When Probate Goes Global
WHY EXECUTORS CAN’T AFFORD TO GET CURRENCY WRONG Being an executor is hard enough when everything sits neatly in one country and one currency. Add a foreign property or shareholding, an offshore account or pension, or beneficiaries scattered across three continents, and the job changes shape entirely, legally, administratively, and financially. Here’s what the role […]
UK Budget 2026: Haldane Warns Britain Is on “Thin Ice”, and the Gilt Market Is Watching
10/10/2026 by Tony Redondo Andy Haldane, the former Bank of England Chief Economist and now President of the British Chambers of Commerce, told CNBC this week that Britain is on “thin ice”, must act to “appease financial markets”, and faces “perils” in the run-up to the Budget on 28 October. Haldane thinks the government must […]
Brexit Isn’t Britain’s Real Problem. Productivity Is.
03/10/2026 by Tony Redondo Andy Burnham used his leader’s speech at the Labour conference to set out the options for UK–EU ties, all the way up to a second referendum and a bid to rejoin. He told the BBC’s Today programme, “We could stay as we are. That’s definitely an option, if people think this […]
UK Debt Interest Now Costs as Much as the NHS — Inside the Gilts Sell-Off
26/09/2026 by Tony Redondo The global bond sell-off has pushed long-term borrowing costs to highs not seen in decades, and this time it’s not a mystery why. A protracted conflict in the Middle East has kept oil and gas prices elevated and volatile, and that energy shock is now working its way through inflation prints […]
The $5M to $50M Growth Trap: Why What Got You Here Won’t Get You “There” Internationally
18.09.2026 by David Solomon of SERO Growth Unlock Real Revenue Growth with SERO Growth Your Partner in Progress Reaching $5 million, $20 million or even $50 million in annual revenue is a significant achievement for a privately held manufacturing or industrial business. It usually means the company has built something real: a proven product, a […]
Forget Brexit: Why Energy Prices, Gilt Yields and the EU Reset Are the Real Threat to Britain’s Economy
12/09/2026 by Tony Redondo Britain’s problem is not Brexit but the price of everything, above all, energy. Energy bills are heading up again. The North Sea sits half-licensed while ministers dither over Jackdaw and Rosebank. Andy Burnham is trying to sell an EU “reset” with a price tag running into the billions. And gilt yields […]
UK Gilt Yields Hit 18-Year High: Inside the OECD’s $21 Trillion Debt Warning
05/09/2026 by Tony Redondo The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) reckons governments and corporations worldwide will borrow $21 trillion from global bond markets in 2026. That’s $21,000,000,000,000.00, $5 trillion more than 2024, and double what was borrowed just ten years ago. For perspective: a million seconds is roughly a week and a half; […]
The Bank of England is Under Pressure to Halt Active QT as Gilt Yields Hit Multi-Decade Highs
29/08/2026 by Tony Redondo Economists are urging the BoE (Bank of England) to halt its costly approach to unwinding QE (quantitative easing), as the process is stoking the government’s borrowing costs and costing taxpayers billions, with borrowing costs hovering near multi-decade highs. The government’s long-term borrowing costs have climbed to levels not seen this century, […]
The 28 October Budget and the 30+ Tax Changes That Got Us Here
22/08/2026 by Tony Redondo The next UK budget has been confirmed for 28 October. In Labour’s first two budgets, under Chancellor Rachel Reeves, we’ve seen one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades with Britain’s tax burden up to 37% of GDP and forecast to reach a […]
The Gulf Region – so far away from being in Dire Straits’
15/08/2026 by Steve Parker of www.steveparkericd.com I thought I should use this opportunity to share my thoughts on a region you will have been hearing lots about recently, but maybe not in a positive way. It is a region that I first visited on business in the late 1970’s and have been working with and […]