Entries tagged "banking regulations"
The marriage of shareholder governance and the belief that excessive compensation is the root of all evil is an uneasy one, as Harvard Law's Lucian Bebchuk reveals in a FT column.
The estimable Floyd Norris does a very gutsy thing: He takes a position on executive comp that runs directly counter to the rest of The New York Times' arguments.
The FDIC seized seven banks on Friday night and sold six Georgia banks to a private equity consortium led by Bankers' Capital Group.
Nassim Taleb appearing on MSNBC disparages Wall Street quants by calling them autistic.
Despite the suggestion of Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry of the blog The American Scene, breaking up the banks is not as modest a proposal in practice.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data shows that over the last decade most banks have complied with the controversial Community Reinvestment Act with no rise in failures.
