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Andrew Haldane, an otherwise sane Bank of England official, has suggested that bonus deferral and claw-back periods should be extended to 10...

while I agree with you that we have to incentivize banks to go back to their basic mission of collecting savings and using those to fund the...

What really drives financial market regulation is not logical thinking but a mishmash of misguided ideology as well as a reversion to good o...

When the EBA states that many banks would have insufficient core capital under the rules that will come into force we are not surprised. A...

How much longer can the image of Goldman Sachs get knocks such as these ? It is time that someone minded the house again.

When one reads that the recently appointed CEO of UBS hires a former colleague from his days at Merrill Lynch as Co-Head of Global Invest...

The publication of the results of the latest stress test performed on US banks does little to inspire longterm confidence in the ability of...

The discussion about separating banking and securities and investment banking has reached a dead end. But the inherent conflicts of interest...

The example of a minor Austrian bank demonstrates the potential fallout that can be expected if CDS sellers are required to pay out in case ...

Says today's headline in a newspaper ( City AM ). To leave the decision about whether or not a CDS pays out in a 'credit event' ...