Showing posts with label stress-test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stress-test. Show all posts
August 01, 2016

The most stressful banks to me are those who least help the future of our real economy.

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Sir, Laura Noonan, Rachel Sanderson and James Shotter present EU’s bank stress test results. “ Bank stress tests single out the usual suspe...
June 26, 2016

The Federal Reserve’s stress tests of banks are dangerously incomplete.

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Sir, Ben McLannahan and Gillian Tett write that the US Federal Reserve reported that “Every one of the 33 US banks that took the first part ...
March 09, 2016

Why is IMF silent about the fact that bank regulators, slowly but surely, are causing the economies to stagnate?

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Sir, Shawn Donnan, Chris Giles and Gabriel Wildau report that “ IMF calls for global action to lift demand as China exports fall ” March 9....
February 25, 2016

When you stress test lenders, why aren’t there any stress tests scenarios for borrowers?

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Sir, Caroline Binham writes that “ EBA outlines stress test scenarios for lenders ” February 25. And my immediate reaction is to remind...
February 22, 2016

The most important risk with banks will most probably be totally ignored again in the stress tests

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Sir, Ben McLannahan reports on the Federal Reserve stress tests of the biggest US banks “designed to assess whether banks have enough loss-...
December 30, 2015

Europe’s economists and politicians fail to see the risk of economies growing with carbohydrates and without proteins

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Sir, Stephanie Flanders writes “Growth is not nearly strong enough in the eurozone at the moment and it is unlikely to be a lot faster in t...
December 09, 2015

To engage in ‘bank bashing’ while leaving the regulators unaccountable for their own mistakes is dangerously wrong.

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Sir, I refer to Doyne Farmer’s, Alissa Kleinnijenhuis’ and Thom Wetzer’s letter “ Prudent policymaking is not ‘bank bashing’ ” in which the...
July 21, 2015

Until regulators also worry about what’s not on banks’ balance sheets, banks will not serve the economy well.

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Sir, Tony Barber writes: Greece’s “economy also cries out for liquidity, bank credit for businesses and investment that will generate jobs,...
March 15, 2015

Bank regulators have not even begun to learn from their mistakes

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Sir, I refer to Brooke Master’s “ Banks are still struggling to learn from their mistakes ” March 14. Master writes: “bankers say that ...
March 12, 2015

The Federal Reserve failed by submitting banks to an incomplete stress test.

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Sir I refer to Tom Braithwaite, Ben McLannahan and Barney Jopson’s report on the recent stress tests performed by the Federal Reserve ad th...
March 09, 2015

The Fed, surprising banks with visits is ok, but surprising them with surprise regulatory criteria, sounds illegal

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Sir, amazed I read Ben McLannahan reporting that “Fed officials say that they want to preserve some mystery in their methods, so that banks...
March 06, 2015

Real stress tests on banks are not performed, since these would evidence the failure of regulations.

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Sir, Gillian Tett writes “One reason the banks got into such trouble before 2007 was that they had all learnt to game the regulatory system...
December 31, 2014

Stress testing of banks should foremost test whether these serve the real needs of the real economy.

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Sir, I refer to your “ Stress testing should not just apply to the banks ” December 31. In it you argue that “Regulators need a holisti...
November 04, 2014

Bank nannies decided banks should avoid risk and solely play it safe, and thought nothing bad would come of that

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Sir, I refer to John Stroughair’s letter “ Stress test assumptions were not particularly stressful ” November 4. In it he writes: “The ...
October 29, 2014

Martin Wolf, it is not Europe’s banks which are too feeble to spur growth. It is their regulators who are.

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Europe’s banks are too feeble to spur growth ” October 29. Wolf writes: “High leverage impairs the abil...
October 28, 2014

All Europe’s banks would fail a test of whether they allocate bank credit efficiently.

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Sir, Gavyn Davies writes “ Stress tests will not themselves bring the Eurozone back to health ” October 28. He is absolutely right, bec...
October 27, 2014

Europe, it is your bank regulators who most must be stress-tested!

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Sir, I refer to all the writings in FT on October 27 about the stress tests of European banks in order to ask you: If all banks that fa...
October 23, 2014

Europe, it is not bank’s balance sheets, but bank regulations, which most need a cleansing.

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Sir, Huw van Steenis writes that stress tests “have the potential to accelerate the process of cleansing banks’ balance sheets to support e...
August 21, 2014

Europe is about to throw away €489m to obtain fairly insignificant new information about its banks.

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Sir, Claire Jones, Sam Fleming and Alice Ross report “ Consultants to reap €490m from Europe’s banking audit ” August 21. First, we sho...
July 08, 2014

EAB regulators should be fired; they don’t care one iota about the real economy, as long as banks don’t go under during their watch.

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Sir, Sam Fleming reports that in order to “limit inconsistencies between the practices of different supervisors” EBA will deploy “a regulat...