Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The Basel Committee, known as the world’s most powerful financial regulator, includes regulators from 28 large economies and sets global policies, including on how much capital banks must hold....
...US watchdogs have said capital requirements for global systemically important banks (G-Sibs) would rise by an average of 19 per cent under the proposals....
...Tiger Global has raised $2.2bn for its latest venture capital fund, roughly a third of the $6bn target it touted to investors when it first announced the fund in 2022....
...It is the only way for us to compete with other global economic powers. We are not starting from scratch....
...Germany has pledged $325mn towards hybrid capital, while the UK will give $124mn and Denmark $57mn. France, Norway, Latvia and Italy also all contributed....
...Now, the EU is trying desperately to bridge the gap with a new capital markets union....
...De Cos hinted that the ‘endgame’ package and a handful of possible rule changes related to last year’s spate of blow ups might not be the Basel Committee’s final word on global bank capital....
...Breadth does not come at the expense of analytical or emotive depth. Unlike Oppenheimer, the series looks beyond those who actively shaped seismic events to those helplessly caught in history....
...While combating global warming is a priority at Banga’s World Bank, there have been other motivations at work in stimulating private capital....
...The mortality estimates that I rely upon, computed by the Global Impact lab — the empirical work is super, super serious and robust, using historical data from tens of thousands of micro-regions....
...Kelleher said effective loss-absorbing capital within the banking sector had increased around 20 times since the global financial crisis, and UBS held more than $200bn....
...“In a way it’s an arms race,” Russell Hardy, chief executive of Vitol, the world’s biggest oil trader, told the FT Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne this month....
...significant and broad-based slowdown in productivity, she said, urging countries to enact measures to strengthen governance, cut red tape, increase female labour market participation, improve access to capital...
...But the numbers tell a story about the polarisation of global industry and a shift to Asia, where investment still largely goes into capital-hungry physical plant and machinery rather than the human capital...
...According to the IMF, 19 per cent of global banking assets are now held in banks that do not meet its capital ratio guidelines, many of them in China....
...Hence the important question of what analytical perspective the ECB will take on the inflation process in the longer term, and which lessons it will permanently absorb from the past three years....
...And corporate recruiters need to update their approach, inquiring about qualifications that include ESG analytical skills and a sustainability mindset....
...“I am a new face to the capital market, and winning trust takes time.”...
...“It’s never popular to raise something for technology in Africa but it’s becoming more acceptable for global capital,” Maurizio Caio, TLcom’s managing partner, told the Financial Times....
...Now read these ‘A lot of beauty’: Aesthetics meets postcolonial politics at the Venice Biennale, where curators are foregrounding indigenous creators and the global south....
...So would a global fall in emissions stop this line of argument?...
...This is a shame, because a thorough, analytical investigation into government borrowing strategies would be hugely valuable....
...Growth in the services sector offset weakness in manufacturing to lift S&P Global’s monthly gauge of eurozone corporate activity for April above the forecasts of most economists....
...After that, you get a far more global bunch....
...By 2050, according to researchers in Germany, global income is projected to fall by about a fifth, equivalent to $38tn a year, compared to what it would have been without global warming....
International Edition