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FX and macro volatility is back in a big way, so the succession of miserable quarters in fixed income, currencies and commodities should be over. But investment banks have not fixed long running problems with the business.
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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.
