Showing posts with label regulatory arbitrage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulatory arbitrage. Show all posts
October 10, 2016

No “regulatory arbitrage” distorts more than regulators’ dumb and arbitrary risk weighted capital requirements for banks

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Sir, Lawrence Summers writes: “The focus of international economic co-operation more generally needs to shift from opportunities for capita...
August 27, 2014

Sir, John Kay, while being entirely correct, makes you wonder where he has been the last decade

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Sir, John Kay writes “Much of the complexity of modern finance is the result of regulatory arbitrage – avoiding or minimizing restrictions...
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...
October 29, 2011

Even in very shallow waters one finds regulatory arbitrage

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Sir, Gillian Tett in “Baggy surf shorts, ´top freedom´ and the greater cover up” October 29, seems be confessing having engaged in regulator...
August 04, 2009

What we need is to pay bonuses for the right kind of risk taking!

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Sir the world is definitely confused. Lucian Bebchuk writes “Regulate financial pay to reduce risk-taking” August 4 even though as a Harvard...
July 25, 2009

Let the government charge for the protection racket services it already provides.

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Sir your “Vice of necessity” July 25, where you start hinting at legalizing drugs so as to raise the taxes fighting this crisis needs, opens...
July 23, 2009

FT is at long last very close to getting it, come on just one more push!

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Sir about six years and 300 letters of mine later you are finally asking to “cut back the credit rating agencies quasi-public authority” Rat...
March 05, 2009

But Hank had company.

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Sir John Gapper in “Too long in the spaceship, Hank” March 5, mentions that AIG´s “biggest money-spinner was regulatory arbitrage”. Exactly!...
April 18, 2008

But why did the regulators, knowingly, tempt the bankers?

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Sir Gillian Tett shows great expertise describing the physical evidences gathered in the ongoing “forensic research” like the regulatory arb...