Showing posts with label Basel IV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basel IV. Show all posts
November 29, 2016

Europe, Basel Committee’s risk weighted capital requirements for banks, is the kiss of death for your real economy.

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Sir, Frédéric Oudéa, president of the European Banking Federation, writes: “The Basel Committee is targeting the degree of variability in h...
November 15, 2016

What’s wrong with deregulating lousy regulations? Get rid of risk-weighted capital requirements for banks… but gently

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Sir, Patrick Jenkins speculates on what Trump will do to bank regulations and regulators and how the latter would respond in America and in...
September 02, 2016

When will the Basel Committee define the purpose of our banks, and regulate accordingly?

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Sir, Jim Brunsden writes of a “letter from the banking associations [that] calls on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to scrap pla...
June 14, 2016

Please help save us from regulators applying their standardized risk models to all banks… that would be the end

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Sir, Martin Sandbu, in “Free Lunch: The bank, the fox and the henhouse”, June 13, discusses the issue that “ Rules for banks’ capital canno...
August 27, 2015

A Leverage Ratio makes banks hold equity on all exposures, to cover specially for unexpected losses, like cyber attacks

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Sir, I refer to the letter signed by financial sector representatives: “ Leverage ratio threat to the cleared derivatives ecosystem ” Augus...
August 26, 2015

If we are going to have a Basel IV that works for the economy, it cannot be built on principles of Basel I, II or III

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Sir, Simon Samuels is half right when opining: “It is one thing to decide that tighter regulations are worth the cost. It is another to exa...
December 24, 2014

Could an app which controls bank regulators’ natural sissy instincts, be the solution for our unemployed?

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Sir I refer to Lisa Pollack’s “ It’s only natural to seek an app for everything ” of December 24. It really shed lights on how we could...
July 20, 2014

Britain could be against bankers, bank lobbyist and bank regulators… but should never be versus its banks.

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Sir I refer to Philip Augar’s “ Britain versus the banks ” July 19… what an unfortunate title. Augar writing about Alex Brummer’s “Bad ...
June 16, 2014

For Europe to reduce the horrors of its house of debt, it needs to allow its risky-risk-takers to get going.

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Sir, Wolfgang Münchau writes about a “balance sheet recession: the notion that indebted households and corporations do not care about cheap...
June 14, 2013

Gillian Tett describes another reason for using a tangible equity to asset ratio as suggested by Thomas M. Hoenig of FDIC.

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Sir, Gillian Tett is on the dot with her warnings in “ Watch out for the interest rate hike hit to US banks ”, July 14. And so there w...
October 06, 2012

I was so naïve, but I must insist on being so naïve, since I do not know any other way.

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There I was, a small financial and corporate strategy consultant from a small developing country, completely, 100 percent sure, that the ba...
February 02, 2012

A market distortion error is much worse than a model error

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Sir, as you might guess from my hundreds of letters to you over the last 5 years and which were ignored, I completely agree with Pro Johan...