Capital / Liquidity

What Happens When We Face the Next Banking Crisis?

05/07/2018

A recent IMFBlog post suggests policymakers and regulators are still unprepared to confront the stark moral and economic dilemmas in handling bank failures.

Market Infrastructure

SWIFT and the Death of Global Financial Regulations

02/07/2018

Intense 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.

Capital / Liquidity

Deutsche Bank Pressures Tied to Regulatory Woes

28/06/2018

It’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.

Capital / Liquidity

The Greek Tragedy of Financial Regulation

25/06/2018

The 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.

Fintech / Regtech

HK Virtual Bank Licence Offers Nothing New for Local Market

20/06/2018

The 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.

Capital / Liquidity

Push for Bank Capital Easing May Signal Top of Market Cycle

14/06/2018

Financial 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.

Capital / Liquidity

Volcker Rule – Road to Reform or Ruin?

11/06/2018

Proposed 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” industry.

Enforcement

Gaming the System is Part of Being a Great Banker

07/06/2018

Criminal 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.

Capital / Liquidity

Eurozone’s Weakest Links Place Bank Regulation Under Threat

04/06/2018

Every 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.