Showing posts with label bank capital requirements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bank capital requirements. Show all posts
February 18, 2022

Compared to more than three decades ago, what is the current leverage ratio of our banks?

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Sir, Martin Wolf, in FT on July 12, 2012, in “ Seven ways to clean up our banking ‘cesspit ’” opined: “Banks need far more equity: In settin...
October 18, 2021

Martin Wolf, again, any good economic plan needs, sine qua non, to get rid of bank credit distorting regulations.

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Without an economic plan, patriotism is Johnson’s last refuge ” FT, October 18, 2021 In Martin Wolf’s Econom...
October 01, 2021

The history I’ll tell my grandchildren has little to do with Philip Stephens’ history.

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Sir, Philip Stephens writes: “Twenty-five years ago… the world belonged to liberalism. Soviet communism had collapsed. Historians will recor...
May 08, 2021

Will this tweet be ignored by FT?

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How much hubris is needed for regulators to impose risk weighted bank capital requirements, as if they know what the risks are? How much wis...
November 30, 2020

12 years since, and yet the true cause of the 2008 crisis shall seemingly not be told

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Sir, John Flint a former Before chief executive of HSBC writes: “Before 2008, regulators’ approach to conduct risk in banking was what they ...
April 01, 2020

Does Martin Wolf’s “The tragedy of two failing superpowers” conform with FT’s beautiful motto of “without favour”?

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Wolf opines about Donald Trump in terms of “a malevolent incompetent” and for this looks for the support of that totally unbiased Jeffrey S...
March 25, 2020

Do we have a banking system with banks as they are supposed to be?

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Sir, I refer to your “ Non-bank lenders will bear brunt of credit crisis ”, March 25 John Augustus Shedd (1859–1928) opined: “A ship in...
October 30, 2019

Well-invested small savings surpluses are better than big ones thrown away at fluffy sovereign spending projects.

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Sir, Martin Wolf correctly points out “Without the shelter of the eurozone, the Deutschmark would have greatly appreciated in a low-inflati...
September 23, 2019

The Basel Committee jammed banks’ gearboxes… not only in India

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Amy Kazmin reporting on India quotes Rajeev Malik, founder of Singapore-based Macroshanti, in that “A well-oiled, well-functioning financi...
July 12, 2012

It's what's safe that's risky!

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When "setting bank equity requirements, it is essential to recognise that so-called “risk-weighted” assets can and will be gamed by bot...