Showing posts with label Caroline Binham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caroline Binham. Show all posts
November 16, 2018

Stress tests for banks, performed by mighty regulators, signify dangerous systemic risks, as well as useless predictors

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Sir, Caroline Binham reports on how “Andrea Enria, the outgoing head of the European Banking Authority, who is set to become the Eurozone’s...
August 14, 2018

The regulators should also care about their own internal governance standards.

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Sir, Gary Dixon referring to Caroline Binham’s report “ Record caseload for UK financial regulator ” (August 13) writes, “FCA is now paying...
October 11, 2017

France, why are you willing to give other countries the advantage of having better-capitalized banks?

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Sir, Caroline Binham and Jim Brunsden write: France’s finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said yesterday that France would oppose any increas...
June 29, 2017

Financial Conduct Authority dare go after the Great Financial Distorters, your hubristic bank regulating colleagues

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Sir, Madison Marriage, Peter Smith and Caroline Binham, reporting on the Financial Conduct Authority’s FCA work on investment managers writ...
January 04, 2017

Draghi, the more confidence we have in risk weighted capital requirements for banks, the dumber and more fooled we are

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Sir, Caroline Binham and Emma Dunkley quote Michael Lever, head of prudential regulation at AFME, which represents the biggest banks and ot...
December 01, 2016

Using Basel Committee’s standardized risk weights could also be worse than using banks' internal risk models.

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Sir I refer to Caroline Binham’s, Laura Noonan’s and Jim Brunsden’s “ Basel fails to agree key risk measures ” December 1. Currently: T...
October 19, 2016

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has got to be kidding, or it is just too dumb. Your choice Sir?

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Sir, Caroline Binham writes: “Britain’s financial watchdog is clamping down on investment banks’ “misrepresentation” and league table infla...
October 09, 2016

I would not shed tears for the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision’s demise. Neither would millions of SMEs.

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Sir, Caroline Binham and Jim Brunsden, with help of Laura Noonan, report that the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision is introducing re...
June 29, 2016

The real UK economy, SMEs and entrepreneurs, need also to be invited to a “fireside chat” with Mark Carney and BoE

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Sir, Martin Arnold and Caroline Binham report on the invitation of Bank of England extended to “The heads of the five big UK banks — HSBC, ...
June 22, 2016

It behooves us to stress-test our main bank regulators; the Basel Committee and the Financial Stability Board

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Sir, Caroline Binham, Stephen Foley and Madison Marriage report “Systemwide and individual stress-testing of asset managers, as well as exa...
May 22, 2016

FCA, if bank regulators distort the allocation of credit to the real economy, is it good conduct or criminally stupid?

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Sir, I refer to Caroline Binham’s interesting story on how FSA, later FCA, investigated at a cost of £14m, a case of insider trading that ...
February 25, 2016

When you stress test lenders, why aren’t there any stress tests scenarios for borrowers?

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Sir, Caroline Binham writes that “ EBA outlines stress test scenarios for lenders ” February 25. And my immediate reaction is to remind...
December 12, 2015

For the good of the real economy, let’s pray the day of the so much needed bank regulatory enlightenment arrives soon.

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Sir, Caroline Binham and Laura Noonan informs that “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said yesterday it had dropped a plan to ban ...
June 10, 2015

Mark Carney: But what are we to do with the irresponsible and unethical behavior of bank regulators?

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Sir Caroline Binham and Martin Arnold reports that “Mark Carney, the BoE governor, announced an end to “the age of irresponsibility” and et...
May 26, 2015

William Coen. Do you really think that government bureaucrats use bank credit more productively that SMEs and entrepreneurs?

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Sir, I refer to Laura Noonan, Caroline Binham and Barney Jopson reporting that “ Basel group faces up to compliance challenge ” May 26. ...
May 20, 2015

Though we cannot fine bank regulators, we should at least shame them, for the mother of all bank-credit markets riggings.

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Sir, I refer to FT’s front-page report by Gina Chon, Caroline Binham and Laura Noonan “ Six big banks fined $5.6bn over rigging of forex ma...
May 14, 2015

The most incapable and failed risk-manager in history, insists on helping banks to manage their risks.

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Sir, Caroline Binham and Lindsay Fortado report that US regulators now include qualitative assessments of banks’ risk-management, “ Banks s...
May 01, 2015

Senator Richard Shelby. Ask Fed and FDIC, why Alabama’s borrowers are denied a fair access to bank credit.

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Sir, I refer to Barney Jopson and Caroline Brinham’s “ Republican resist global insurance role ”, April 29. Richard Shelby, chairman of the ...
March 05, 2015

The haircuts that will result from the mother of all market riggings... will be staggering.

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Caroline Binham writes about the Bank of England’ “potential rigging of money market auctions”, “ BoE embroiled in fraud probe of crisis-er...
February 25, 2015

Nowadays, in banking, more important than the “Know your client” is the “Know your equity requirements”

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Sir, it used to be that, beside general cost control, negotiating with the client was all a bank did to look for an acceptable return on it...