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...The direct marketing of coins to the public is likely to intensify regulators’ focus on crypto ads: the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has said it needs more powers to rein in promoters of crypto ventures...
...Credit spreads, eh. Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...But how much is real, and how much is marketing?” the investor asks. There remain many pitfalls....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...They have the wherewithal, and they have the financial interest to do it. They only need to wake up.”...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...(Financial Times) - Editorial: Fed could be slightly more concerned at market reaction to tapering. (Financial Times) - UK banks made commissions of up to 60% on mis-sold credit card insurance....
...- Why the Acme Brick Company et al are Berkshire’s secret weapons....
...But the complexity of a large financial system, combined with ‘local thinking’ of the sort which Shleifer et al have described, can result in assessments of risks which are, in aggregate, impossible given...
...of which promptly happened as housing collapsed and panic spread about the possible failure of large financial institutions....
...Louis, which in April re-opened a case against Ameriprise Financial’s RiverSource funds that was rejected by a lower court. The case, Gallus et al. v....
...The data provider, fed up with banks trying to claim credit for deals on which they did not really advise, is set to introduce a measure that stipulates that banks have to give it notice of their role within...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The Court has stayed all but the first-filed ERISA class action case (entitled Alvidres v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.)....
...The leverage game is over for the foreseeable future and not just because regulators will tell Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley et al to go easy on the debt as a quid pro quo for borrowing from the Federal...
...The crisis has contributed to turmoil in financial markets in recent weeks and could threaten the health of the US economy as lenders tighten access to credit, putting a drag on consumer spending....
...But it may comfort Greenspan et al: after all, the more that traders use electronic systems, the less they need to use 19th century technologies, such as paper. So can we all relax? Not entirely....
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