Robert “Bob” Jenkins is Better Markets’ nonresident Senior Fellow based in London (as announced in this September 5, 2013 press release).  As Mr. Jenkins’ bio demonstrates, he has decades of vast experience on the sell side and the buy side and as a regulator, most recently as a founding member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC).

Mr. Jenkins is one of the most articulate and forceful advocates for strong, sensible regulation of the financial industry.  As Senior Fellow, he represents Better Markets in the global regulatory reform debate and helps to mobilize the investment community to become a major voice for protecting and advancing the interest of investors in the financial markets.

As an industry expert, he also is one of the knowledgeable and informed commentators on the industry’s arguments against sensible and necessary regulation.  His speech in September 2012 when he was still a member of the FPC, “A Debate Framed by Fallacies,” remains a must-read classic destruction of the global too-big-to-fail banks’ key claims, showing in particular that “the regulatory reform debate has suffered needlessly for having been framed by a series of false choices advanced by lobbyists and accepted as given.”  Those undeniable false claims continue to be made and, inexplicably, uncritically accepted and credited by too many.  

Here is a selection of some of Mr. Jenkins’ other speeches, articles, op-eds and related materials:

• Barclays needs more strategy than just hope and a prayer: Financial Times by April 28, 2016
• Short-term return on equity is a flawed target: Financial Times Letter to the Editor, April 19, 2016
• Jamie Dimon’s letter to shareholders: Finance Watch April 17, 2016
• The long wait for a banker who is statesmanlike: Financial Times December 21, 2015
• Punish errant bankers – or we are doomed to repeat the past: The Independent November 30, 2015
• Speech at the 2015 Finance Watch Conference “When Timidity Triumphs…” November 17, 2015
• Wildest market swings since 2008 put regulators on edge: Reuters September 29, 2015
• Systemic Risk and the Investment Industry: Santa Fe Institute / Tower Watson September 1, 2015
• Greenspan’s Capital idea for cutting back on banking: Financial Times August 23, 2015
• Bank of England to look more closely at costs of financial regulation: Reuters, August 11, 2015
• Discredited bankers: Le Devoir, June 9, 2015
• Food for Thoughts: Robert Jenkins, former FPC member, at the Reform Club: CapitalJournal, June 5, 2015
• Why putting bank bosses behind bars is still nigh on impossible: The Guardian, May 23, 2015
• Show real remorse and the bank bashing will soften: Financial Times, May 18, 2015
• Other Leaders might have resigned – but didn’t, The Financial Times, May 12, 2015
• Greek tragedy and the siren song of the fine print, Financial World, April 7, 2015
• How HSBC chairman Flint can restore accountability at his bank, Financial Times, March 10, 2015
• So banks are too big to fail. Are they also too big to regulate?, The Guardian, November 28, 2014
• Time to punish those at the top for banking scandals, The Independent, November 14, 2014
• If you can’t do the time…, Financial World, August / September 2014
• Bank lobby has been successful at fighting reform, Finance Watch, August 27, 2014
• Watch Bank Stress Tests for Rate Rise Timing, Financial Times, August 27, 2014
• The Safety Catch, Financial World, July 2014
• An Opportunity Missed Rather Than a Case Settled, Financial Times, July 1, 2014
• System risk and the investment professional, NYSSA, May 2014
• Regulators’ attempt to hold back the financial tide are futile, Financial Times, April 16, 2014
• The ‘New’ Barclays Must Explain Why Bonuses Went Up While Earnings Fell, The Independent, March 11, 2014
• Out-of-court bank settlements undermine trust, Financial Times, February 12, 2014
• Be good, for business sake, Financial World, November 2013
• Rehearsal for Reversal, Hermes Investment Conference, London, September 24, 2013
• A Voice in the Room and A Seat at the Table, CFA Institute’s Society Leadership Conference, Washington, DC, September 20, 2013
• Don’t buy the hype about Barclays’ capital-raising, The Financial Times, August 1, 2013
• It’s Bankers know best all over again – with added irony, The Financial Times, July 25, 2013
• British Banks ‘Bamboozled’ Government and Basel Bank Rules are a ‘Busted Flush’, Bloomberg, July 12, 2013
• The Truth on capital that banks want to hide, the Daily Mail, July 8, 2013
• On this rocky road central banks’ signs cannot be clear, The Independent, July 3, 2013
• Is Barclays’ threat to cut lending a case of hubris, reflex or just stupidity?, Financial Times, July 1, 2013
• Advantage, bankers, Financial World, June 2013
• Swiss example questions need for QE unwinding, The Financial Times, May 30, 2013
• Don’t trust these bankers to raise the speed limit, with Professor Anat Admati, The Independent, March 15, 2013
• Stumbling towards stability, Financial News, January 14, 2013
• Bank Share Rating: Buy!, remarks given to the Association of British Insurer’s Annual Investment Conference, London, December 12, 2012
• Think the unthinkable on US debt, The Financial Times, November 14, 2012
• Investors: speak now or forever hold your peace, speech to the CFA UK’s Annual Chairman’s Dinner, London, October 9, 2012
• Regulators, Financial Industry and the Problem of Regulatory Capture, Foreword for the book Making Good Financial Regulation: Towards a Policy Response to Regulatory Capture, September 2012
• A Debate Framed by Fallacies, speech to the 3^rd Annual Summit of the International Centre for Financial Regulation, London, September 25, 2012
• Let’s Make a Deal, speech to the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, London, July 10, 2012
• FPC: One Year Young, The Telegraph, July 7, 2012
• The View from the Macro-prudential Bridge, speech to the Annual Global Alternative Investment Managers (GAIM) Conference, Monaco, June 20, 2012
• Banking Myths and Shibboleths, Bloomberg, June 1, 2012
• A Currency in Search of Confidence, The Financial Times, May 8, 2012
• Bank Executives: Now that we have your attention…, the Financial News, April 30, 2012
• Betting the Banks on Basel, originally published in the Independent, April 27, 2012
• A bank run for the benefit of its owners? Dream on, The Financial Times, January 8, 2012
• Why banks must think carefully before they shrink their assets, originally published in the Times of London, December 14, 2011
• Lessons in Lobbying, opening remarks at 3^rd Gordon Midgely Memorial Debate, London, November 22, 2011
• Bank reform can’t wait, The Guardian, November 14, 2011
• Greece will restructure but it must do so within the euro, The Financial Times, November 8, 2011
• Remarks to the 4th Annual European Investment Conference, CFA Institute, Paris, November 2, 2011
• Change Bank Pay Now, Thomson Reuters, October 31, 2011
• The Capital Conundrum, Speech to the Annual Conference of the International Centre for Financial Regulation, Berlin, October 19, 2011
• Why Greece must default within the euro zone, the Financial News, October 14, 2011
• Shareholders: it’s up to you to drive down bankers’ pay, The Financial Times, July 12, 2010