30 Mar 2010

Can trust in Securitizations be revived?

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The discussion about the feasibility of reviving the securitization business revolves to a large extent about how to ensure that investors...
29 Mar 2010

Compensation vital cost factor

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Over the years we have observed the rise and (more frequently) decline of many investment banks. As compensation is the key cost factor in t...
24 Mar 2010

Global Banks need Global Regulation

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The collapse of Lehman Brothers which had nearly 900 subsidiaries in around 20 jurisdictions demonstrates that financial institutions that ...
23 Mar 2010

Reshaping US Mortgage Market

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It beggars belief that a country that prides itself of its superior financial markets is not able to provide mortgages  on a private basis. ...

Financial Reform (No) Progress Report

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Politicians, regulators and industry representatives so far do not disappoint our (low) expectations. The main idea that seems to be gatheri...
18 Mar 2010

One regulator behind each banker!

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That is the ultimate destination of the effort to create regulation for a stable banking and financial system. It is the logic of central ...

USA: desperate search to increase tax revenue

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It is ironic that in a week when the helpless US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner pens a letter complaining about presumed unfair treatment...

FSA hellbent on destroying London as a financial centre

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The FSA - which operates as a Quango with only the slightest amount of democratic oversight and legitimacy - intends to bring the number of...

Deutsche Bank's Ackermann - danger of PR own goal

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Deutsche Bank's Josef Ackermann fully deserves his 2009 compensation which puts him top-of-the-league for a DAX Chief Executive. It i...

Bawag - problems of Private Equity or Hedge Fund Control

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The diffuse ownership structure of the Austrian BAWAG Bank - where an alternative fund management firm has orchestrated a buy-out consorti...