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Graham Bishop is renowned for his vision and the courage to propose radical ideas, yet ground them in a mastery of the technical details of the financial system. He has been referred to as a one-man think tank.
European Commission: His influence at the meeting point of politics, economics and finance has been recognised on many occasions - most recently when the European Commission asked him to study the attitudes of investors toward the euro area sovereign bond markets. In particular, he explored attitudes towards the potential for a “common euro area safe asset”: what characteristics should it possess and whether it would ameliorate any of the concerns expressed about the features of existing bond markets.
Graham's many pro bono activities illuminate and reinforce his Consultancy Services. His deep knowledge of Europe’s financial system is integrated with his understanding of EU economic and budgetary policy-making – whilst set within the necessary framework of democratic accountability.
He was a member of the Commission's Consultative Group on the Impact of the Euro on Capital Markets; of the Commission's Strategy Group on Financial Services; and of the Committee of Independent Experts on the preparation of the changeover to the single currency (1994/5).
This Website, as well as Graham's Consultancy Service, is designed to bring clients the direct insights that flow from Graham’s position as a leading technical analyst of economic and structural developments in the financial markets of Europe.
"Institutional investors and major financial firms now face a huge commercial challenge in Europe. The vision of political integration has entered a critical phase: ...."
"..analysis of obscure bureaucratic manoeuvrings towards fiscal union, labour mobility and tax co-ordination etc. is quite outside the comfort zone of many..."
"It is now entirely foreseeable that governments may make potentially far-reaching changes that would impact the valuation of European financial assets, as well as reforming the nature of the regulations governing key parts of the financial sector’s business".
"..So the consequences of this crisis will be historic – and will reverberate around global financial markets. The stakes for participants in European financial markets could not be higher.."
Consultancy services can take many forms: face-to-face meetings, telephone discussions, written comments, speeches, special articles, customised research projects, etc.
The European Commission has launched a consultation over infrastructure 'project bonds' as part of its blueprint for economic recovery to 2020. Commissioners with responsibility for transport and energy were among those involved in drafting the consultation paper. They claim the EU will need investment of €1.5bn-2bn to plug public-sector deficits in transport, energy and digital infrastructure. It is not immediately clear why the European Commission would need to persuade investors to enter what is already a vibrant market – other than to keep private companies afloat by providing guarantees – nor whether it believes it can attract infrastructure investment into countries and sub-sectors where investors have been reluctant to enter. The Commission believes the EIB's involvement will boost lending to infrastructure after the withdrawal of banks as lenders of first resort. A Commission spokeswoman said: "The EIB brings in investors who otherwise wouldn't be involved." Asked whether the absence of a pan-European regulatory framework for infrastructure investment would dampen appetite for the bonds, she cited the framework agreed for scientific research across. Other participants questioned a definition that "bundles infrastructure into one big mass of things that don't behave in the same way and that have different underlying dynamics.” Full article
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