After Comparing U.S. Regulatory Actions To Police Choking Incident, London Analyst Retreats

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Mark Melin
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Investec, the London-based research firm that has a history of supporting the large banks in the region, has taken its advocacy to a new level. And as a result the firm is officially apologizing for a backlash that compared regulators to an infamous New York City police choking incident. Ian Gordon lambast U.S. regulators for intrusive actions Titling a research piece on bank regulatory burden “I can’t breathe,” mocking the politically charged death of Eric Garner, Investec’s Ian Gordon proceeded to lambast U.S. regulators for “intrusive” actions and using the U.S. dollar’s status as reserve currency of choice to exert “disproportionate control” over…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.