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The Bank of England's new template for stress testing UK banks might be an improbable collection of fat tail events. But there's an important, and probable, risk missing from it. -
India is bracing itself for a financial overhaul as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to be stripped of its powers over government bonds in favour of a new agency. While details of the plan have yet to be finalised, this is good news for India — and for the RBI, which has been struggling with an identity crisis.
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Social responsibility means accountability, and accountability requires transparency. Even where socially responsible issuers show what they have funded, investors need comparisons to prove they have done some good.
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Greece’s euro-denominated future hangs in the balance. Greater integration and less sovereignty is needed to save the European project, but the ideological gap between Greece and Germany shows it will be nearly impossible to achieve.
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Investors in bank senior unsecured bonds have sailed through most of the crisis believing they are safe from haircuts if the bank fails. They’ve been wrong before, and as time goes on, it should be ever more clear that they face real credit risk.
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With the first US rate hike in years drawing closer, it’s no surprise to see analysts and public officials singling EM out as the source of the next credit crisis. But a well-meaning warning without nuance can look a lot like scaremongering.
