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26 10, 2018

Karen Petrou: A Volcker Rule to Live By

2018-10-26T19:57:18-04:00October 26th, 2018|Other|

I guess I’m not the only one with the willies over how procyclical the financial system has become.  In an interview surrounding his new book, Paul Volcker has sharply departed from current conventional central-bank wisdom, pointing importantly to the potent risk cocktail now mixing a decade of quantitative easing with the top of the business cycle and a sharp increase in market risk-taking.  He’s also argued that the U.S. is now a “plutocracy.”  He’s right – U.S. income and wealth inequality has hit new highs.  And, when inequality is as bad it is, it exacerbates the risk of financial crises.  Could our boom expire in a gentle, gradual way?  Or, as Mr. Volcker fears, will markets restructured by a decade of central-bank and regulatory actions into arbitraging and yield-chasing run for cover if they take fright?  And, if they do, how fast does this rout turn into another systemic crisis given that America is even less equal now than it was in 2007?

Mr. Volcker is almost alone among current and former regulators in his prescient grasp of the ways post-crisis policy fires up procyclicality in concert with ever-worse economic inequality.  As we noted in our assessment earlier this week of the FSB’s forward-looking work plan, global central bankers and regulators are totally pleased with themselves about the bastion into which they’ve made the world’s biggest banks by dint of all the post-crisis standards.  They’ve been worrying for years that costly bank rules realign finance into a “shadow-bank”

7 12, 2012

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2 03, 2010

Risk Management FSMs

2020-08-12T13:59:29-04:00March 2nd, 2010|Other|

 

Investment Adviser Custody
FSM Report: CUSTODY3
January 29, 2010

  • SEC final rules to promote the use of independent custodians by investment advisers.

Credit-Score Notices
FSM Report: FCRA27
January 28, 2010

  • FRB, FDIC final rule on notice requirements for creditors if risk-based pricing derived from credit scores results in consumer borrowing costs that are materially higher than the most favorable terms generally available.

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January 27, 2010

  • Basel Committee consultative paper to impose two new ratios to assess how liquid banking organizations are and how well they can withstand severe short- and long-term stress.

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January 25, 2010

  • FDIC ANPR outlining ways that compensation practices could be reflected in the risk assessments that determine deposit-insurance premiums.

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January 22, 201

  • Banking Agencies’ guidance that banks must not only manage interest-rate risk, but also take action to ensure emerging problems are anticipated and corrected.

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January 15, 2010

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January 14, 2010

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January 13, 2010

  • Basel Committee’s consultative paper that would change the capital requirements assigned to an array of on-and off-balance sheet obligations.

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9 01, 2009

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3 01, 2009

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3 01, 2009

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2009-01-03T21:28:45-05:00January 3rd, 2009|Other|

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3 01, 2009

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3 01, 2009

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2009-01-03T21:27:24-05:00January 3rd, 2009|Other|

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