Posts By Peter Guy, Regulation Asia
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548Deutsche 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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642The 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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1.2KHK 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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573Push 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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593Volcker 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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661Gaming 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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678Eurozone’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.
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701FRTB – Ending or Evolving Trading Culture
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia May 28, 2018FRTB will force banks to change their operating models, bringing them out of product and trading desk silos. Bank trading culture and the trading desk concept may need to evolve to accommodate a wider picture of risk taking.
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614Growing Liquidity Requirements, a Regulatory Hazard for Asset Managers
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia May 21, 2018Asset managers resist bank-like capital and liquidity regulations being contemplated by regulators. But new requirements appear unavoidable given recent regulatory trends.
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When FRTB Meets the Real World
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia May 14, 2018The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book was supposed to redefine how banks collectively manage risks. Yet, risk can still be a ‘ghost in the machine’.
