Showing posts with label Brooke Masters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooke Masters. Show all posts
November 07, 2018

Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein has also a big question to answer us Venezuelans.

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Sir, Brooke Masters writes that when “Sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations it had misled clients about mortga...
November 03, 2018

Bank systems’ “Fifth Risk”: When shit really hits the fan, banks will be holding especially little capital.

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Sir, Brooke Masters reviews Michael Lewis’ “The Fifth Risk”, a book that got its titled when John MacWilliams, a former Goldman Sachs inves...
June 20, 2018

Do we not need a Martin Act to crack down on regulators who dare regulate banks without having a clear idea about what they are doing?

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Sir, Brooke Masters writes “global banks and other big financial services groups have lived in fear of an old New York state anti-fraud law...
December 29, 2017

What if we in writing had to authorize phone companies to listen to our calls, in order to have access to phones?

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Brooke Masters writes: “when I link our Amazon Echo speaker to my son’s Spotify account, I have no idea whether I am violating one of the t...
December 16, 2017

How long will regulators believe that unrated entrepreneurs pose more danger to banks than investment graded companies?

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Sir, Brooke Masters writes that “a group of banks collectively lent €1.6bn to a South African billionaire. At the time, these “margin loans...
July 27, 2017

Are those who impose regulations that create generous incentives for these to be gamed entirely without blame?

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Sir, Brooke Master while discussing regulations for carmakers and banks refers to “mis-sold mortgage-backed securities and payment protecti...
February 04, 2017

Risk weights of 20% for AAA rated and 150% for the below BB-, evidences the Basel Committee’s intellectual failure

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Sir, Brooke Masters makes a lot of good points in her “ Loss of a safety-first regulatory regime is no reason to party ” February 4. Unfort...
December 02, 2016

That banks have strengthened is pure wishful thinking, as most of it is the result of weakening the real economy.

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Sir, Brooke Masters’ writes: “Eight years after the financial crisis, we were all getting bored with bank stress tests. Most of the institu...
September 08, 2016

With respect to the Big Four, it is all déjà vu

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Sir, I refer to Brooke Master’s “ A clubby oligopoly that is overdue for reform ” of August 20 and to your editorial “ Accountancy’s Big Fo...
August 26, 2016

Regulators tell banks “Occupy what’s safe”; and so expel widows, orphans and pension funds, to handle what’s risky

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Sir, Brooke Masters reports on how the Security Exchange Commission is making sure that private equity industry duly manages conflicts of i...
July 02, 2016

Are the systemic risks, derived from many or all cars being on autopilot, ignored by regulators? Like in banking?

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Sir, Brooke Masters, with respect to the recent Tesla accident that caused a death, writes: “the more a car’s autopilot does, the less expe...
May 02, 2016

The real beasts in banking are the regulators who believe they can manage bank risks from their desks in Basel

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Sir, Brooke Masters reviews Tony Norfield’s “The City: London and Global Power of Finance” “ Banking as seen from the belly of the beast ”....
April 02, 2016

Rules that make all banks behave the same can pose greater systemic risks than all SIFIs put together.

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Sir, I refer to Brooke Masters article on “systemically important financial institution whose failure could destabilise the economy” “ MetL...
October 03, 2015

When paid by Volkswagen, the fines should go to patent free research of better diesel engines… and emission controls

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Sir, Brooke Masters write “Drivers who bought VW’s “clean diesel” engines are now faced with technical fixes that could well reduce both fu...
September 17, 2015

Sir FT, who is more likely to engage in predatory bank regulations, men or women?

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Sir, I have some questions to you in reference to Brooke Masters’ “ Women regulate banks run by men ” in Your FT Special Report on Women in...
March 15, 2015

Bank regulators have not even begun to learn from their mistakes

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Sir, I refer to Brooke Master’s “ Banks are still struggling to learn from their mistakes ” March 14. Master writes: “bankers say that ...
December 13, 2014

Any recklessness of bankers is by far surpassed by that of their current regulators.

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Sir, Brooke Masters writes: “Reckless bankers caused the financial crisis by running their businesses without a care for the long term cons...
August 30, 2013

The Financial Stability Board, one of the Great Distorters, goes at it again

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Sir Brooke Master and Tracy Alloway write about how the Financial Stability Board is focusing on securities lending, like the “repo” market...
August 06, 2013

Bank regulators insisting on playing risk managers for the world, evidences hubris and lunacy is still going strong.

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Sir, it is indeed scary reading Brooke Masters reporting on a “ Call to harmonise bank risk models ”, August 6. The average risk weight...
April 09, 2013

Much more important than guaranteeing sufficient capital, is that bank capital requirements do not distort.

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Sir, I am amazed. Brooke Masters, Financial Time’s chief regulation correspondent seems to be surprised with what she writes in “ The lever...