Showing posts with label banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banks. Show all posts
Monday, April 5, 2021

5/4/21: The Coming Wave of Financial Repression

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  In a recent article for The Currency , I covered the topic of the forthcoming wave of financial repression, as Governments worldwide pursu...
Monday, June 1, 2020

1/6/20: COVID19 and European Banking

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McKinsey research note on European banks' potential losses due to COVID19 is quite on the money: With more than 1/3rd of European...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

8/1/20: Creative destruction and consumer credit

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My new article for @TheCurrency_, titled "Creative destruction and consumer credit: A Fintech song for the Irish banks" is out. ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

10/12/19: Irish Banks: Part 2

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Continuing with the coverage of the Irish banks, in the second article for The Currency , available here:  https://www.thecurrency.news/ar...

10/12/19: Irish Banks: Part 1

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Returning back to the blog after a break, some updates on recent published work. In the first article on Irish banking for The Currency,...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

1/9/19: Priming the Bubble Pump: Extreme Credit Accommodation in the U.S.

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Using Chicago Fed National Financial Conditions Credit Subindex (weekly, not seasonally adjusted data), I have plotted credit conditions m...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

18/08/18: Euromoney on Italian Banking Risks and Turkey Crisis

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Euromoney article on the latent Italian crisis, relative to the ongoing Turkish one:  https://www.euromoney.com/article/b19k3zjb7v811r/ita...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

30/11/17: Efficiency of Enforcement vs Volume of Regulation

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Yesterday, in our class on Economics, we talked about the distinction between regulation (volume of rules) and efficient enforcement (moni...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

9/8/17: Euro Area Banks Bailouts: The Legacy Still Hangs Over Our Heads

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The Financial Times has published a very neat visualisation of the global banks bailouts net impact to-date:  Source:  https://www.ft.c...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

3/1/17: Dead or Dying... A Requiem for the Traditional Banking Model

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Earlier today, I briefly posted on Twitter my thoughts about the evolving nature of traditional banking. Here, let me elaborate on these. ...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

23/10/16: Too-Big-To-Fail Banks: The Financial World 'Undead'

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This is an un-edited version of my latest column for the Village magazine Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis back in 2008, E...
Friday, September 2, 2016

2/9/16: Remember Banks Stress Tests: Tripple Farce and Still No Joy for Ireland

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Couple of older, but still relevant notes have stacked up on my virtual desktop over the last few weeks. Catching up with these, here is a...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

30/7/16: Europe's Bank Stability in Question

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My comment for Euromoney  on banking sector risks:  http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3574602/Europes-bank-stability-is-in-question-say-cou...
Monday, June 13, 2016

13/6/16: Twin Tech Challenge to Traditional Banks

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My article for the International Banker  looking at the fintech and cybercrime disruption threats to traditional banking models is out. ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

15/3/16: Irish Banks: CoCos Locos

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Remember CoCos? Those pretty ugly convertible securities the banks have been issuing to provide bailable cushions in case of a solvency cr...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

29/1/16: And the IBRC Interest Overcharging Ship Sails On...

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Just after posting the Mick Wallace video link on Nama ,  a knock on my blog door left this nice little letter at the doorstep. ...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

8/915: Five Years of Dodd-Frank Act: Two Posts on Reforms Impact

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Five years ago, on July 19, 2010, President Barak Obama signed the most far-reaching regulatory reform of the U.S. financial system since ...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

2/8/15: Five Years In: Judging Dodd-Frank Reforms

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My blog post for @LearnSignal assessing the first 5 years of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Part 1 http:/...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

21/7/15: Eastern Europe's post-2004 Convergence with EU: Financialisation

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In the previous post , I covered the EU's latest report on real economic convergence in Central & Eastern European (CEE10) Access...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

21/6/15: ECB ELA for Greece: Welcome to a Daily Drip of 'Solvency'

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Two days ago, I speculated on ECB's motives for drip-feeding ELA liquidity provisions to Greek banks ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.i...