Hints and tips:
...Here’s Citi’s Andrew Coombs et al. then: For the European banks, we see less risk of deposit flight and believe they have more liquid balance sheets....
...In the US, at least, mom-and-pop investors and advisers build portfolios with the categories used by Morningstar et al....
...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the C$400bn global investment group, told my colleague Josephine Cumbo that the UK stood out because of its “pro business” stance....
...That would be “Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v Humphrey”, which says “the exchange rate from the date of domestic judgment should be used”....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...al Jazeera’s BeIn Sports....
...— 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....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...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...
...… Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank that Broke Britain, by Ian Fraser, Birlinn, RRP£25 Of two excellent recent books about the implosion of Royal Bank of Scotland (the other is Iain Martin’s Making it...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...For more on the underlying research by Andrei Schleifer et al — see this post from Felix Salmon looking at an earlier version of the paper cited by Turner....
...Some banks, such as Barclays Capital, alerted authorities....
...The plan would have introduced new capital providers to repay the £180m owed to Royal Bank of Scotland. The remaining £100m would remain on the company’s balance sheet....
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
...as well as the George V Hotel in Paris and the Fairmont Raffles....
...Had the central bank allowed the failure of Long Term Capital Management to run its course, Lehman, Bear Stearns, et al would still be here....
...Investors were also keen to buy banks ahead of Wednesday’s announcement from the Financial Accounting Standards Board on mark-to-market accounting, which has been blamed for exacerbating banks’ capital problems...
...The big three mega-banks, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mizuho, have all being raising capital in the form of preferred shares and securities....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
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