Showing posts with label SIFIs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SIFIs. Show all posts
March 02, 2018

“Relax” or “tighten” has little to do with better regulation of US’s banks. Revise, correct and simplify, is what it should all be about.

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Sir, I refer to Hal Scott’s and Lisa Donner’s discussion “ Head to head: Should the US relax regulation on its big banks? ” March 2. Ha...
April 05, 2016

Would adequate SIFIs’ designations have helped to avert the last crisis? Of course not!

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Sir, I refer to Patrick Jenkin’s “ MetLife ruling poses threat to drive towards global financial stability ” April 5. Jenkin sounds ver...
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...
March 06, 2015

Real stress tests on banks are not performed, since these would evidence the failure of regulations.

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Sir, Gillian Tett writes “One reason the banks got into such trouble before 2007 was that they had all learnt to game the regulatory system...
January 08, 2015

Systemic distortion of bank credit allocation, is worse than risks with “global systemically important banks”

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In November 1999 I concluded and Op-Ed with: “Currently market forces favors the larger the entity is, be it banks, law firms, auditing fi...
December 09, 2014

Why do so many care so much more about the risks banks should avoid, than about the risks they should take?

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Sir, Martin Arnold in reference to Mark Carney’s, the head of the Financial Stability Board proposal for systemically important banks to ho...
November 28, 2012

As a central banker Mark Carney might be great, but, as a bank regulator, like the rest of that bunch, he stinks.

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Sir, I do not opine on Mark Carney´s qualifications as a traditional central banker, these are probably fabulous, but, as a bank regulator,...
November 19, 2012

Pray for some shadows sufficiently dark for some banks to escape the regulators... Caveat emptor, regulators regulating!

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Sir when reading Brooke Masters report on “ Regulators to tackle shadow banking ”, November 19, and given the regulators doing that are the...
September 19, 2012

Before going after the titans of Wall Street, we need to go after the petit bureaucrats of bank regulations

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Sir, John Kay ends an article that includes many truths about bank regulations with “the only sustainable answer to the issue of systemical...
June 11, 2011

Control the regulators, do not let them sell “Too big to fail” franchises for a meager 3 percent of additional bank equity.

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John Authers writes that “Self-control is the key to an investors life” June 11. He is right but the self-control that we all need and shou...