Spain got downgraded: The downgrade of Spain’s debt only one day after Portuguese bond yields hit record highs is putting extra pressure on euro zone leaders to find a solution to the resurgent euro zone …
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March 10, 2011
More kerfuffle over the TMX / LSE merger: Speaking to provincial legislators on Thursday, Howard Wetston, chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission, said the final decision will hinge on whether the controversial $3.1-billion deal is …
FRBNY Assesses Economic Cost of Higher Bank Capital Ratios
The New York Fed has released a staff report by Paolo Angelini, Laurent Clerc, Vasco Cúrdia, Leonardo Gambacorta, Andrea Gerali, Alberto Locarno, Roberto Motto, Werner Roeger, Skander Van den Heuvel, and Jan Vlček titled BASEL …
March 9, 2011
The day started with rumours that some of the owners of Alpha Trading Systems don’t want big brother to get married: Four of the country’s six largest banks are lining up to raise red flags …
March 8, 2011
Alarms are sounding about a possible Chinese bank crisis: China faces a 60 percent risk of a banking crisis by mid-2013 in the aftermath of record lending and surging property prices, according to a Fitch …
March 7, 2011
There are threats of inflation in Asia: The Bank of Thailand and Bank of Korea will each raise key interest rates this week by a quarter percentage point, median estimates in Bloomberg News surveys of …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: February 2011
Turnover picked up again in February, to about 70% Trades were, as ever, triggered by a desire to exploit transient mispricing in the preferred share market (which may be thought of as “selling liquidity”), rather …
March 4, 2011
The IMF has released the March 2011 edition of Finance and Development. There’s an article by André Meier titled Up or Down: Some have predicted postcrisis deflation in advanced economies, others high inflation. Worries about …
March 3, 2011
The migration of traders continues: Guggenheim Partners LLC, the closely held investment bank and asset manager, plans to hire as many as 150 staff being pushed out of banks’ proprietary-trading units because of U.S. financial …
SplitShare Capital Unit Debate
Assiduous Readers will remember that I was quoted in a recent article by John Heinzl expressing a strong opinion on the Capital Units issues by SplitShare corporations: For those reasons, Mr. Hymas says the capital …