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Advances in Credit Risk Management

The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Large Banks Repay TARP Capital: What Has TARP Achieved?

Proposals for a Paradigm Shift

The Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy: Do Low Interest Rates Fuel Low-Quality Lending?

Basel II

Towards Basel III: New Capital and Liquidity Standards by 2012 With Long Transition Period

Mark-To-Market Accounting

FAS 140 Revision Leads to Re-Intermeditation of up to US$900 Billion in Off-Balance-Sheet Vehicles Starting in 2010

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Guarantee Programs

Banks' Dash to Short-Term Financing: What is the Rollover Risk?

Asia/Pacific

China: Banking Sector

How Solid Are Chinese Banks?

Will China Use Quantitative Tools to Slow Bank Lending?

China : North East Asia : Asia/Pacific : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation : Systemic Risk, Vulnerabilities and Asset Bubbles :

Japan: Banking Sector

Should Japanese Banks Bail Out Ailing Companies?

Japanese Moratorium on Loan Repayments: Will It Ease the Hurt From Ongoing Asset Collapse?

Japan : North East Asia : Asia/Pacific : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

South Korea: Banking Sector

Is South Korea's Banking Sector Well-Equipped to Weather the Global Financial Crisis?

How Will the Korea Development Bank Be Privatized?

North East Asia : South Korea : Asia/Pacific : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Malaysia: Banking Sector

Is Malaysia’s Banking Sector Stabilizing?

Malaysia : South East Asia : Asia/Pacific : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation :

Australia: Financial Sector

Australian Post-Crisis Financial Regulation: Will Reforms Prevent Another Boom and Bust?

How Was Australia Impacted by the Credit Crunch?

Australia : Pacific : Asia/Pacific : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management : Hedge Funds and Private Equity : Real Estate and Mortgage Finance : Securitization and Structured Finance :

Taiwan: Banking Sector

How Are Taiwan's Banks Weathering Global Financial Crisis?

North East Asia : Taiwan : Asia/Pacific : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Islamic Finance

Will Indonesia’s Islamic Bond Issues Attract Investors in 2010?

Islamic Finance: How Insulated from Conventional Shocks?

Gulf Cooperation Council : Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman : Saudi Arabia : South East Asia : United Arab Emirates : Asia/Pacific : Middle East and Africa : Finance and Banking : Asset Management and Portfolio Choice : Banks and Risk Management : Securitization and Structured Finance :

Europe

Eastern Europe: Banking Sector

Jitters in Greece: Spillover Effects to CEE?

Eastern Europe: How High Could NPLs Rise?

Bulgaria : Central Europe : Croatia : Czech Republic : Hungary : Poland : Romania : Serbia : Slovakia : South East Europe : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Nordics: Banking Sector

Sweden’s Bank Stability Fee Attracts Worldwide Attention

The State of Finnish Banks: Strong Capital Buffers

Denmark : Finland : Iceland : Nordics : Norway : Sweden : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Greece: Banking Sector

Greek Banks: Watch CEE Exposures

Eurozone : Greece : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Too-Big-To-Fail Banks

What Is the International Response to Obama's 'Volcker Rule'?

The Effects of Volcker Rule on Alternative Investments

Switzerland : United Kingdom : United States : Advanced Economies : Europe : North America : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation :

The European Financial Stability Framework

European-Wide Micro- and Macro-Prudential Regulation: Leaders Give Backing

Brussels Intent on Regulating Hedge Funds: Will New Pay Rules Apply to Alternative Investment Managers As Well?

Europe : Finance and Banking : Macro View : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation : Systemic Risk, Vulnerabilities and Asset Bubbles :

Ukraine Banks

Ukraine Banking Sector: Ballooning NPLs a Risk in 2010

Ukraine: Banks Banking On A Bail-Out?

Central Asia : Russia and CIS : Ukraine : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

EU Stress Tests

How Healthy Are Spanish Banks?

ECB December Financial Stability Review: Increase in Expected Writedowns

Eurozone : Spain : Europe : Finance and Banking : Macro View : Banks and Risk Management : Systemic Risk, Vulnerabilities and Asset Bubbles :

Russia: Banking Sector

Russian Banking Sector: More Consolidation On the Way?

Are Russian Banks Adequately Capitalized Given Rising NPL Levels?

Russia : Russia and CIS : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Basel II

Towards Basel III: New Capital and Liquidity Standards by 2012 With Long Transition Period

Europe : North America : Finance and Banking : Geostrategic and Long Term Issues : Banks and Risk Management :

France: Banking Sector

France to Adopt One-Off Bonus Tax

Eurozone : France : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation :

Ireland: Banking Sector

RGE Strategy Flash: EU Reprieve for Allied Irish Banks?

Ireland Finalizes Bad Bank's Purchase Price for Toxic Assets, Keeps Nama Off-Budget

Ireland : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Turkey: Banking Sector

Turkey's Banking Sector: How Healthy?

Turkey : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Western European Banks' Support of their Eastern Counterparts

Greek Banks: Watch CEE Exposures

Hybrid EU Bank Capital: Twists of Regulators' Burden-Sharing Requirement

Austria : Baltics : Bulgaria : Central Europe : Croatia : Czech Republic : Estonia : Eurozone : Greece : Hungary : Italy : Latvia : Lithuania : Poland : Romania : Serbia : South East Europe : Sweden : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Italy: Banking Sector

Italian Banks Under Pressure: Moody's Downgrades Italian Banking System To Negative

Italy : Europe : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Latin America

Argentina's Debt Default

International Reserves, Private Deposits and the Argentine Peso

What Is Argentina Doing to Re-enter the International Capital Markets? What About the IMF?

Argentina : Latin America : Finance and Banking : Markets : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation : Government Bonds :

International Reserves and Private Deposits in Argentina

International Reserves, Private Deposits and the Argentine Peso

Argentina : Latin America : Finance and Banking : Asset Management and Portfolio Choice : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation :

Middle East and Africa

Iran: Banking System

Is Iran's Banking System in Crisis?

Conflicts Between the Central Bank of Iran and the Government

Iran : Middle East and Africa : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

Middle East: Economic Profile

Declining Confidence in MENA: What Can be Done to Help?

MENA M&As: On the Rise as Banks Face Tougher Times?

Gulf Cooperation Council : Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman : Lebanon, Syria and Jordan : Saudi Arabia : United Arab Emirates : Middle East and Africa : Finance and Banking : Macro View : Banks and Risk Management : Current Financial Crisis : Systemic Risk, Vulnerabilities and Asset Bubbles :

Islamic Finance

Will Indonesia’s Islamic Bond Issues Attract Investors in 2010?

Islamic Finance: How Insulated from Conventional Shocks?

Gulf Cooperation Council : Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman : Saudi Arabia : South East Asia : United Arab Emirates : Asia/Pacific : Middle East and Africa : Finance and Banking : Asset Management and Portfolio Choice : Banks and Risk Management : Securitization and Structured Finance :

North America

Too-Big-To-Fail Banks

What Is the International Response to Obama's 'Volcker Rule'?

The Effects of Volcker Rule on Alternative Investments

Switzerland : United Kingdom : United States : Advanced Economies : Europe : North America : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation :

The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Large Banks Repay TARP Capital: What Has TARP Achieved?

United States : North America : Finance and Banking : Macro View : Banks and Risk Management : Current Financial Crisis : Systemic Risk, Vulnerabilities and Asset Bubbles :

Basel II

Towards Basel III: New Capital and Liquidity Standards by 2012 With Long Transition Period

Europe : North America : Finance and Banking : Geostrategic and Long Term Issues : Banks and Risk Management :

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Guarantee Programs

Banks' Dash to Short-Term Financing: What is the Rollover Risk?

United States : North America : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management : Financial Systems and Regulation :

Securitization

Financial Innovation and Securitizations: What Prospects after Reintermediation in 2010?

The Case Against Fix Retention Rules in Securitizations: BIS and IMF Global Financial Stability Report, Chapter II

United States : North America : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management : Capital Market Intermediaries : Securitization and Structured Finance :

Mark-To-Market Accounting

FAS 140 Revision Leads to Re-Intermeditation of up to US$900 Billion in Off-Balance-Sheet Vehicles Starting in 2010

New IASB/FASB Proposals Expand Fair Value Accounting: A Step Forward?

United States : Advanced Economies : North America : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

U.S. Stress Tests and Additional Capital Needs

IMF Reduces Global Loss Estimate to US$3.4 Trillion

Stress Test Results: Banks Raise $65 Billion in Common Stock and Convert $20 Billion of Preferred Stock to Meet Requirement

United States : North America : Finance and Banking : Banks and Risk Management :

RGE Analysis

Global Banking: After a Banner Year, a 2010 Reckoning?

By Jennifer Kapila Jan 21, 2010

The Greece Dilemma: Sovereign Debts Imperiling the Euro and Challenging EU Ties

By Arnab Das, Elisa Parisi-Capone and Natalia Gurushina Jan 19, 2010

Come to Mother: An RGE Strategy for the 2010 Carry Trade

Arnab Das, Natalia Gurushina, Jennifer Kapila, Elisa Parisi-Capone Jan 04, 2010

CoCos: No Antidote to Go-Go Boom-Bust Cycles

By Jennifer Kapila and Arnab Das Dec 08, 2009

How Much Are Eurozone Banking Systems Borrowing from the ECB?

By Elisa Parisi-Capone Dec 03, 2009

Comparing Three Crises

Mikka Pineda Sep 09, 2009

Turkey's Banking Sector: Picture of Health

Mary Stokes and David Rogovic Aug 05, 2009

UK Banking Sector Reforms: Merits and Uncertainties

Salman Ahmed Aug 04, 2009

East Asian Bank Sector Reform Since 1997

Mikka Pineda Jul 22, 2009

Swedish Banks: Could They Get Burned by Heavy Baltic Exposure?

Mary Stokes and David Rogovic Jun 24, 2009

The Systemic Effects of Countrywide Going Bust…

Nouriel Roubini May 21, 2009

Will a "Bad Bank" Provide a Solution to Kuwait's Financial Woes?

Ayah el Said and Rachel Ziemba May 17, 2009

Are Australian Banks Better Off Than Those in the U.S. and EU?

Mikka Pineda May 14, 2009

Stress-Testing Islamic Finance

Ayah el Said and Rachel Ziemba May 10, 2009

Ten Reasons Why the Stress Tests Are "Schmess" Tests and Why the Current Muddle-Through Approach to the Bank Crisis May Not Succeed

Nouriel Roubini May 08, 2009

It is Time for a Special Insolvency Regime for Systemically Important Financial Institutions (Non-Bank Financial Firms and Bank Holding Companies)

Nouriel Roubini Mar 25, 2009

How Low Can the Stock Markets Go? Much Lower

Nouriel Roubini Mar 09, 2009

Eastern Europe: The Makings of a Cross-Border Banking Nightmare?

Mary Stokes Feb 23, 2009

Post Mortem - Lehman CDS Settlement: US$360 Billion or US$6 Billion?

Elisa Parisi-Capone Oct 23, 2008

Lehman CDS Payout on October 21: $360 Billion or $6 Billion?

Elisa Parisi-Capone Oct 15, 2008

Revisiting my February Paper “The Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown: The 12 Steps to Financial Disaster”… and Some New Policy Recommendations to Avoid the Meltdown

Nouriel Roubini Oct 08, 2008

The Fed Keeps on Wasting Time While the Mother of All Bank Runs is Underway

Nouriel Roubini Oct 06, 2008

Financial and Corporate System is in Cardiac Arrest: The Risk of the Mother of All Bank Runs

Nouriel Roubini Oct 03, 2008

The U.S. and Global Financial Crisis is Becoming Much More Severe in Spite of the Treasury Rescue Plan. The Risk of a Total Systemic Meltdown is Now as High as Ever

Nouriel Roubini Sep 29, 2008

Is Purchasing $700 billion of Toxic Assets the Best Way to Recapitalize the Financial System? No! It is Rather a Disgrace and Rip-Off Benefitting only the Shareholders and Unsecured Creditors of Banks

Nouriel Roubini Sep 28, 2008

The Demise of the Shadow Banking System

Elisa Parisi-Capone Sep 24, 2008

HOME (Home Owners’ Mortgage Enterprise): A 10 Step Plan to Resolve the Financial Crisis

Nouriel Roubini Sep 24, 2008

The Unraveling of the Shadow Banking System Moves to Hedge Funds as Schmalpha Replaces Alpha

Nouriel Roubini Sep 23, 2008

If Lehman Collapses, Expect a Run on All of the Other Broker Deals and the Collapse of the Shadow Banking System

Nouriel Roubini Sep 17, 2008

Who is Going to Rescue the Hundreds of Busted U.S. Banks? Don’t Count on Suckering Again the Foreign Governments (the Sovereign Wealth Funds). And the Biggest Fire Sale in the History of Humanity…

Nouriel Roubini Jul 25, 2008

The Coming Systemic Bust of the U.S. Banking System: “Dead Stocks Rallying”

Nouriel Roubini Jul 20, 2008

Insolvency of the Fannie and Freddie Predicted Here Two Years Ago. What Happens Next? Or How to Avoid the “Mother of All Bailouts”

Nouriel Roubini Jul 11, 2008

The Delusional Complacency That the "Worst is Behind Us" is Rapidly Melting Away... and the Risk of Another Run Against Systemically Important Broker Dealers

Nouriel Roubini Jun 27, 2008

Editor's Pick: Rising Tigers of the Chinese Banking Sector

Rachel Ziemba Mar 31, 2008

Ten Fundamental Issues in Reforming Financial Regulation and Supervision in a World of Financial Innovation and Globalization

Nouriel Roubini Mar 31, 2008

Can the Fed and Policy Makers Avoid a Systemic Financial Meltdown? Most Likely Not.

Nouriel Roubini Feb 08, 2008

The Rising Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown: The Twelve Steps to Disaster

Nouriel Roubini Feb 05, 2008

EconoMonitors

Finance & Markets Monitor

Bank Securitization Woes Only the Beginning

Yves Smith Feb 8, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Goldman Sachs vs AIG

Barry Ritholtz Feb 8, 2010

US EconoMonitor

Who's Killing Financial Reform

Robert Reich Feb 8, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Another View: Looking Beyond the Volcker Rule

Daniel Alpert Feb 5, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Debunking Some AIG/FED/CDO Theories

Yves Smith Feb 5, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Causation Analysis: What “But Fors” Caused the Crisis ?

Barry Ritholtz Feb 5, 2010

Emerging Markets Monitor

Chanos: “We’re Not Calling for an Impending Crash of China”

Edward Harrison Feb 4, 2010

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Impulse and Propagation Mechanisms and Regulatory Reform

Joseph Mason Feb 3, 2010

RGE Analysts' EconoMonitor

RGE's Wednesday Note - Obama’s Recent Regulatory and Fiscal Proposals

Elisa Parisi-Capone, Parul Walia, and Arpitha Bykere Feb 3, 2010

Emerging Markets Monitor

Stiglitz’s New Book and the Developing Countries

Otaviano Canuto Feb 2, 2010

US EconoMonitor

Volcker Rule: Dead on Arrival? And is Obama a Lame Duck?

Yves Smith Feb 2, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Populism

Simon Johnson Jan 31, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Volcker Rule Chatter

Barry Ritholtz Jan 31, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

The CEO Pay Slice

Lucian Bebchuk Jan 29, 2010

Peterson Institute for International Economics Monitor

The Financial System: Heading for More Trouble

Steve Weisman and Simon Johnson Jan 28, 2010

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Botox Cures – Part 2

Satyajit Das Jan 28, 2010

US EconoMonitor

Obama's Tiny Jobs Ideas for Main Street, a Big Spending Freeze for Wall Street

Robert Reich Jan 27, 2010

Emerging Markets Monitor

The Myth of China's Blithe Consensus

Michael Pettis Jan 26, 2010

US EconoMonitor

The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant

Models & Agents Jan 26, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Bailouts: Catching a Falling Knife

Edward Harrison Jan 25, 2010

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Botox Cures – Part 1

Satyajit Das Jan 25, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Is the “Volcker Rule” More than a Marketing Slogan?

Simon Johnson Jan 24, 2010

US EconoMonitor

What the "I'm Mad-As-Hell" Party Could Do

Robert Reich Jan 24, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Did Brown’s Win Spark Obama’s War on Wall Street?

Edward Harrison Jan 22, 2010

Europe EconoMonitor

Does Anyone Really Know the Size of the Greek 2009 Deficit?

Edward Hugh Jan 22, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Clearly this is Their First Rodeo

Mark Thoma Jan 22, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Secretary Geithner Needs to Get with the Program

Simon Johnson Jan 22, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Please, Listen to the Man

Daniel Alpert Jan 21, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Why Obama is Now (finally) Getting Tough on Wall Street

Robert Reich Jan 21, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Obama to Propose Rules to Restrict Proprietary Trading

Yves Smith Jan 21, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Obama Proposes Volcker-Style Financial Reform

Mark Thoma Jan 21, 2010

Emerging Markets Monitor

Good Numbers? Or Bad Numbers?

Michael Pettis Jan 21, 2010

Europe EconoMonitor

Spain Gets Frobbed-Off by the EU Commission

Edward Hugh Jan 20, 2010

US EconoMonitor

Who Bears the Costs of Post-Crisis Recovery ?

Barry Ritholtz Jan 20, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Taxing Bailed-Out Financial Institutions

Mark Thoma Jan 20, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Breaking the Banks

Rick Bookstaber Jan 20, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Why Banks Should Clean up their House and How they Can Take Advantage of the Opportunity of Modern Times

Carlo Resta Jan 18, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Does Conventional Wisdom Miss the Boat on Banker Bonuses?

Rene Stulz Jan 15, 2010

US EconoMonitor

Why Obama Must Take On Wall Street

Robert Reich Jan 13, 2010

US EconoMonitor

Will We Get ''Sensible, Comprehensive Financial Reform"?

Mark Thoma Jan 13, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

The Outlook for 2010: Bank Failures and Bank Losses Ahead

Joseph Mason Jan 12, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

More from "The Lion"

James Kwak Jan 12, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission: Ready For A Breakthrough

Simon Johnson Jan 12, 2010

US EconoMonitor

The Most Stunning (and Uncommented on) Revelation in Too Big Too Fail

Yves Smith Jan 11, 2010

US EconoMonitor

The Case for a Supertax on Big Bank Bonuses

Simon Johnson Jan 11, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Regulators Seek to Throw Light on Hedge Fund Impact in Energy Trading

Darrell Delamaide Jan 11, 2010

Asia EconoMonitor

The Chinese Bubble Economy

Edward Harrison Jan 11, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Error vs. Fraud

Alex Pollock Jan 8, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

An Entente Cordiale for the Big Banks?

Roy C. Smith and Ingo Walter Jan 8, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Don’t Forget Financial Sector Reform

John Lipsky Jan 7, 2010

RGE Analysts' EconoMonitor

Dodd Unbound

Michael Moran Jan 6, 2010

Global Macro EconoMonitor

"All Serious Economists Agree"

Simon Johnson Jan 6, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

Yet More Financial Innovation

James Kwak Jan 5, 2010

US EconoMonitor

No to Bernanke

James Kwak Jan 4, 2010

US EconoMonitor

Bernanke Still Does Not Understand Credit Crisis

Barry Ritholtz Jan 4, 2010

Emerging Markets Monitor

China New Year, and One More Vote for GDP-Adjusted Bonds

Michael Pettis Jan 4, 2010

Finance & Markets Monitor

On Goldman’s (and Now Morgan Stanley’s) Deceptive Synthetic CDO Practices

Yves Smith Dec 30, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

More Pain Yet to Rain on Spain?

Jennifer Kapila Dec 30, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

The Fairness of Financial Rescue

Mark Thoma Dec 29, 2009

Europe EconoMonitor

Hungary's Economic Correction Still Fails to Convince

Edward Hugh Dec 29, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Change the Bathwater, Keep the Baby

David E. Altig Dec 28, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Pomboy: A Looming New Credit-Bust

Barry Ritholtz Dec 28, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

The Pace of Change

Michael Pettis Dec 28, 2009

US EconoMonitor

2009: The Year Wall Street Bounced Back and Main Street Got Shafted

Robert Reich Dec 28, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Should Investment Firms Bet Against Their Clients?

Barry Ritholtz Dec 24, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Who Should be Bailed Out?

Lucian Bebchuk Dec 21, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Is Investment Depressed by an "Anti-Business" Climate?

Jeffrey Frankel Dec 21, 2009

US EconoMonitor

It’s Certainly Not for a Lack of Effort

Simon Johnson Dec 21, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Ben and his Avatar

Models & Agents Dec 21, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

China Bank Fraud Shock - Not

China Economist Dec 16, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Wake Up, Gentlemen

Simon Johnson Dec 15, 2009

Europe EconoMonitor

Bank Collapse in Austria Brings Debt in Eastern Europe Center Stage

Edward Harrison Dec 15, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Investors Should Control Financial Regulation

Ann Lee Dec 15, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Obama and the Fat Cat Bankers

Edward Harrison Dec 14, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Too Big to File Suit?

Mark Thoma Dec 14, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Drug Money Saved Banks in Global Crisis?

Yves Smith Dec 13, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

FDIC Bank Failures

Barry Ritholtz Dec 13, 2009

US EconoMonitor

We Face a Real Challenge in Dealing with that Feeling that the Crisis is Over

Mark Thoma Dec 13, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Matt Taibbi: Obama’s Big Sellout

Edward Harrison Dec 11, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Too Important to Fail?

Jose Vinals Dec 9, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Another Rescue Plan Comes in Below the Original Price Tag

David E. Altig Dec 9, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Gerry Corrigan’s Case for Large Integrated Financial Groups

Simon Johnson Dec 9, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Non-Reform of Rating Agencies

Yves Smith Dec 8, 2009

RGE Analysts' EconoMonitor

CoCos: No Antidote to Go-Go Boom-Bust Cycles

Jennifer Kapila and Arnab Das Dec 8, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Stiglitz: Too Big to Live

Mark Thoma Dec 8, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Too Efficient NOT to Consolidate

Rebecca Wilder Dec 7, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Bankers had Cashed in Before the Music Stopped

Lucian Bebchuk Dec 7, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

The Importance of Capital Requirements

James Kwak Dec 7, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Measuring the Fiscal Costs of Not Fixing the Financial System

Simon Johnson Dec 7, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Did Bank Executives Lose Enough to Learn their Lesson?

Mark Thoma Dec 7, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Deposits in Failed Banks as a Percent of GDP

Mark Thoma Dec 6, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Reaching for Yield in the Post-TARP Era

Edward Harrison Dec 4, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Going Beyond the Rules

Jose Vinals Dec 2, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Prompt Corrective Action for All is Unnecessary and Unworkable

Joseph Mason Dec 1, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Housing Crisis and Wall Street Shame

Robert Reich Nov 30, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

Repairing China’s Financial System

Michael Pettis Nov 30, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Details

James Kwak Nov 30, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Independent Does Not Mean Unaccountable

Mark Thoma Nov 29, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Total Eclipse at the Heart of Dubai's World

Edward Hugh Nov 29, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

The Bust in Dubai and Exogenous Shocks

Edward Harrison Nov 29, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Does Dubai Matter? Ask Ireland

Simon Johnson Nov 29, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Morgan Stanley Speaks: Against Relying On Capital Requirements

Simon Johnson Nov 24, 2009

US EconoMonitor

British Regulators Disclose Terms of Emergency Aid During Panic of 2008

Edward Harrison Nov 24, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Taming the Stock Option Game

Lucian Bebchuk Nov 23, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

TBTF is not about Size, it's about Information

Joseph Mason Nov 20, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The AIG-Maiden Lane III Controversy

James Kwak Nov 20, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Slow Cat, Fast Mouse

James Kwak Nov 18, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Note to Jamie Dimon: Repeating Something Doesn’t Make It True

James Kwak Nov 13, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Crisis Inevitably Breeds Leviathan

Joseph Mason Nov 11, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Senate Bill Would Break-Up TBTF Banks

Barry Ritholtz Nov 9, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

The Zombies are Coming... Again

Christian Menegatti and Elisa Parisi-Capone Nov 9, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Does Financial Innovation Promote Economic Growth?

Rick Bookstaber Nov 4, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Too-Big-To-Fail: Regulatory Reforms of Systemically Important Institutions

Elisa Parisi-Capone Nov 4, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

How Goldman Bet on a Housing Crash

Barry Ritholtz Nov 3, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Britain To Break Up Biggest Banks

Simon Johnson Nov 3, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

The Next Step in the Bank Explosion Cycle???

Reggie Middleton Oct 28, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Has the US Financial System been Nationalized?

Fabius Maximus Oct 28, 2009

Europe EconoMonitor

Beyond the Consensus on European Bank Credit

Edward Hugh Oct 28, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

Oil Prices and Bank Profitability: Evidence from Major Oil-Exporting Countries in the Middle East and North Africa

Heiko Hesse and Tigran Poghosyan Oct 27, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Reserve Accumulation and Easy Money Helped to Cause the Subprime Crisis

Mark Thoma Oct 27, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Patchwork Fixes, Conflicting Motives, And Other Things To Avoid: Some Lessons From the Regulated Non-Financial Sectors

Simon Johnson Oct 25, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Too Big to Fail: Why The Big Banks Should Be Broken Up, But Why The White House and Congress Don't Want To

Robert Reich Oct 25, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Why Do Bankers Make So Much Money?

Rick Bookstaber Oct 23, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Why Wall Street Reform is Stuck in Reverse

Robert Reich Oct 23, 2009

Europe EconoMonitor

King on the Banks

David Smith Oct 21, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Why Would Anyone Believe Bank Earnings Yet?

Joseph Mason Oct 20, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Is the WH Finally Taking Regulatory Reform Seriously?

Barry Ritholtz Oct 19, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Something is Wrong with Wall Street

Mark Thoma Oct 19, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Public Trust has Economic Consequences

Mark Thoma Oct 16, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Banking System Is Still Broken

Ann Lee Oct 16, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Reducing Incentives for Risk-Taking

Lucian Bebchuk Oct 13, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Problem with Financial Services Compensation (AIG/Pay Czar Edition)

Yves Smith Oct 12, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Who Needs Big Banks?

James Kwak Oct 12, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Banking Lessons We Should Have Learned

Daniel Alpert Oct 7, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

The IMF Warns about Surplus Countries and Global Imbalances

Michael Pettis Oct 6, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Why Sheila Bair’s Remarks about Repos are Really, Really Important

Joseph Mason Oct 6, 2009

RGE Analysts' EconoMonitor

Eurozone Bank Loss Estimates

Salman Ahmed and Elisa Parisi-Capone Oct 6, 2009

Europe EconoMonitor

Tales of a Two-Tier Money Market

Aurelio Maccario Oct 5, 2009

US EconoMonitor

TARP Losses: $100-200B (And Counting…)

Barry Ritholtz Oct 5, 2009

US EconoMonitor

An Inside Look at How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the Senate

Mark Thoma Sep 30, 2009

US EconoMonitor

TALF as a Permanent Lender of Last Resort

Joseph Mason Sep 29, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

Is There a Future for the Bank?

Roberto Tamborini Sep 29, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

Chinese Credit Policy: Is Fine-Tuning Prompting Too Much of a Property Boom?

Adam Wolfe and Rachel Ziemba Sep 29, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The CFPA does not need Preemption

Joseph Mason Sep 25, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 even when Consumers Can't Buy and Business Cries "Socialism"

Robert Reich Sep 23, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

The Design of Financial Regulation in the G20 Debate: Tata or Ferrari?

Agnes Benassy-Quere and Olena Havrylchyk Sep 22, 2009

Europe EconoMonitor

The ECB's Deposit Facility and its Guard Against Inflation - Euro Thoughts Sep. 21-25, 2009 - UniCredit Group

Aurelio Maccario Sep 21, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Bloomberg News is still after the Fed for more disclosure

Edward Harrison Sep 21, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Ongoing Credit Agency End Game

Barry Ritholtz Sep 18, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Crimes [May Have Been] Committed

Ethan S. Burger Sep 18, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The 7 Habits of Highly Suspicious Hedge Funds

Rick Bookstaber Sep 18, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Mark-to-Make Believe

Satyajit Das Sep 18, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Regulation in Defense of Capitalism

Rick Bookstaber Sep 17, 2009

Europe EconoMonitor

How Will The ECB Ever Manage To Stop Funding Spanish Government Debt?

Edward Hugh Sep 16, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

Bank Rossii Eases Further as Russia's Economy Contracts at a Record Rate

Edward Hugh Sep 16, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Those Who Really Saw the Crisis Coming also Know How it Ends

Joseph Mason Sep 16, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Educated Guesses on the Upcoming ECB Auction and Thoughts on some Crisis Legends... - Euro Thoughts Sep 13-18 2009

Aurelio Maccario Sep 16, 2009

Nouriel Roubini's EconoMonitor

Roubini Video Interview on Forbes.com

Nouriel Roubini Sep 15, 2009

RGE Analysts' EconoMonitor

RGE Monitor - Lehman Anniversary - What's Different? What's the Same?

Elisa Parisi-Capone Sep 15, 2009

US EconoMonitor

No Accounting for Taste

Satyajit Das Sep 14, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Any Objective Review Shows that the Big Banks are Simply too Big for the Safety of this Country

Reggie Middleton Sep 14, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Free Market Day (but just a day)

Barry Ritholtz Sep 14, 2009

Nouriel Roubini's EconoMonitor

Roubini Interview on CNBC's Squawk Box

Nouriel Roubini Sep 14, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year Later

Robert Reich Sep 14, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Goldman Sachs vs. Chinese Banks

Ann Lee Sep 11, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Containing Systemic Risk: Are Regulatory Reform Proposals on the Right Track?

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize Sep 9, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Why Financial Pay Shouldn’t be Left to the Market

Lucian Bebchuk Sep 9, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Consumer Credit will Come Back when the Labor Market Turns

Rebecca Wilder Sep 9, 2009

US EconoMonitor

1930s Déjà Vu

Prieur du Plessis Sep 9, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Bernstein: America “Practically Invites Another Catastrophe”

Edward Harrison Sep 8, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Guest Blog: Financial Crisis and Reform Déjà Vu

Menzie Chinn Sep 8, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Keeping Us There

Barry Ritholtz Sep 6, 2009

Global Macro EconoMonitor

G-20 Agrees to Agree on Tougher Bank Capital Rules, Bonus Limits

Yves Smith Sep 6, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Wait for Financial Reform

Mark Thoma Sep 6, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Serious Credit Crunch Remains; and it Will Until the Labor Market Turns

Rebecca Wilder Sep 6, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Sheila Bair and the Case Against a Super-Regulator

Edward Harrison Sep 4, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

More on the FDIC as a Catalyst

Reggie Middleton Sep 1, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Political Significance of the UBS "Settlement"

Ethan S. Burger Aug 31, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Bailout Profits? Don’t Make Me Laugh!

Barry Ritholtz Aug 31, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

It’s Not Yet the End of China’s Massive Stimulus

Michael Pettis Aug 31, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

The Credibility of Farmers, Priests and Prostitutes – and Bankers?

Michael Pettis Aug 27, 2009

Finance & Markets Monitor

Bonus Guarantees Can Fuel Risky Moves

Lucian Bebchuk Aug 27, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Which Bernanke? Whose Bubble?

Simon Johnson Aug 25, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Court: Fed Must Make Loan Info Public

Barry Ritholtz Aug 25, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Why This New Crisis Needs a New Paradigm of Economic Thought

Mark Thoma Aug 25, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Market-Perceived Monetary Policy Rule

James Hamilton Aug 24, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Fun with Derivatives

James Kwak Aug 24, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Odd WSJ Story on Vermont

Tim Duy Aug 19, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

A Revolution is Not a Dinner Party. Thoughts about the Future of China

Fabius Maximus Aug 19, 2009

Peterson Institute for International Economics Monitor

A Step Forward on Financial Regulation

Morris Goldstein and Steve Weisman Aug 17, 2009

US EconoMonitor

A CFPA Research Brief

James Kwak Aug 17, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Clawbacks Coming?

Barry Ritholtz Aug 17, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Fact, Fiction and Farce and Lies! What happened to the Bank?

Reggie Middleton Aug 14, 2009

Emerging Markets Monitor

Resilient Lebanon Defies Odds In Face of Global Crisis

Harald Finger and Carlo Sdralevich Aug 14, 2009

Peterson Institute for International Economics Monitor

Systemic Risk: Are Some Institutions Too Big to Fail and If So, What Should We Do about It?

Simon Johnson Aug 12, 2009

US EconoMonitor

A Window into the Hidden Workings of our Financial System

Fabius Maximus Aug 12, 2009

US EconoMonitor

The Green Shoots that are Healthy don’t Taste Good to many Administration Officials

Joseph Mason Aug 11, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Judge Takes SEC and Bank of America Lawyers to Woodshed Over Merril Bonus Settlement

Yves Smith Aug 11, 2009

US EconoMonitor

Failed Banks List Still Surprises

Rebecca Wilder Aug 10, 2009

Daily Digest

Analysis

Q4 2009 Preliminary Bank Stress Ratings; OTC Derivatives: Is the DTCC Too Big To Fail?

Institutional Risk Analyst  Feb 9, 2010

Research

It Pays to Violate: How Effective are the Basel Accord Penalties in Encouraging Risk Management?

SSRN  Michael McAleer, Bernardo Da Veiga and Felix Chan Jan 12, 2010

Analysis

Australian, New Zealand Banks Remain Sound During Global Crisis

IMF  Patrizia Tumbarello Jan 22, 2010

Analysis

The Outlook for European Bank Lending in 2010 - Growth, Changing Strategies and Impact on Ratings of Major Banks

Fitch Ratings (free registration required)  Janine Dow et al Feb 9, 2010

News

Uganda lending rates a hurdle as Common Market nears

East African Business Week  Feb 9, 2010

News

China Jan Loans Above CNY1.3 Tln; Feb Below CNY1 Tln

Market News International  Feb 8, 2010

Research

In the wake of the crisis: dealing with distressed debt across the transition region

EBRD  Feb 1, 2010

Analysis

Regulators take aim at unrealised derivatives profits

Risk.net  Duncan Wood Feb 8, 2010

Blogs

S&P: US banks back from the brink but mortgages still a problem

Research Recap / S&P  Feb 3, 2010

Blogs

Moody’s continues to have longer term concerns about banks with outsized CRE concentrations

Research Recap / Moody's  Feb 5, 2010

Blogs

US CMBS delinquency rate hits 6%, and is headed higher

Research Recap  Feb 5, 2010

Blogs

Bank Securitization Woes Only Beginning

naked capitalism  Feb 8, 2010

News

China mortgage rates up as loan clampdown bites

Reuters  Feb 8, 2010

Blogs

Anatomy of distress in European banks before and during the crisis

VoxEU  Tigran Poghosyan and Martin Cihák Feb 8, 2010

News

Japanese Bank Lending Declines Most in Four Years

Bloomberg  Finbarr Flynn Feb 8, 2010

Analysis

Principal Figures of Financial Institutions (January 2010)

Bank of Japan  Feb 8, 2010

Blogs

Tax banks to discourage systemic-risk creation, not to fund bailouts

VoxEU  Enrico Perotti Feb 7, 2010

Analysis

Safe and sound banking: a role for countercyclical regulatory requirements ?

World Bank  Gerard and Jr. Caprio Feb 1, 2010

Blogs

Credit Risk Chronicles: FDIC Proposes Tough-Minded Securitization Reforms; Industry Howls

Credit Risk Chronicles  Cormick Grimshaw Feb 2, 2010

Blogs

CPDOs, a structured finance post-mortem

Credit Risk Chronicles / FT Alphaville  Feb 5, 2010

Research

Constant Proportion Debt Obligations: A Post-Mortem Analysis of Rating Models

Federal Reserve Board  Michael B. Gordy and Sren Willemann Feb 6, 2010

Analysis

SIFMA SmartBrief Special Report: Derivatives Clearing and Settlement

Credit Risk Chronicles  Feb 6, 2010

News

U.S. Mortgage-Bond Market May Revive, Executives Say

Bloomberg  Jody Shenn Feb 5, 2010

News

PH: Cooperative Banks’ NPL Ratio Stands at 8.63 Percent

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas  Feb 5, 2010

News

PH: Rural Banks’ NPL Ratio Improves to 10.58 Percent

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas  Feb 5, 2010

News

PH: Thrift Banks Post 8.44% NPL Ratio in Q3 2009

Morgan Stanley  Feb 5, 2010

Analysis

Status of banks'non-performing loans as of end-September 2009

Financial Services Agency  Feb 5, 2010

Analysis

Standards for payment, clearing and settlement systems: review by CPSS-IOSCO

BIS  Feb 5, 2010

Analysis

Who matters in the world’s second-largest financial system is barely understood

The Economist  Feb 5, 2010

News

China Defaulting Loans Soar, Insolvency Lawyer Says

Bloomberg  Feb 5, 2010

News

End of TALF Means Bond Spreads Fivefold Wider: Credit Markets

Bloomberg  Sarah Mulholland Feb 4, 2010

Research

Systemic Risks and the Macroeconomy

IMF  Gianni De Nicolò and Marcella Lucchetta Feb 4, 2010

Analysis

Fitch: Lehman Rulings May Impact Structured Finance Transactions Globally

FitchRatings (free registration)  Feb 4, 2010

News

MOF to inject capital into Bank of Communications

China Daily  Feb 4, 2010

Opinions

How to rescue a bank without regret

Eurointelligence  Reint Gropp and Jan Pieter Krahnen Feb 4, 2010

Analysis

Fair Value Accounting: Villain or Innocent Victim?

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston  Sanders Shaffer Feb 1, 2010

Research

Epanechnikov Kernel Estimation of Value-at-Risk

SSRN  Ravi Agarwal and Vignesh R Feb 3, 2010

Analysis

Credit Risk Chronicles: Opposition Mounts To CME Group's Credit Derivatives Clearing

Credit Risk Chronicles  Cormick Grimshaw Feb 3, 2010

Opinions

US Sovereign Debt Aaa Rating at risk in next decade without further budget action

Research Recap  Feb 3, 2010

News

Citigroup flags Asia revenue growth

FT  Sundeep Tucker Feb 3, 2010

Research

Recovery Determinants of Distressed Banks: Regulators, Market Discipline, or the Environment?

IMF  Michael Koetter, Thomas Kick and Tigran Poghosyan Feb 3, 2010

News

Two Chinese Banks Downgraded

Wall Street Journal  Feb 3, 2010

News

Goldman halted market-making on YRC after empty creditor claim

Risk.net  Duncan Wood and Christopher Whittall Feb 2, 2010

Blogs

Shadow bank losses

FT Alpahville  Tracy Alloway Feb 2, 2010

Analysis

Banks in Asia (Excluding Japan): Outlook for 2010

Fitch Ratings (free registration required)  David Marshall et al Feb 2, 2010

Opinions

If banks can’t borrow, they won’t be able to fail

Times  Laurence Kotlikoff Feb 2, 2010

Analysis

GSE losses could stand at $448bn, Amherst says

FT Alphaville  Tracy Alloway Feb 1, 2010

News

FSA's Lord Turner signals crackdown on carry trade

Telegraph  Jeremy Warner Feb 1, 2010

Blogs

Fed: Banks Cease Tightening Standards, Loan Demand Weakens Further

Calculated Risk  Jan 1, 2010

Analysis

SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress, January 30, 2010

SIGTARP Office of the Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)  Neil Barofsky et al Feb 1, 2010

Blogs

US credit card delinquencies stabilize but unemployment expected to boost chargeoff rate

Research Recap / FitchRatings  Feb 1, 2010

News

Venezuela Sets New Brokerage Rules After Bank Scandal (Update1)

Business Week  Daniel Cancel and Corina Rodriguez Pons Feb 1, 2010

Analysis

Turkey Political & Economic Update: The recovery is on the way; Inflation has turned north

DenizBank  Feb 1, 2010

Analysis

Too interconnected to fail = too big to fail: What’s in a leverage ratio?

CEPS  Feb 1, 2010

News

New credit hits $234b in January

China Daily  Feb 1, 2010

Analysis

What Toronto can teach New York and London

Financial Times  Chrystia Freeland Jan 29, 2010

News

President Nicolas Sarkozy's World Economic Forum Speech

Elysee Palace  Nicolas Sarkozy Jan 27, 2010

Analysis

A Primer on Bank Capital

Brookings Institute  Jan 28, 2010

News

UPDATE 1-Chile bank system profit up 14 pct in Dec vs Nov

Reuters  Chizu Nomiyama and Antonio de la Jara Jan 29, 2010

News

Sarkozy: Globalization Got Out of Control

Wall Street Journal  Geoffrey T. Smith and Alessandra Galloni Jan 27, 2010

Opinions

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows

Bloomberg  David Reilly Jan 29, 2010

Blogs

Wall St. Tries to Put a Price on Volcker Rule

DealBook  Cyrus Sanati Jan 29, 2010

RGE Writings

Bremmer-Roubini 2010 Global Forecast

RGE Analysts' EconoMonitor  Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer Jan 28, 2010

Opinions

Value at risk

Financial Times  Lex Jan 29, 2010

News

Russia Bank Risks Underestimated, Deutsche Bank’s Kommers Says

Bloomberg  Laura Cochrane Jan 28, 2010

News

U. K. Banking System Faces Long Haul To Rebuild Reputation And Strong Credit Profile, Report Says

Standard and Poors  Jan 28, 2010

Analysis

From bail-out to bail-in: Proposing a new process for resolving failing banks

Economist  Paul Calello and Wilson Ervin Jan 28, 2010

Blogs

European banks need €83bn

FT Alphaville  Neil Hume Jan 27, 2010

Analysis

Stop the Presses!

GMO  Jeremy Grantham Jan 21, 2010

Research

Filtering and Incomplete Information in Credit Risk

Default Risk  Jan 27, 2010

News

BDDK Weighs Increase in Private Capital Limit for New Turkish Banks

Today's Zaman  Jan 27, 2010

News

ICBC Says Loan Growth ‘Stabilized,’ Will Lend to State Projects

Bloomberg  Jan 27, 2010

News

Banks Reviving Synthetic Bets as Volcker Blasts Default Swaps

Bloomberg  Shannon D. Harrington and Pierre Paulden Jan 26, 2010

Opinions

Still Needed: A Sheriff of Finance

New York Times  Andrew Ross Sorkin Jan 25, 2010

Analysis

A better way to reduce financial sector risk

Financial Times  Raghuram Rajan Jan 25, 2010

Analysis

GCC banks 2010: restored confidence, improved balance sheets, and official backing support the outlook for regional banks (Part 1)

National Bank of Kuwait  Mohammed Zaher Jan 20, 2010

News

Turkish Banking Sector to Offer over 10,000 Jobs

Hurriyet  Jan 26, 2010

News

Bank of China, Construction Bank Start Curbing Credit

Bloomberg  Jan 26, 2010

Research

Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity

NBER  Viral V. Acharya Hyun Song Shin Tanju Yorulmazer Dec 1, 2009

Research

Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing

NBER  Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny Jan 25, 2010

Analysis

Compensation Principles and Standards Assessment Methodology

BIS  Jan 25, 2010

Analysis

Cloudy with a Chance of Torrential Credit

Century Weekly  Wen Xiu and Fang Huilei Jan 25, 2010

Research

How Well Does the Vasicek-Basel AIRB Model Fit the Data? Evidence from a Long Time Series of Corporate Credit Rating Data

FDIC Speeches & Testimony  Paul H. Kupiec Jan 25, 2010

Research

Interaction between market and credit risk: Focus on the endogeneity of aggregate risk

Repec  Yuri Sokolov Jan 25, 2010

Research

Credit Risk Transfer and Bank Competition

SSRN  Isabel Schnabel and Hendrik Hakenes Jan 25, 1900

News

Bank of China Plans Huge Capital Boost

Wall Street Journal  Jan 25, 2010

Analysis

Assessing the systemic risk of a heterogeneous portfolio of banks during the recent financial crisis

BIS  Haibin Zhu, Hao Zhou and Xin Huang Jan 22, 2010

News

Modeling Assumptions behind the ISDA CDS Standard Model

Credit Risk Chronicles / FinCad  Jan 21, 2010

Analysis

In depth: Obama and Wall Street

Financial Times  Jan 22, 2010

News

Exchanges face threat from loss of liquidity

Financial Times  Jeremy Grant Jan 22, 2010

News

Meredith Whitney Predicts Obama Bank Plan Will Pass

Bloomberg  Lynn Thomasson and David Merritt Jan 22, 2010

Blogs

Glass-Steagal, Part Deux

Paul Krugman's Blog  Jan 21, 2010

Analysis

So, What Does This Obama Stuff Really Mean for the Big Banks? You Know, From a Fundamental Perspective

Zero Hedge  Reggie Middleton Jan 22, 2010

Blogs

The market-maker problem

FT Alphaville  Izabella Kaminska Jan 22, 2010

Analysis

Credit Default Swaps

DB  Christian Weistroffer Jan 22, 2010

Research

Safe and Sound Banking: A Role for Countercyclical Regulatory Requirements?

Institute for International Integration Studies  Gerard Caprio Dec 22, 2009

News

Goldman Sachs Calls Idea of Dropping Bank Status ‘Unrealistic’

Bloomberg  Christine Harper Jan 22, 2010

Blogs

That Goldman hit: Trading revenues accounted for 59-69% of total revenues in 2009

FT Alphaville  Tracy Alloway Jan 22, 2010

Opinions

Reforming banking: Base camp Basel

Economist  Jan 21, 2010

Analysis

JP: Fund Demand and Bank Lending Slump, in Contrast to One Year Ago

Mitsubishi UFJ  Jun Ishii Jan 22, 2010

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