Showing posts with label Tracy Alloway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tracy Alloway. Show all posts
February 09, 2015

Some are unfortunately the “Too Small To Be Invited To Basel Or Davos Banks”

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Sir, Tracy Alloway reports on that “ New rules hit small US banks ‘hardest’ ” February 9. She is right, but this has been since the imposit...
February 07, 2015

Thanks to credit risk weighted equity requirements, borrowers and banks now share the objective of fooling regulators.

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Sir, Tracy Alloway refers to the transformation of unsafe loans into super-duper “safe” ones “ eBonds that strip out risk would be financia...
January 03, 2015

Beware of excessive information. (Blissful) ignorance is a potent driver of financial markets and of human activities.

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Sir, Tracy Alloway describes the possibility of adding on, as you go along, new pieces of information that will enhance the knowledge of t...
November 29, 2014

Gauging the level of understanding of Fed statements assumes, kindly, Fed understands what it writes. Does it?

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Sir, Tracy Alloway tackles the issue of “ Why Fed statements have become literally harder to read ” November 29, which generously assumes t...
October 14, 2014

We citizens need to lay down some strict terms for taming bad regulations risk.

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Sir, Sam Fleming and Tracy Alloway report: “ Rulemakers lay down terms for taming shadow banking risk ” October 14. And my wish would b...
September 19, 2014

Investors driven out of safe investments by bank regulations and QEs, are they yield-hungry or just yield-starved?

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Sir, Tracy Alloway and Michael MacKensie write that “Sales of US corporate bonds reflect a worrying lack of ratings differentiation” and th...
August 20, 2014

Most of the concern with derivatives derives only from the fact that “derivatives” sounds so deliciously sophisticated.

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Sir, Tracy Alloway and Michael Mackenzie when reporting on the “ Dangers to system from derivatives´ new boom ", August 20, might not ...
August 12, 2014

We must stop building that mountain of dangerous elusive safety that is sure to crumble and fall on us.

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Sir, I refer to Tracy Alloway’s and Michael MacKenzie´s “ Finance: The FICC and the dead ” August 12. In October 2004, in a formal writ...
August 07, 2014

There are two entirely different kinds of risks. Investing in “risky”, and excessive investment in “safe”

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Sir, Tracy Alloway reports that, as a result of “low volatility” which sets off ‘feedback loop”, “ Banks warn of ‘excessive’ risk taking ” ...
July 12, 2014

The genie in the Basel Committee’s Aladdin lamp… is as dumb as genies can come

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Sir, I had no idea of the existence of the “state of the art risk and order management system” described interestingly by Tracy Alloway in ...
May 03, 2014

Ever more complex finance requires denser and duller, bordering on brain-less, hard-headed stubborn bank regulators.

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Sir, Tracy Alloway writes “If the institutions which create these [sophisticated financial] products cannot correctly asses their value, th...
January 18, 2014

Excessive exposures to what is “absolutely safe” by regulated banks could be much more dangerous than whatever lurks in the shadows.

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Sir Tracy Alloway writes “Shadow banks, we are told, are unregulated institutions that lurk in the dark corners of the financial system – a...
November 23, 2013

Good for you, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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Sir, Tracy Alloway writes that “last week the Commodity Futures Trading Commission upset many traders when it announced it would require ca...
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 21, 2013

The incongruency of current risk-weighted capital requirements shine s through again.

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Sir, Tracy Alloway and Vivianne Rodriguez end their “ US repo finance faces threat from new capital rules ” August 21, by quoting a person ...
August 03, 2013

Fabrice Tourre has been duly scalped, but where is the SEC’s mea culpa?

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Sir, I have no doubt whatsoever that the prime responsible for the current financial mess were dumb bank regulators. That’s is why I dislik...
July 10, 2013

Higher capital will soon turn into banks’ new competitive edge.

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Sir I refer to Tracy Alloway’s and Patrick Jenkins’ “ US banks face strict leverage proposals ” July 10. At this moment, when warning s...
March 25, 2013

If it looks like a distortion, quacks like a distortion, and walks like a distortion then it probably is a distortion.

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Sir, Brooke Masters, Tracy Alloway and Shahien Nasiripour report on how banks use “pricey credit default swaps to cut their capital require...
February 18, 2013

The Basel Committee’s nanny-cartel’s truly colossal bribery of global bank business must be stopped.

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Sir I refer to “ Banks’ risk tactic under fire ” by Shahien Nasiripour, Brooke Masters and Tracy Alloway, February 18. I sincerely cann...
January 30, 2013

“Under distortion”

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Sometimes I like to peek at sites with an “Under construction” sign to have a look at how things go. Nowadays one can also get a look of...