Entries tagged "systemic risk"

Big names, plus Munchau, on regulatory reform

Sandy Weill and Wall Street analyst Judah Kraushaar tackle financial reform in a Wall Street Journal column that reads like it was cobbled together over lunch at the Four Seasons.

Breaking up the banks, continued

You think the future is predictable? How much would you have wagered a few weeks ago that breaking up the banks would be roiling the Zeitgeist? But it is.

Debating the question of bank size

The arguments for bigger is better in banking have long lost most of their persuasive power.

Nationalization, resolution and TBTF

Felix Salmon has sparked a renewed discussion among the blogs with his recantation of his position from last year that the government should have nationalized the banks.

Sanford Weill drops off Forbes list

For Sanford Weill, the one-time king of Wall Street, it likely has been a painful retirement watching his once great empire Citigroup collapse.

Duff McDonald on Jamie Dimon

Duff McDonald's 'Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase' is a pleasant, readable, if adulatory biography of J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

Begging for more bank bailouts

The idea of eliminating FDIC fees would create moral hazard as the check on risk taking would be removed and more bailouts would likely ensue.

'Say on pay' may make banks increase risk

Clusterstock's John Carney says that the Obama administration's bill before Congress that would allow shareholders to have a say on pay may make banks take more risks.

Lucian Bebchuk on pay and governance

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.

Considering a modest proposal to break up banks

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.

Richard Posner on consumer protection

In The New York Times, Judge Richard Posner ponders the the administration's regulatory reform plan asking: Why are we offering structural solutions when we don't fully know what really happened?

Wolf and the perversity of bank shareholders

Criticism continues to rain down on the president's regulatory reform proposals, but only Martin Wolf is bold enough to suggest a return to shareholder liability.

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