Banking System

Fess Up! SEC Pushes Banks To Disclose Europe Exposure

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Video, Eurozone, Obama Assassination Attempt, Eurozone Crisis, Banks, Financial Crisis, Financial System, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Big Banks, Banking System, Financial Regulation, Business News

Regulators are asking American banks to stop glossing over their vulnerability to the crisis in Europe. The Securities and Exchange Commission issu...

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Handcuffs and Prison Sentences for Bankers Next Time

Dennis M. Kelleher | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Banking Regulations, Dodd-Frank Act, Bankers Jail Time, Banks, Bankers, Bankers Prosecution, Banking System, Cracking Down on Bankers, Business News
Dennis M. Kelleher

The backlash after the next financial calamity will make the Dodd-Frank Act look so mild that many will wonder if it was written by bankers themselves. Handcuffs and prison sentences will not likely be in short supply next time.

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Avoiding Another Year of Living Dangerously: Time to Secure Financial Stability

José Viñals | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Sovereign Funding, Capital Buffers, Household Indebtedness, Financial Imbalances, Balance Sheets, Global Financial Stability Report, Overheating, Capital Controls, Banking System, Asset Quality, Global Financial Crisis, Government Debt, Macroprudential Policies, Bank Credit, Medium-Term Fiscal Consolidation, Capital Inflows, Debt Sustainability, Financial Stability, Bank Restructuring, Financial Sector Risk, Business News
José Viñals

We've slipped well beyond a year and the financial system is still flirting with danger. Durable financial stability has, so far, proven elusive.

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Government Bonds: No Longer a World Without Risk

José Viñals | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contingent Liabilities, Risk-Free Assets, Credit Ratings, Stress Tests, Cross-Border Linkages, Financial Sector, Sovereign Risk, Financial Risk, Balance Sheets, Risk Aversion, Government Bonds, Banking System, Financial Stability, Business News
José Viñals

The risk free nature of government bonds, one of the cornerstones of the global financial system, has come into question as the global crisis unfolds.

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Automated Greed Factories: How Soulless Banking Is Crushing the Economy

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Fraud, Goldman Sachs, Bank Scandal, Robo-Signing, Banking System, Flash Crash, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Financing has become a robotic form of mass production, designed to generate ever-increasing wealth within an artificial system by draining it from the real world. In a word, banks have lost their souls.

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Financial System Fragilities - Achilles' Heel of Economic Recovery

José Viñals | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Regulation, Economic Recovery, Financial Sector Vulnerabilities, Sovereign Risks, Financial Supervision, Regulatory Reform, Financial Reform, Global Financial Stability Report, Capital Inflows, Debt Sustainability, Banking System, Bank Restructuring, Gfsr, Business News
José Viñals

For emerging market policymakers, the main challenge will be to tackle the macroeconomic and financial challenges of sizable, and potentially volatile, capital inflows

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The Broken Global Banking System

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking Crisis, Banks, Bank of England, Credit, Bailout, Global Banks, Banking System, Banking Industry, Neo-Liberal Economics, Supply-Side Economics, New Economics Foundation, Business News
Ann Pettifor

How many Americans understand how broken and defective the banking system as a whole has become? For the crazy facts are these: bankers now borrow from their customers and from taxpayers.

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Johnson and Boone channel Yeltsin on the banks

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Robert Teitelman, Paul Krugman, Simon Johnson, Economics, Banking System, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Simon Johnson and the London School of Economics' Peter Boone offer up a critique of the proposed Obama bank tax in the Financial Times Tuesday and --...

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Peter Gerstenzang, Domestic Terrorist

Peter Gerstenzang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking System, The Patriot Act, Comedy News
Peter Gerstenzang

I mean, seriously, when was the last time you turned on your Tv and heard that Sheik Mohammed Somebody was arrested because the government was troubled by his unusual banking practices?

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Implications of the Bank Stress Tests

Douglas J. Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Stress Tests, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Banking Bailout, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Banking, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Imf, Banking Industry, Banking System, Troubled Banks, Business News
Douglas J. Elliott

The financial "stress tests" on the big banks gave us good news: they "only" need $75 billion of new capital. That's a lot of money, but much less than many of us feared.

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Why the Banks Still Aren't Fixed

US News | Rick Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saving Banks, Stress Tests, Banking System, Business News

The stress tests are done. The results are better than feared. Bank stocks are up. A few large lenders, such as Capital One, US Bancorp, and BB&T, are...

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Banking System Overhaul Coming: WSJ

Huffington Post via WSJ | Julie Satow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank Overhaul Geithner, Banking-System, Banking System Overhaul, Banking, Geithner Bank Overhaul, Banking Crisis, Banking-Overhaul, Obama Banking, Timothy Geithner, Overhauling Banking System, Bank Overhaul, Business News

As outrage over bonuses paid to top AIG executives and other executive pay scandals mount, the Obama administration has created a plan to revamp finan...

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