted from the exchange-focused concerns of the mid-2000s toward a...

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The last time a Healey was in Number 11 we had to go running to the IMF because the country had run out of money. Oh how times have...errr...changed?
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Bank of England to push ahead with plan to limit hedge fund leverage ft.com/content/ea2f743d-c98e… via @ft
Bank of England to push ahead with plan to limit hedge fund leverage

Bank of England to push ahead with plan to limit hedge fund leverage

Move to make gilt market more resilient has been criticised for potentially raising funding costs

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ANDREW NEIL: I fear Andy Burnham is as ignorant as Keir Starmer on economics mol.im/a/15939393
ANDREW NEIL: Why I fear Burnham's as ignorant as Starmer on economics

ANDREW NEIL: Why I fear Burnham's as ignorant as Starmer on economics

There was something quite surreal about Andy Burnham's speech in Manchester yesterday, in which he outlined his economic policies.

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REEVES says she has 'more to do' as Chancellor.
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Oh ok, well she will bring vibes and low key deaths to the dictatorship role I suppose. Something different. Is this teenage girl North Korea’s next dictator? ft.com/content/7c1a4a27-2212… via @ft
Is this teenage girl North Korea’s next dictator?

Is this teenage girl North Korea’s next dictator?

Emergence of Kim Jong Un’s daughter at many public events fuels speculation that she is being lined up as a leader

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