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 Entries tagged "Federal Reserve"The chairman has spokenChris Dodd has put forward a tough financial services reform bill. Now he can get started on one that might pass. AIG Inc.The latest on the bailout to end all bailouts. Buyout blackball?As the crisis unfolded, private equity rushed to buy battered banks, only to discover this was one club they had difficulty getting into. Resolution, trust, authorityGovernment wants the power to seize and wind down nonbank institutions. Just how that would work is still very much up in the air. Telephone tagRevealed! Tim Geithner spends a lot of time on the phone. But while we know the names of his callers, we utterly lack the context Alpha male eats crowGeithner yells at bank regulators, but they keep opposing the administration's overhaul plans anyway. The price is right?Consumer prices have risen for two consecutive months and commodity prices may also increase. TALF to the rescueThe program should be expanded to address existing troubled assets. Geithner got it rightCan the financial industry rise to the opportunity? Extreme makeover: Reining in the CDSsRegulators jockey to oversee Wall Street's latest villain. Transactions: Jan. 12, 2009Bernie Madoff's remarkably steady 10% return tells us a lot about investor expectations: big enough to get rich, but not large enough to attract attention. Movers & shakers: Dec. 19, 2008President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Mary Schapiro as chairwoman of the agency. The SEC has recently come under... After the stormThe future shape of the financial system remains hazy--and hugely important to the corporate world. Seamless transitionThe president-elect's new economic team is to hit the ground running and act in close coordination with the Bush administration. Transactions: Dec. 1, 2008As we move forward, replacing our old experts with new, how much of the old do we abandon and how much do we keep? Consider the case of the Federal Reserve. Paulson tries Plan BTreasury is now considering how to revive the market for asset-backed securities. Movers & shakers: Nov. 5, 2008Greenhill & Co. hired three former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankers to open a Chicago office for the independent investment bank. Glenn Tilles, Doug Jackson... Swap meetCredit default swaps get the attention of regulators, exchanges and clearinghouses, but how the process will settle is anyone's guess. Tinkering at the edgesThe Fed allows private equity firms to boost passive stakes in banks, but buyouts continue to be difficult. Happy days are/aren't here againLIBOR falls, so do equity markets. Banks get a bailout, but the financial system may have more shocks ahead. The outlook for regulation and the American lifestyle. Transactions: Oct. 27, 2008There's only one big problem as we redesign our regulatory system: us. How do we insure regulation doesn't get captured by the public? Transactions: Oct. 20, 2008Panicked markets invite intervention by the the government. But despite the escalation of state power, the response also represents a check on sovereignty in the form of global coordination. A failure at the FedThe central bank needs to do more to attract private equity money to the capital-starved banking industry. Transactions: Oct. 13, 2008Nobody seems to know what to do about bubbles, even as finance consolidates. Meanwhile, we're already preparing elements of the conventional wisdom for the next bubble. Enter the giantsAs bank consolidation accelerates, large questions await the day the crisis begins to recede. Big, big and beyondAmerica's banking giants may face more rule-making zeal, but the crisis so far has produced only more deregulation. The BHC shuffleMorgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have opted to become bank holding companies, but what does that really mean? Taxpayers to the rescueThe Fed and Treasury race to put out fires in high finance. But don't expect big ideas to fix the regulatory apparatus anytime soon. TransactionsSo far, at least, Treasury has set the agenda for financial reform. But even if the Fed becomes a super-regulator, a number of difficult, perhaps unresolvable regulatory conundrums will persist. Dilution solutionThe Fed raises eyebrows with some changes in Corsair's stake in National City. TransactionsBehind the kerfluffle over Fannie and Freddie, rumors and shorts, Congress still seems to believe that the Federal Reserve is the only answer to our woes. Doesn't anyone out there have an alternative? Take it to the limitPE firms are pushing to bust down the Bank Holding Company Act, but is that really necessary? TransactionsSo far the debate over financial regulation consists of some papers fluttering out of Treasury. The public is snoozing, Congress distracted and SEC chief Christopher Cox seems ready to give up the ghost. This'll be great. The Fed cozies up to private equityThe Fed is talking to buyout shops about easing the rules on PE investment in banks. Either the Fed is getting desperate again, or intelligently creative and forward thinking. Testing BernankeThe media is rapidly building the legend of "Bhudda" Ben Bernanke. But the crisis that threatens us, particularly Lehman Brothers' woes, eludes any textbook and resembles the plight of a different decade every week or so. | ||||||||||||||||
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