Showing posts with label risk weight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk weight. Show all posts
April 07, 2019

The selection of independent central bankers should not be politicized, but neither should the criticism of the candidates be

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Sir, you argue that Stephen Moore nor Herman Cain seem to be “remotely qualified to sit in the monetary cockpit of the world’s reserve curr...
March 23, 2019

The 0% risk weight assigned by Eurozone authorities to Greece’s sovereign debt helped put that nation’s weaknesses on steroids.

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Sir, Tony Barber quotes Roderick Beaton’s Greece: Biography of a Nation, with a Greek former government minister saying in 2017 that the ho...
February 19, 2019

If Germany’s euro debt gets to be redenominated in Deutsche Marks, what would happen to its commercial surplus?

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Sir, Kate Allen writes: “German bonds, or Bunds… are the eurozone’s safe asset… the spread against equivalent Italian bond yields to about ...
December 17, 2018

If there’s a re-vote on Brexit, what will the Remainers suggest Britain remains in?

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Sir, Jeff Colegrave makes a well reasoned case of why, if there is a new vote on Brexit, it is on the Remainers’ shoulders to make very cle...
November 10, 2018

Poor Italy! So squeezed between inept Brussels’ technocrats and their own redistribution profiteers.

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Sir, I read Miles Johnson’s and Davide Ghiglione’s  “ Italy’s welfare gamble angers Brussels and worries business ” November 10, and I cann...
November 03, 2018

EU, when imposing armistice conditions on your capitulating eurozone sovereign debtors, remember the Versailles Treaty.

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Sir, Simon Kuper referring to historical events like the Versailles Treaty writes, “In international relations, treat even your opponents l...
November 01, 2018

With so much debt in a currency that is really not their domestic one, has Greece really made it to the other side?

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Tony Barber opines “Greece is finding its way back to domestic stability and a secure place in the European order” “ Greece shows how a mav...
October 29, 2018

EU authorities, assigning Italy, like Greece, a super duper investment grade status, are the original sinners.

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Sir, Wolfgang Münchau writes,“The main instrument of coercion in the eurozone is not its fiscal rules, but the power of the European Centra...
October 21, 2018

Allowing banks to hold sovereign debt against the lowest capital is evil, as it dooms nations to unsustainable levels of public debt.

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Sir, Miles Johnson, Kate Allen and Federica Cocco report “Italian bank shares were hit yesterday after the Fitch credit rating agency said ...
October 06, 2018

Instead of working on a Brexit, Britain should do all Europeans a favor and negotiate a very tough EU Remainer

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Sir, Simon Kuper, in a back and forth discussion on Brexit, ends upcontemplating “a soft Brexit or Brino, in which Britain becomes a poorer...
September 21, 2018

In the case of Greece EU violated a fundamental principle of a Union... solidarity.

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Sir, Jem Eskenazi in his letter writes about EU’s “fundamental principle of integrating a fractured continent into a peaceful whole”“EU is ...
August 20, 2018

The main challenges for Greece are the same main challenges for the Euro and for EU

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Sir, I refer to Jim Brunsden’s and Kerin Hope’s “ Athens faces challenging road ahead as it reaches milestone exit from bailout programmes ...
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...
July 28, 2018

I am not sure what, but, to hold the Eurozone together, requires something politically very difficult to be done.

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Sir, you write: “IMF…economists reckon the real exchange rate was between 10 and 20 per cent weaker than appropriate in Germany, which cont...
June 21, 2018

Is the Eurozone intent on once again give Greece's government a much lower risk weight than that assigned to a Greek entreprenuer?

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Sir, Jim Brunsden writes: “Eurozone finance ministers are poised to give Greece debt relief —The plan is to help convince investors that Gr...
June 12, 2018

Europe (and the rest of the world) needs to get rid of the distortions produced by QEs and risk weighted capital requirements for banks.

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Sir, Karen Ward, discussing ECB’s asset purchase programme writes: “It’s very hard to get the population to worry about government borrowin...
June 08, 2018

The euro did not derive from a union but was used to build a union, and that still poses great-unresolved challenges.

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Sir, I refer to Philip Stephens’“ Trump, Italy and the threat to Germany” June 8. Stephens writes: “Germany has been a “taker” — impor...
April 27, 2018

The severity of Greece’s financial crisis was caused, directly, by totally inept bank regulators

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Sir, Jim Brunsden, Mehreen Khan and Kerin Hope report “Greece is approaching a momentous moment: the end of eight years of international ba...
March 07, 2018

The Basel Committee’s tariffs of 35% risk weight on residential mortgages and 100% on loans to entrepreneurs, is pure protectionism.

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Sir, Martin Wolf, with respect to President Trumps’ indication that “he would sign an order this week imposing global tariffs of 25 per cen...
August 16, 2017

Its worse! To central banks’ holdings of public debt we must add that of normal banks holding it against zero capital

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Sir, Kate Allen and Keith Fray with respect to the QEs write that “The Fed’s balance sheet has expanded significantly several times in the ...