Showing posts with label Ben McLannahan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben McLannahan. Show all posts
May 17, 2018

Dodd-Frank rollback on mortgages heralds even higher house prices and even less financing of job creation.

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Sir, I refer to Barney Jopson’s and Ben McLannahan’s “ Dodd-Frank rollback heralds mortgage push ” May 17. Because of the risk weighted...
February 09, 2018

What if all finance help provided house buyers in Canada, which increases demand, reflects 30% of current house prices?

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Sir, with respect to Ben McLannahan’s extensive report on the Canadian house market February 9, “ Canada’s home loans crisis ”, I would jus...
October 19, 2017

Bankers instead of being savvy loan officers generating growth, have turned into dangerous addicted equity minimizers

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Sir, Ben McLannahan quotes Paul D’Onofrio, the chief financial officer at Bank of America, with that he welcomed any “refinement” to rules ...
September 02, 2017

Do subprime borrowers or investors in mortgages benefit from securitization? No, now all profits go to intermediaries

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Sir, Ben McLannahan, with respect to securitization of subprime mortgages quotes Julian Hebron, head of sales at RPM Mortgage with: “Making...
April 27, 2017

Congresswoman Maxine Waters… stop rooting for bank regulations that puts inequality on steroids.

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Sir, I refer to Ben McLannahan’s and Barney Jopson’s “ Republican puts forward alternative to ‘nightmare’ Dodd-Frank ” April 27. Jeb He...
November 19, 2016

Minimal capital requirements are a potent growth hormone for too big to fail banks.

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Sir, I refer to Ben McLannahan’s “ Kashkari scheme to end ‘too big to fail’ deserves a fair hearing ” November 20. Neel Kashkari, Jeb H...
October 22, 2016

I am a whistleblower on Basel Committee’s monstrous mistakes, but FT might not have seen my 2.375 letters either

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Sir, Ben McLannahan discussing whistleblowers and the fake-account scandal at Wells Fargo writes: “One even wrote an email in exasperation ...
June 26, 2016

The Federal Reserve’s stress tests of banks are dangerously incomplete.

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Sir, Ben McLannahan and Gillian Tett write that the US Federal Reserve reported that “Every one of the 33 US banks that took the first part ...
June 22, 2016

Hardheaded bank regulators still believe they’re up against the expected while the real enemy is always the unexpected

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Sir, Ben McLannahan discusses the consequences of changing “the current regime [in which] banks can hold off adding to reserves until the p...
April 06, 2016

Jamie Dimon should consider the long-term interest of his and of JPMorgan’s shareholders’ children and grandchildren

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Sir, Ben McLannahan reports on Jamie Dimon’s letter to JPMorgan’s shareholders’. “ JPMorgan chief Dimon warns on dangers of undermining US ...
February 23, 2016

How many small bank loans to SMEs and entrepreneurs has Basel Committee’s regulations hindered? Millions?

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Sir, Shawn Donnan reports that in his annual economic report to Congress president Obama portrayed an American economy in relatively rude h...
February 22, 2016

The most important risk with banks will most probably be totally ignored again in the stress tests

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Sir, Ben McLannahan reports on the Federal Reserve stress tests of the biggest US banks “designed to assess whether banks have enough loss-...
December 04, 2015

Risk weighted TLAC intensifies the irresponsible regulatory distortion of bank credit allocation to the real economy

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Sir, I refer to Eric Platt’s and Ben McLannahan’s “ S&P downgrades 8 US lenders on support fears ” and to Lex’s “ US banks: losing thei...
May 12, 2015

Here is what the Primary Bank’s game changing Manifesto could state.

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Sir, I read with much interest Ben McLannahan’s “ Rare US bank launch targets ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ values ” May12. And it came to me...
March 12, 2015

The Federal Reserve failed by submitting banks to an incomplete stress test.

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Sir I refer to Tom Braithwaite, Ben McLannahan and Barney Jopson’s report on the recent stress tests performed by the Federal Reserve ad th...
March 09, 2015

The Fed, surprising banks with visits is ok, but surprising them with surprise regulatory criteria, sounds illegal

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Sir, amazed I read Ben McLannahan reporting that “Fed officials say that they want to preserve some mystery in their methods, so that banks...
March 04, 2015

FT, odious regulatory discrimination against “the risky” is described on you pages; yet you prefer to play dumb and ignore the issue.

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Sir FT, amazingly, because it is not a good book, handed over the book of the year award to Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the 21st century’,...
July 21, 2014

Mark Carney, FSB, to begin, stop giving the Too-Big-To-Fail banks growth hormones.

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Sir I refer to Sam Fleming, Ben McLannahan and Gina Chon reporting “ BoE chief leads push to break ‘too big to fail’ impasse at G20 ”, July...
October 11, 2012

The banks are made to jump from one huge pro-cyclicality to another.

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Sir, Ben McLannahan reports, “ IMF sounds alarm on Japanese lenders ”, October 11, and this as a result of “domestic bank holdings of gover...