Posts By Peter Guy, Regulation Asia
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729The Risky Business of Hiring Chinese Investment Bankers
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia July 9, 2018The real cost of doing business in China was suddenly revealed with Credit Suisse’s settlements totalling $77 million with the SEC and DOJ over its alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by employing Chinese princelings and princesses.
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727What Happens When We Face the Next Banking Crisis?
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia July 5, 2018A recent IMFBlog post suggests policymakers and regulators are still unprepared to confront the stark moral and economic dilemmas in handling bank failures.
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930SWIFT and the Death of Global Financial Regulations
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia July 2, 2018Intense geopolitical rivalries and new technologies threaten a new Cold War by enabling weaponisation of the international payment system and disruption of the international financial order.
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695Deutsche Bank Pressures Tied to Regulatory Woes
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia June 28, 2018It’s impossible to separate Deutsche Bank’s ongoing regulatory compliance shortcomings from its business exigencies. The recent and unusual censure from the Federal Reserve highlights the bank’s inexorable pressures.
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862The Greek Tragedy of Financial Regulation
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia June 25, 2018The latest Eurozone bailout has effectively sentenced the country to a generation of vassalage, creating a financial serfdom. Weak growth and regulatory shortcomings will only invite the next crisis.
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1.3KHK Virtual Bank Licence Offers Nothing New for Local Market
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia June 21, 2018The HKMA and its new regulations fail to recognise that virtual banking has long existed. Redundant and irrelevant rules only hold back fintech development in Hong Kong.
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730Push for Bank Capital Easing May Signal Top of Market Cycle
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia June 14, 2018Financial regulation is beginning to mirror the boom and bust cycles of the market as participants lobby regulators to loosen capital requirements – this at what appears to be the peak of the post-crisis economic growth cycle.
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728Volcker Rule – Road to Reform or Ruin?
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia June 11, 2018Proposed changes by the Trump Administration to the Volcker Rule are already controversial. Linking cause and effect to risk management have only resulted in an excessively complex regulation that is proving difficult to reform in a “too big to fail”...
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781Gaming the System is Part of Being a Great Banker
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia June 7, 2018Criminal charges brought by Australian regulators against bankers in the ANZ cartel case represent a challenge against practices traditionally considered the norm in global underwriting syndicate culture.
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829Eurozone’s Weakest Links Place Bank Regulation Under Threat
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia June 4, 2018Every banking system at the bottom of the financial pool crosses paths eventually, and in desperate times only a tangled morass of regulations versus sovereign imperatives awaits.
