Category: Regulation
10/30/12
07:49:12 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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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 »
09/03/12
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 »
08/25/12
08:58:09 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 140 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Investment, Regulation
Regulators of non systemic financial sectors should look at this:
Allen, Franklin, Trends in Financial Innovation and Their Welfare Impact: An Overview (September 2012). European Financial Management, Vol. 18, Issue 4, pp. 493-514, 2012. Available at… 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 »
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 »
10/12/11
06:27:17 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 198 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Of course, consumer demand isn't the only problem on Wall Street. Many "complex financial schemes" are about regulatory arbitrage - finding perverse incentives and enthusiastically responding to them. And the perversest incentive of all is "Heads you w… more »
10/09/11
04:19:29 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 5 words
Categories: Investment, Central Banks/Government, Academic, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Keywords: Financial Bubbles, Leverage more »
09/25/11
04:05:19 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 31 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Good column of Barry Ritholtz in the saturday Washington Post:
Washington Post: There are no rogue traders, there are only rogue banks, by Barry Ritholtz, Sept. 24, 2011
Keywords: Rogue Traders, Bank Regulation more »
09/19/11
05:27:10 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 6 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
April 2011
Keywords: Large Financial Institutions, Complexity more »
09/18/11
04:11:26 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 71 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation, Media
Harvard Law School: Fulfilling Kennedy’s Promise: Why the SEC Should Mandate Disclosure of Corporate Political Activity, September 2011Keywords: Corporate Political Lobbying, Political Sponsoring more »
09/16/11
01:55:12 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 13 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Ritholtz: 10 Steps To Prevent the Next Bank Crisis, Sept. 16, 2011
Keywords: Financial Crisis, Regulation more »
06/02/11
10:58:43 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 9 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Source: Yahoo Finance
Keywords: US Fed, Investment Banks, Regulation more »
05/07/11
08:40:33 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 137 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Find following a good article of IMF's Raihan Zamil. He explains that a unilateral focus on bank capital requirements would not make a lot of sense. He concludes: "Without a better understanding of – and greater focus on – how risk management and supervi… more »
05/03/11
05:37:42 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 253 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
US experience with banking regulation can give valuable input to EU regulators who came up with the idea to implement a crossborder banking regulation system in the EU:
Atlanta Fed: Creating an EU-Level Supervisor for Cross-Border Banking Groups: Issu… more »
04/26/11
06:33:45 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 87 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
VOX: Some progress in the banking reform debate, by Nicolas Véron, Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 26, 2011
On 11 April, the Independent Commission on Banking in the UK, chaired by Oxford economist John Vickers, published its muc… more »
04/14/11
07:30:38 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 222 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
VOX: The European Union should start a debate on too-big-to-fail, by Morris Goldstein and Nicolas Véron, Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 14, 2011Are banks too big to fail? This column suggests now is the time for Europeans to as… more »
04/03/11
09:36:37 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 17 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
click on presentation cover sheet to go to slides
Keywords: Bank Capital, Basle III, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi more »
03/31/11
06:41:20 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 197 words
Categories: Analysts, Academic, Regulation
Brown University's Ross Levine proposes to create an "informed, expertly staffed,and independent institution that evaluates financial regulation from the public¡¯sperspective":The Governance of Financial Regulation: Reform Lessons from the Recent… more »
03/29/11
06:39:55 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 451 words
Categories: Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Find following a study which provides further evidence that increasing bank capital could be a meaningful market oriented measure to to avoid excessive risk taking by big banks:Is there a link from bank size to risk taking? by Ray Barrell, E Philip D… more »
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