Showing posts with label sovereigns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sovereigns. Show all posts
November 09, 2020

By not asking all the questions that need to be asked, journalists also fail society.

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Sir, Henry Manisty writes “financial journalism plays a vital role in upholding the integrity of financial markets”, “ EU regulators have fo...
September 04, 2018

Myths, and truths that shall not be told, is why so little has changed since the financial crash

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “The financial crisis was a devastating failure of the free market… The persistent fealty to so much of the pre-cr...
May 23, 2018

Europe has been way to blasé about how the divisive forces of a common Euro within a not fully integrated Europe could gather strength.

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Italy’s new rulers could shake the euro ” May 23. On the eve of the Euro, November 1998, in “ Burning t...
January 26, 2018

Martin Wolf, public borrowings are being subsidized by bank regulations

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Sir, Martin Wolf discussing the UK government’s private finance initiative (PFI) and costs of capital writes: “A sophisticated counter-argu...
January 13, 2018

Parent regulators, not even aware they were the ones blowing the bubbles, shamelessly put all the blame on their toddler banks when these burst.

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Sir, Tim Harford writes: “As any toddler can attest, it is not an easy thing to catch a bubble before it bursts” “ Forever blowing bubblema...
January 03, 2018

In terms of causing the undoing of the west’s liberal democracy and global order, Trump (until now) is nothing compared to the Basel Committee

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Sir, Martin Wolf holds that: “political developments have fractured the west as an ideologically coherent entity” “ Global disorder and the...
December 06, 2017

More food for the hungry and less food for the less hungry sounds logical and decent, that is unless the hungry are obese and the less hungry anorexic.

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “More equity capital would make banks less fragile.” “ Fix the roof while the sun is shining ” December 6. Tha...
March 28, 2017

When “Eurozone sovereigns rush to lock in rates”… whom are they locking out?

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Sir, I refer to Thomas Hale’s “ Eurozone sovereigns rush to lock in rates ” March 20. It reads like the sovereigns were totally disconn...
December 10, 2016

When are regulators grilling Citi to be grilled on their own responsibilities for causing the 2007-08 crisis?

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Sir, Katie Martin reports: “ Regulators to grill Citi over role in sterling flash crash ” December 10. That’s OK. Grill Citi! But when ...
May 03, 2016

Sovereign debt risk weightings system, which assigns a zero risk weight, needs more than overhauling. Throw it out!

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Sir, soon 30 years after regulators decided with Basel I in 1988 that the risk weights for the “infallible” sovereigns were to be zero perc...
April 27, 2016

The Basel risk-weight for grand government projects is 0%; for an SME’s incremental development 100%

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Sir, John Kay writes “A high proportion of the mooted benefits of grand projects could be obtained by incremental development at a fraction...
April 19, 2016

The “risk” appetite that caused the 2007-08 crisis was for AAA-rated securities, residential mortgages and sovereigns.

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Sir, Laura Noonan quotes Bank of England’s Andrew Haldane with: “I think the risk culture, not just from the regulator but from financial f...
March 27, 2016

Sir, would you trust a columnist who refuses to acknowledge what produced Europe’s financial crisis?

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Wolfgang Münchau asks: “would you trust with your own security somebody who cannot even contain a medium-sized financial crisis? I personal...
February 05, 2016

A Cloud should provide us with legally non-contestable statements of our investments, a nanosecond before a cyber-blackout.

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Sir, I refer to Robin Wigglesworth “ HFT chief warns of ‘hole’ in electronic system ”, February 5. Getting into the paperless, and the ...
August 17, 2015

Alan Greenspan is either blind to what caused the financial crisis 2008, or does just not want to admit it

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Sir, I refer to Alan Greenspan’s “ Higher capital is a less painful way to fix the banks ” August 18. Greenspan has either no idea abou...
July 27, 2015

The best Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) is the one that most reduces the need for it.

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Sir I refer to your discussions about a “holy grail… a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) — a bankruptcy procedure for states.” ...