Boris the Build. Build, Builder!

Boris going full on New Deal Keynesian, with added monetarism.

NEW-

Boris Johnson:

'This is a programme for jobs, jobs, jobs, because it's by building, building, building... we'll get the jobs we need'

— Olly Barratt (@ollybarratt) June 30, 2020

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EY - The Auditors Who Don't Check Bank Statements!

The Financial Times revealed last week that Wirecard’s auditors in EY’s German office failed for at least three years to request crucial account information from a Singapore bank where Wirecard claimed it had up to €1bn in cash, a routine audit procedure that could have uncovered the fraud.

When I was an external auditor it was de rigueur to check the banks statements and bank recs.

What the fuck are they doing in audits these days?

In an internal note to senior partners on Friday, EY advised them to tell clients that the “objective” of the large international fraud at Wirecard was to “deceive investors and EY”.

Not shit Sherlock!

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Boris's New Deal

In his Saturday night lecture Michael Gove dwelt long on how FDR tackled the Great Depression of the 1930s. This morning the PM has talked about a “Rooseveltian” approach to the economy. Strong indications the government is about to launch some kind of post-Covid British New Deal

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) June 29, 2020

Boris has ruled out a return to austerity.

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Olympus Has Fallen

Olympus Has Fallen https://t.co/DbocdPcsRZ

— Enough Of That Now (@AndyGilder) June 24, 2020

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The Beginning of The End of The Covid Great Hibernation

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Wirecard CEO Arrested

BREAKING: Wirecard's former CEO Markus Braun is arrested after $2.1 billion went missing from the digital-payment company https://t.co/ZDIEWp4bLD pic.twitter.com/obfI8OgoXA

— Bloomberg (@business) June 23, 2020

It would seem that €1.9bn of cash on its balance sheet probably does “not exist”.

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Beware Fake Covid Pension Holidays

NEW: The Pensions Regulator should be alert to the risk of unscrupulous employers taking pension holidays during the pandemic that are not justified.

The Work and Pensions Select Committee issued the warning in a new report, published today.

— Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) June 22, 2020

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Don't Have a Cow Over Public Debt

Before we go into “shock-horror” mode on UK public debt, worth noting a few things. (1) UK public debt as % of GDP has averaged 95pc since 1700 and been as high as 250pc. (2) Recovery in economy will bring the ratio down. (3) Iinterest rates on debt v.low. https://t.co/dH8VB6Mhf1

— Andrew Sentance (@asentance) June 19, 2020

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Rates Unchanged QE Raised £100BN

BoE Bank Rate unchanged -- Gilt purchases remit raised by GBP 100bln to 745bln (8-1 in favour) -- notes purchases can now continue at a slower pace

— RANsquawk (@RANsquawk) June 18, 2020

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Global Britain - This Afternoon

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Shop for Britain - Save The Economy

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Boomps a Daisy!

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Unilever Shifts To London

Contrary to yesterday's gleeful headlines in certain sections of the media, Unilever is not leaving London for the Netherlands, but the other way around.

Unilever is to abandon its dual Anglo-Dutch corporate structure in favour of a single company in London, reversing attempts two years ago to combine its two arms in the Netherlands. The maker of Marmite, Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream said on Thursday it would merge its Dutch entity into its UK arm, Unilever plc, later this year if the move is approved by shareholders.

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Britain's Coal Free Power Generation - Courtesy of Nuclear and Gas

From tonight's BBC News. 😂🤣😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/KAho4FeeAR

— Bruno Prior (@bgprior) June 10, 2020

Don't tell Greta!

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BBC Prepares For Abolition of Licence Fee This Year

Cambridge-educated Tim Davie, (current head of BBC Studios) was acting DG before Tony Hall got the job - and comes from an overwhelming commercial background.

— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) June 5, 2020

Tim Davis the new DG.

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Bank of England Results and Data Usage of Its Facilities

Results and usage data

Results and usage data for our facilities

In this section

• Bank of England Market Operations Guide: Our objectives
• Bank of England Market Operations Guide: Our tools
• Information for applicants
• Information for participants
• Settlement and collateral management
• Documentation
• Consultations and other information

On this page

• Covid Corporate Financing Facility
• Participation in the Sterling Monetary Framework
• Operational Standing Facilities
• Indexed Long-Term Repo results
• Discount Window Facility
• Contingent Term Repo Facility
• Liquidity Facility in Euros (LiFE) 
• US dollar repo operations 
• Asset Purchase Facility - Gilt Purchase Operations
• Asset Purchase Facility - Corporate Bond Purchase Scheme
• Term Funding Scheme with additional incentives for SMEs (TFSME)
• Term Funding Scheme
• Funding for Lending Scheme

Covid Corporate Financing Facility

On 19 May 2020, the Bank and HMT updated a number of the terms and conditions of the CCFF.  As part of these changes, certain additional information on users and usage of the scheme is now published as described below.

The Bank will publish each Thursday at 15:00 information on the use of this Facility as follows:

(i) the total amount of CP purchased that week (reported on a settlement date basis) up until the previous day, in terms of the amount paid to the sellers;
(ii) the sum of CP purchased less any redemptions and sales (reported on a settlement date basis), since the CCFF began in March 2020;
(iii) the nominal sum of drawing capacity of all CCFF approved businesses* on the date shown;
(iv) the number of businesses approved for CCFF issuance on the date shown;
(v) the number of businesses approved for CCFF issuance that have outstanding CP held by the CCFF;
(vi) the number of businesses approved for CCFF issuance that do not have outstanding CP held by the CCFF; and
(vii) in addition to the businesses approved for CCFF issuance, the number of businesses that have applied to the CCFF and have been approved as eligible in principle but have yet to be fully approved for CCFF issuance, since the CCFF began in March 2020.

	All data as at close 03 June 2020
Total amount of CP purchased since 28 May	£379mn
Sum of settled CP purchases, less redemptions**	£16,186mn
Nominal sum of CCFF drawing capacity of businesses approved for CCFF issuance	£67,700mn
Businesses approved for CCFF issuance	152 businesses
Of which: Businesses with outstanding CP held by the CCFF:	53 businesses
Of which: Businesses with no outstanding CP held by the CCFF:	99 businesses
Businesses (additional to the fourth row above) that have applied to the CCFF and that have been approved as eligible in principle but have yet to be fully approved for CCFF issuance	99 businesses

The following additional firm-level data will also be published each Thursday at 15:00:

(i) the names of those businesses who have outstanding CP issued into the CCFF (reported on a settlement date basis); and
(ii) the amount of CP each business has outstanding under the CCFF (reported on a settlement date basis)

• CP held by the CCFF, by business (xlsx)

* Throughout, 'businesses' is taken to include all entities eligible for the CCFF, see CCFF information page for further details on eligibility.

** The ‘Sum of settled CP purchases, less redemptions’ in line (ii) of the above aggregate table is the total proceeds from outstanding CP purchases. Values held by each business are nominal values.

Participation in the Sterling Monetary Framework

The number of firms participating in the Sterling Monetary Framework (as at 26 March 2020) are:

Sterling Monetary Framework	214
Reserves accounts and Operational Standing Facilities	203
Open market operations	103
Discount Window Facility	157

Operational Standing Facilities

We do not publish data on individual Operational Standing Facilities transactions. We publish aggregate data on OSFs drawings on the third Wednesday of the following maintenance period on the Bank of England Database.

Indexed Long-Term Repo results

• Indexed Long-Term Repo OMOs by operation (XLSX)
• Indexed Long-Term Repo OMOs by operation (Jun-10 - Jan-14) (XLS)
• Long-Term Repo OMOs by operation (XLS)

Discount Window Facility

We do not publish data on individual transactions within the Discount Window Facility. We update aggregate data on DWF drawings on the first Tuesday following the final working day of the calendar quarter, five quarters ahead.

Contingent Term Repo Facility

• Contingent Term Repo Facility results (XLS)

Liquidity Facility in Euros (LiFE) 

• Time series data on the results of the euro repo operations (XLSX)

US dollar repo operations 

• Time series data on the results of the US dollar repo operations (XLSX)

Asset Purchase Facility - Gilt Purchase Operations

Current gilt purchases

£569,990 million

Data as at close 03 June 2020

We have data available on the nominal value of each of the gilts purchased. These are reported on a trade date basis, and updated following any gilt purchase operation:

• Gilt purchases in nominal terms (XLS)
• Gilt purchase operational results (XLS)

Asset Purchase Facility - Corporate Bond Purchase Scheme

Current corporate bond purchases

£14,537 million

Data as at close 03 June 2020

• Previous Corporate Bond Purchase Scheme sector share and holdings results (PDF)
• To make sure purchases are representative of issuance, we allocated each bond that was eligible for purchase to one of nine sectors, using a common sector classification. We then made purchases so that our holdings are representative of each sector’s share within the list of eligible bonds.

Sector	CBPS Holdings (as at close of business 3 June 2020)	CBPS Target Sector Share (3 June 2020)
	(% portfolio)	(% of eligible list)
Communications	12%	11%
Consumer, Cyclical	12%	12%
Consumer, Non-cyclical	17%	16%
Electricity	19%	18%
Energy	3%	3%
Gas	7%	6%
Industrial & Transport	12%	12%
Property & Finance	6%	9%
Water	13%	12%
Total	101%	100%

Term Funding Scheme with additional incentives for SMEs (TFSME)

Current loans made through the Term Funding Scheme with additional incentives for SMEs

£11,980 million

Data as at close 03 June 2020

The Bank will publish on this page quarterly data showing, for each group participating in the TFSME, the amount borrowed from the Scheme and the net quarterly flows of lending to UK households and firms. The first publication on 4 June 2020 will show lending data only. This will include participants’ base stock of lending as of end-December 2019, and Q1 net quarterly flows of lending for participants who have had this data certified by end-May.

Quarterly provisional publication dates for 2020 are set out in the table below.

Publication date	Period covered (up to)
4 June 2020	Q1 2020 (lending data only)
3 September 2020	Q2 2020
3 December 2020	Q3 2020
4 March 2021	Q4 2020
4 June 2021	Q1 2021

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• More detailed data (xlsx)

Term Funding Scheme

Current loans made through the Term Funding Scheme

£106,571 million

Data as at close 03 June 2020

We publish quarterly data with a one month lag, showing for each group participating in the TFS, the amount borrowed from the scheme. This also includes net quarterly flows of lending to UK households and firms, covering the scheme’s drawdown period, which ended in February 2018. The publication dates are now aligned with the publication dates for the TFSME, which are set out in the section above.

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In line with the TFS Operating Procedures, Participants were required to audit their lending data following the closure of the drawdown window. These audits have led to some data revisions. Lending data and Borrowing Allowance figures are now considered to be final. No firms were asked to repay their drawings as a result of the data revisions.

• More detailed data (XLSX)
• Data for the previous quarter (XLSX) 

Note that data may not sum to the total due to rounding. Data may be subject to revisions. 

Funding for Lending Scheme

We publish quarterly data showing, for each group participating in the extension to the FLS, the amount borrowed from us and the net quarterly flows of lending, broken down by sector.

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• More detailed data (XLSX)
• Data for the previous quarter (XLSX)

Note that data may not sum to the total due to rounding. Data may be subject to revisions. With the exception of any new groups that join the scheme, participants do not report data on lending beyond end-2015. Hence the lending data (and associated borrowing allowance data) will only change as a result of revisions to previous data, or to reflect new participants that have joined the scheme. 

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Samsung Heir Arrested

South Korean prosecutors have requested an arrest warrant for Samsung heir Jay Y. Lee on suspicion of stock price manipulation and audit rule violations https://t.co/cPrESeqaSn pic.twitter.com/VKwPLkp9xj

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 4, 2020

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Having a Solar Protect Tax Investigation Insurance policy at your disposal means that should you be one of the many 1000's of businesses or individuals that are selected by HMRC each year to look into your tax affairs your own accountant (your tax return agent) can get on and defend you robustly.

You have the peace of mind knowing that your accountant's (your tax return agent) fees will be paid by the insurance without any Excess for you to find.

Tax Investigation Insurance is an insurance policy that will fully reimburse your accountants (your tax return agent) fees up to £100,000 if you are subject to enquiry by or dispute with HMRC.

A Solar Protect policy will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to:

• Deal with any correspondence from HMRC
• Attend any meeting with HMRC
• Appeal to the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal
• Having the security of knowing that fees will be met in full will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to defend your position robustly
• Premiums are Annual Premiums.
• Premiums are inclusive of 12% IPT. 
• Premiums and IPT are due in full in advance / at commencement of scheme.
• There is a NIL excess on all policies.

Please click here for details.

Andrew Hauser's Logical Paradox

BANK OF ENGLAND'S ANDREW HAUSER SAYS NEGATIVE BOE INTEREST RATE WON'T HAPPEN IN NEAR-TERM EVEN IF IT'S DECIDED IT IS RIGHT THING TO DO

— Quantitative Trading (@fiquant) June 4, 2020

Tax Investigation Insurance

Having a Solar Protect Tax Investigation Insurance policy at your disposal means that should you be one of the many 1000's of businesses or individuals that are selected by HMRC each year to look into your tax affairs your own accountant (your tax return agent) can get on and defend you robustly.

You have the peace of mind knowing that your accountant's (your tax return agent) fees will be paid by the insurance without any Excess for you to find.

Tax Investigation Insurance is an insurance policy that will fully reimburse your accountants (your tax return agent) fees up to £100,000 if you are subject to enquiry by or dispute with HMRC.

A Solar Protect policy will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to:

• Deal with any correspondence from HMRC
• Attend any meeting with HMRC
• Appeal to the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal
• Having the security of knowing that fees will be met in full will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to defend your position robustly
• Premiums are Annual Premiums.
• Premiums are inclusive of 12% IPT. 
• Premiums and IPT are due in full in advance / at commencement of scheme.
• There is a NIL excess on all policies.

Please click here for details.

Cheap Mortgages

Homeowners can now access mortgage deals with interest rates below 1.5pc, as banks offer bargain deals to entice customers back to the market. 

Cheap funding has helped mortgage lenders cut the interest rates charged to consumers. Swap rates – the market's estimation of future borrowing costs – have fallen, the Bank of England has lowered Bank Rate and providers are paying less to savers, meaning they can pass on these reductions to borrowers.

Tax Investigation Insurance

Having a Solar Protect Tax Investigation Insurance policy at your disposal means that should you be one of the many 1000's of businesses or individuals that are selected by HMRC each year to look into your tax affairs your own accountant (your tax return agent) can get on and defend you robustly.

You have the peace of mind knowing that your accountant's (your tax return agent) fees will be paid by the insurance without any Excess for you to find.

Tax Investigation Insurance is an insurance policy that will fully reimburse your accountants (your tax return agent) fees up to £100,000 if you are subject to enquiry by or dispute with HMRC.

A Solar Protect policy will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to:

• Deal with any correspondence from HMRC
• Attend any meeting with HMRC
• Appeal to the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal
• Having the security of knowing that fees will be met in full will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to defend your position robustly
• Premiums are Annual Premiums.
• Premiums are inclusive of 12% IPT. 
• Premiums and IPT are due in full in advance / at commencement of scheme.
• There is a NIL excess on all policies.

Please click here for details.