Four fixes to make shadow banking a little bit safer

In its ongoing bid to regulate shadow banking, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has turned to the intriguing...

Jamie Dimon’s letter to shareholders

Dimon says that JPM is stronger, safer and more profitable than ever before. How? By being better capitalised;...

“Bank lobby has been successful at fighting reform”

Christian Chavagneux: You identify “leverage” as the key challenge of banking reform. Why? Robert Jenkins : We are...

Reforming the mega banks – two ways to deal with a tsunami

According to the financial lobby, the banking sector has suffered a tsunami of reform. It has faced new...

The stage is being set for another financial crisis

2008: A Crisis We Should Have Learned From In 2008, the world experienced the worst financial crisis since...

Climate risks and financial stability: the snowballing cost of procrastination

After years of warnings on the tremendous macro-economic consequences of the unfolding climate crisis, financial supervisors are finally...

The One-for-One Rule: A way for COP26 ambitions to manifest in financial regulation

With the transition to net zero, fossil fuel assets of banks and insurers will rapidly diminish in value...

Теневое финансирование: скрытая экономика бизнеса, который банки отвергли

Когда традиционные кредитные линии закрываются, предприниматели оказываются перед выбором: свернуть операции или найти капитал в обход банковской системы....

Basel III finalisation comes undone: A proposal that lets down citizens and backtracks on global agreements

Overview The global regulatory framework agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2017 (Basel III),...

Unprepared, the financial system will triple people’s bills for climate change

The first bill: the physical impacts of fossil finance Despite the Paris Agreement, world governments and the financial...

Three months of banking profits could prevent a ‘fossil subprime’ crisis

Banking supervisors are increasingly concerned about the links between climate change and financial stability. At the heart of the...

Capital requirements: a “silver bullet” against the looming climate-induced financial crises

The tremendous macro-economic consequences of the looming climate crisis are forcing financial supervisors to acknowledge that regulatory action...

4 reasons why banks and insurers can’t withstand the climate crisis without extra loss-absorption capacity

Financial supervisors are increasingly concerned about the links between climate change and financial stability. They are right –...

Banks do best for society when they have more capital, not less

On 24 January, EU policymakers demonstrated that when it comes to financial stability, memory is short. Members of...

8 lobby myths about higher capital requirements for fossil banking

Banks are crucial to our economy – they manage peoples’ deposits and savings, with them also allocating money...

Fossil fuel lending is a financial stability issue

N.b.: This is an extract of an article by Greg Ford that was first published on 10 August...

Why Venture Capital Might Be the Wrong Fit

Venture capital is often seen as the gold standard for growing companies, but it is far from suitable...

Basel approach not sufficient to address climate-related risks

How novel are the Principles? The Principles are the first formal guidance on climate-related financial risks from the...

#NoMoreCrises: Unkept Promises of Reform

The true cost of the 2008 crisis As authorities only just prevented a 2023 repeat of the 2008...

BCBS at last leveling the playing field #Playitfair

Big banks (Too-Big-to-Fail) are allowed to use their own models to determine their regulatory capital = the minimum amount...

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