April 29, 2022
Commodities Price Hedging with Shard Capital
Ashley Boolell, Partner and Head of Commodities at Shard Capital explains the current context on commodities and the services provided by the firm to help corporate clients manage their commodity price risk exposure.
April 21, 2022
Bill’s Financial Lite-Bite: The Current State of ESG Investing
In this week’s Financial Lite-Bite, Bill Blain, Strategist at Shard Capital, answers a series of questions on the topic of ESG investing. Bill dives into his thoughts on ESG investing
January 21, 2022
Bill Blain’s Financial Lite-Bite: the biggest threat to solving climate change and energy transition
In this week’s’ Financial Lite-Bite, Bill Blain discusses the biggest threat to solving climate change and energy transition, which he concludes is the increasingly Militant ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) rhetoric on gas
January 14, 2022
Bill’s Financial Lite-Bite: 2022 Market Predictions
Bill Blain reviews some thoughts on how 2022 is likely to shape up, as rates rise, inflation threatens, and markets take on a very much fundamental based approach.
December 21, 2021
Bill Financial Lite Bite: The Energy Transition
In Bill Blain’s latest Financial Lite-Bite, he looks at climate change and energy transition as one of the great challenges to capitalism and market economies – but there is no reason to fear it.
October 7, 2021
Bill Blain’s Financial Lite-Bite: Will Facebook go the way of the Tobacco companies?
In this week’s Financial Lite-Bite, Bill Blain, Strategist at Shard Capital, speaks about Facebook’s recent platform outages and the whistleblower testimony on their prioritisation of profits over people
September 29, 2021
Shard Credit Partners: Interviewing Richard Jennings – MD at JST Services (Scotland) Ltd
In December 2020, Shard Credit Partners announced it had provided acquisition financing of £12.0 million in support of a management buy-in (“MBI”) acquisition of JST Services, led by new MD and port sector veteran, Richard Jennings.
September 24, 2021
Bill’s Financial Lite-Bite: The UK’s Green Gilt
In this week’s Financial Lite-Bite, Bill Blain, strategist at Shard Capital, talks about green bonds, and more specifically, the UK government’s first green gilt.
September 15, 2021
Bill’s Financial Lite-Bite: Apple’s Monopoly
In this week’s Financial Lite-Bite, Bill Blain, Strategist at Shard Capital, considers Apple and why it’s doing so well in today’s exponential big tech markets.
June 30, 2021
Bill’s Financial Lite-Bite: The UK Housing Market
In this week’s Financial Lite-Bite, Bill Blain, Strategist at Shard Capital talks about the dramatic rise in prices recently seen in the UK housing market, and discusses what he believes are the reasons that explain such spike, as well as ask the question, should we be worried?


