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Mark to Market Debate Continues

The Letters page in the Financial Times has become quite interesting in recent weeks  On 20 March, the president of the CFA Institute, Jeff Diermeier, defended fair value reporting, i.e. mark to...

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News Coverage of the Banking Crisis

Amazing how fast this has been moving. The Wall Street Journal has provided excellent coverage with in-depth reporting including the corporate politics that mostly occur well out of sight. (The...

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Making Sense of Public Ownership and Bank Pay

Governments in the UK and US have substantial stakes in leading banks. They shouldn’t be deterred by inadequate contractual language in their emergency rescues and infusion of funds during a crisis –...

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The FSA Needs a Rulebook?

It wasn’t so long ago – maybe a year or 18 months – that the light-touch FSA approach to regulation by principle seemed so much more enlightened than the SEC’s lawyer-intensive style with fat volumes...

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Utility Banking — at the Supermarket

Will the debate about bank models be superceded by other players? In the UK Tesco is now offering financial products including savings, loans, mortgges and insurance, directly. Wal-Mart tried to get...

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Funnier Than a One-arm Economist

I think it was US President Harry Truman who wanted a one-armed economist so he couldn’t say, “On the one hand, on the other hand …” Paul Donovan from UBS proved himself funnier, and more provocative,...

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Major Tech Innovation + Speculative Finance = Bubble – Carlota Perez

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital is a slim (171 pages of text) book with a hefty punch. In it Carlota Perez charts major technological changes over two centuries that drew in massive...

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Will Shangkong be the Banking Centre of the Century?

 At a SunGard conference in New Orleans a bunch of years ago, an executive from a Chinese bank – it may have been Citic – explained that they were buying Panorama for risk management so they could...

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SIFMA chief expects a systemic US regulator by early 2010

 The US needs a single financial stability regulator, said Tom Ryan, chief executive of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).  In a recent presentation at a Reuters...

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Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone Valuable for Understanding the Credit Crisis

 Better add Vanity Fair and yes, Rolling Stone, to your reading list if you want to understand the financial crisis. No longer are Banking Technology, the Economist and the FT enough. In the current...

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