Category: Banks/Investment Banks
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05/22/13
06:43:36 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
European Countries Lead World in Distrust of Banks; Lack of confidence in financial institutions may impede region's recovery by Steve Crabtree, May 20, 2013
Thirteen percent of Greeks said they had confidence in their country's banks or financial ins… more »
05/07/13
07:19:37 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 95 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Bankruptcy
Forbes: The Cyprus Bank 'Bail-In' Is Another Crony Bankster Scam, May 3, 2013
..."I have been an advocate of restructuring insolvent banks according to these basic capitalistic principles, which requires no public funds.
The difference with the “ba… more »
12/15/12
11:25:54 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 9 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
Source: NPRKeywords: US Economy, US Debt, US Indebtedness more »
11/10/12
07:03:37 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 19 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Central Banks/Government, Academic, Banks/Investment Banks
Dear Mervyn
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Best Wishes, George
Letter from the Chancellor to the Governor, Nov. 9, 2012
Keywords: Central Banking, Central Bank Independence more »
10/30/12
07:49:12 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 878 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Investment, Banks/Investment Banks, Industrial Firms, Regulation
Today, UBS announced a massive downsizing of its investment bank. Other banks are in the same process of will follow. This is a logical consequence after various of the investment banks had reached a "bubble stage" prior to the financial crisis. Excesses… more »
09/26/12
02:26:55 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 7 words
Categories: Investment, Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Restructuring
ESM Investor PresentationKeywords: European Crisis, ESM more »
09/03/12
07:05:03 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 106 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Bank of England's Andrew Haldane presented a new paper at the Jackson Hole conference. He calls for simplicity in regulation:
Andrew Haldane, News Release - The dog and the frisbee – paper by Andrew Haldane, August 31, 2012
Andrew Haldane considers… more »
08/31/12
05:34:15 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 195 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
William R. White, Ultra Easy Monetary Policy and the Law of Unintended Consequences, Dallas Fed, August 2012
"In this paper, an attempt is made to evaluate the desirability of ultra easy monetary policy by weighing up the balance of the desirable shor… more »
08/02/12
07:06:47 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 318 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
FTD: Negative rates as a precursor to the death of banking, July 31, 2012
Why negative interest rates could have a bad impact on the banking system, as explained by Morgan Stanley researchers:
The potential impact of negative rates on banks’ willin… more »
06/27/12
09:20:26 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 381 words
Categories: Investment, Academic, Banks/Investment Banks, Industrial Firms, Regulation
Arnott, Robert D. and Wu, Lillian Jing, The Winners Curse: Too Big to Succeed? (June 20, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2088515Abstract: "Much ink has been spilled on the perils of allowing some companies to become “too b… more »
06/24/12
08:38:10 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 277 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Academic, Banks/Investment Banks
Fama, Eugene F., Does the Fed Control Interest Rates? (June 1, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2089468Abstract:"Strong statements about the effects of Federal Reserve actions on interest rates are common in the media and amon… more »
05/30/12
05:08:54 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 84 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
Bloomberg: How Political Clout Made Banks Too Big to Fail, by Luigi Zingales, May 30, 2012The U.S. has historically kept the financial sector in check through a combination of sound principles and serendipitous decisions. But as the financial system… more »
05/28/12
Bloomberg: Let Data, Not Politics, Guide Regulation, by Tobias J. Moskowitz, Chicago Booth, May 24, 2012
Several years after the global financial crisis, the fierce debate over regulation continues to be driven by strong beliefs -- largely uninformed… more »
05/17/12
09:24:31 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 106 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
read Steven Horowitz' arguments on "Coordination Problem":
Coordination Problem: Krugman's Misreading of US Banking History, by Steven Horwitz, May 14, 2012
In his NY Times column Sunday, Paul Krugman tries, in vain, to construct a case for bank re… more »
04/16/12
Keywords: Financial Innovation, Investment Banking more »
03/25/12
06:17:14 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 192 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
Tyler Cowen has a great weekend column in the NYT about the mess of of the financial system and the "return of the bank run":NYT: The Age of the Shadow Bank Run, by Tyler Cowen, March 24, 2012Here just an excerpt:"The arrangement also assumes… more »
03/06/12
Bloomberg: Finance Isn’t as Amoral as It Seems (Part 2): Robert Shiller, March 6, 2012
Many people assume there is something sleazy about the business of finance, or the people who practice it. This impression is probably behind the commonly voiced op… more »
03/04/12
06:28:33 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 28 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
Irish journalist Vincent Browne confronts the ECB's (European Central Bank) Klaus Masuch demanding to know where the money is going.
Keywords: Socialization of Private Losses, Financial Crisis, Ireland more »
03/03/12
Keywords: Financial Industry, Financial Innovation more »
03/02/12
07:22:53 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 196 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
new paper on bank capitalization and bank equity:
Acharya, Viral V., Gujral, Irvind, Kulkarni, Nirupama and Shin, Hyun Song , Dividends and Bank Capital in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 (February 2012). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8801. Available… more »
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