Systemic Risks in Money Market Funds
Despite new support from Europe for the financial sector, markets are still exposed to one big hidden risk. Potential problems in almost every type of financial institution and security have been...
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Financial News Op-Ed 2 April 2013 High Frequency Trading is now in the sights of regulators around the world. HFT involves automatic trading strategies with high volume and extremely short holding...
View ArticleNeed for Regulation on the Conflicts in Banks’ Growing Role in Commodities
There is a clear danger in allowing major financial institutions to dominate both commodity derivatives markets and the related cash commodities. Now, the growing involvement of banks in commodities...
View ArticleRisks are growing in big equity and bond funds
Money printing and the current stockmarket boom are increasing systemic risk, pushing problems into new areas. Now the questions is; are some asset managers too big to fail? The financial crisis...
View ArticleSystemic Risks in Money Market Funds
Despite new support from Europe for the financial sector, markets are still exposed to one big hidden risk. Potential problems in almost every type of financial institution and security have been...
View ArticleSystemic Risk in ETFs
The explosion in Exchange Traded Funds threatens to make the industry a systemic risk. Regulation has focused too narrowly on the problems of 2008, overlooking the huge growth in new products since...
View ArticleRisks to investors in a high frequency world ; why controls are needed to...
Financial News Op-Ed 2 April 2013 High Frequency Trading is now in the sights of regulators around the world. HFT involves automatic trading strategies with high volume and extremely short holding...
View ArticleNeed for Regulation on the Conflicts in Banks’ Growing Role in Commodities
There is a clear danger in allowing major financial institutions to dominate both commodity derivatives markets and the related cash commodities. Now, the growing involvement of banks in commodities...
View Article8 years on, has Lehman cut global bank risks?
The Great Financial Crisis still casts a shadow in the industry, eight years on. The fear remains that it might not be the main event, but simply advance warning of something bigger. After two decades...
View ArticleNew bubbles from misguided monetary policy
Have any lessons been learned following the Great Financial Crisis? Around the world, it looks like new bubbles are growing. Certainly, the crisis showed that central banks and politicians can move...
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