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The agency should have more flexibility rather than being compelled to chose the ‘least cost’ option
...Bair said she thought more investigations and fact finding were needed before a change was made at the top of the agency....
Financial literacy should start early — the principles will stay with you throughout your life
The latest wheeze from lenders is to use ‘credit linked notes’ for capital relief
The era of zero interest policy was characterised by sluggish growth and yawning wealth inequality
New measures are an important step to protect the US and world economies against future financial crises
...As Bair herself notes, today’s CLNs are different to the crisis-era credit default swaps because they are pre-funded and hence eliminate counterparty risk....
...Bair also makes the argument that economic growth is divorced from the level of interest rates....
With inflation falling, further tightening of monetary policy only heightens the risk of recession and financial instability
...What correlation does Bair identify in the years 1982-1990 and 1991-2001?...
Measures to shield operational business accounts, introduced during Covid, should be triggered urgently
...Sheila Bair’s comment (“Truth must be told about bank capital rules plans”, On Wall Street, September 2) is only partly true....
...Starting in the 1990s, he began to light models with a handheld torch called Mag-Lite — a technique seen in a photo of model Molly Bair for Vogue Italia, a favourite piece from the exhibition....
The FDIC seems to think the banking system is more fragile than it really is
...Bair — and others obviously — offer some explanations as to why banks should not be allowed to model credit risk to calculate capital requirements....
...As head of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2006 to 2011, Sheila Bair helped lead the response to the 2008 financial crisis....
...“Liquidity stress testing/rules present an area where all countries need to do more work,” says Sheila Bair, former chair of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...“It’s doesn’t surprise me and it saddens me,” said Bair....
...With that in mind, here’s a new report from the Center for Financial Stability on the topic, authored by an eclectic handful of industry luminaries — Sheila Bair, Joyce Chang, Charles Goodhart, Lawrence...
...“I don’t think this is 2008,” said Sheila Bair, who ran the FDIC during the crisis....
...Former FDIC chair Sheila Bair says the flight of deposits could make the biggest banks even bigger, while otherwise healthy lenders get into trouble....
...Sheila Bair, who ran the FDIC during the financial crisis, describes reciprocal deposits as “classic rent seeking”. The case for higher deposit insurance is unproven....
...So I think it’d be premature for an uninsured to be selling at a steep discount,” Bair said....
Jay Powell mirrors the former Fed chair’s bravery but not his methods
...“To the extent that these deposit exchange programmes help weak banks attract deposits, it creates instability,” said Sheila Bair, who headed the FDIC during the global financial crisis....
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