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December 1, 2008
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Preventing Future Crises The financial crisis has exposed weaknesses in the current regulatory and supervisory frameworks and made it clear that we are in need of regulatory reform.   |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Tomas J.T. Balino & Angel Ubide |
The New World of Banking Four trends are fundamentally altering the financial world: consolidation of institutions, globalization of operations, development of new technologies, and universalization of banking. Each of these poses challenges for the effective supervision and regulation of the financial sector.... |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Michael Sisk |
A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies. |
Bank Technology News
June 2001
Brian O'Connell |
Risk Management Software Spells Relief for Bankers The technology also helps keep regulators happy... |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
Buffett, the Rating Agencies, and a Possible Opportunity Warren Buffett discusses the rating agencies and suggests a company that may be coming to eat their lunch. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Andrew Crockett |
Rebuilding the Financial Architecture What needs to be done to strengthen financial regulation and supervision? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Cem Karacadag & Michael W. Taylor |
Toward a New Global Banking Standard: The Basel Committee's Proposals The Basel Committee's new capital framework proposals will have important implications for developed and developing countries alike. Although many details remain to be worked out, it is not too early for countries to start preparing for the proposals' implementation. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 13, 2012
Maggie Starvish |
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's dominated the credit ratings industry for decades. Could the recession weaken their hold? |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Most Powerful Companies in the World Allowing one company's actions to have so much influence over the economy is terribly dangerous and never should have happened. But it is still happening, with ratings agencies. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Greatest Trick the Bankers Ever Pulled How do we get banks to get back to accurately pricing risk? By attacking the problem from multiple angles. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Kamil et al. |
A Hedge, Not a Bet Latin American companies used new techniques to protect against currency swings. But a few used them to gamble -- and they lost big. |
CFO
June 1, 2010
Randy Myers |
Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference? |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Per Kurowski |
Letters to the Editor No reform can serve its purpose if it does not understand what is really wrong with the current regulations. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Das et al. |
Financial Regulators Need Independence Granting more operational autonomy to the agencies that keep an eye on the financial sector can bolster financial stability. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Capital Ratio Fever Just as blood pressure and heart rate are vital measures of physical health, capital ratios are vital measures of the health and solvency of banks. Right now, those vital signs reflect a sick industry that's getting sicker. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Revealed: 3 Emails That Explain the Crisis Released last week, a new 650-page Senate report on the financial crisis describes multiple aspects of a financial system run amok, including the way in which bankers muscled ratings agencies to turbo-charge their deal-making machine. |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2007
Michael Leibert |
Moody's: No Chink in the Armor Despite feeling some heat, Moody's projects solid growth and maintains a strong competitive position. Investors, take note. |
OCC Bulletin
July 5, 2001 |
Assessment of Fees: Independent Credit Card Banks; Lower-Rated Institutions Under the rule, a national bank will be deemed an "independent credit card bank" if it engages primarily in credit card operations and is not affiliated with a full-service national bank. The OCC will continue to assess independent credit card banks based on balance sheet assets... |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Roben Farzad |
Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie? |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 20, 2009
Julia Hanna |
Risky Business with Structured Finance Even modest imprecision in estimating underlying risks is magnified disproportionately when securities are pooled and tranched. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
Bank Technology News
April 2009
Rebecca Sausner |
Toss The Models Out The Window Peter Cotton, equipped with a PhD in math from Stanford, believes his better mousetrap can get things back on track. |
The Motley Fool
July 21, 2006
Alex Dumortier |
Congress' Move Doesn't Rate With Moody's The market might be overreacting to the prospect of more regulation for ratings agencies. Moody's shares have lost almost 30% since the end of the first quarter. Value investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
Morningstar Has a AAA-Rated Plan Morningstar announced today that it's getting into the credit rating business. |
CFO
September 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Good to Rate The rating agencies are under review for their failure to downgrade Enron more promptly. The only trouble is, proposed reforms might make things worse. |
OCC Bulletin
February 28, 2005 |
Interagency Advisory The advisory reminds financial institutions of the confidential nature of an institution's report of examination, which includes the CAMELS or other supervisory rating, as well as other nonpublic supervisory information. |
U.S. Banker
April 2008 |
The Many Cozy Relationships Of Bond Insurers Some do not view the multi-billion-dollar bank bailout for insurers as a path to recovery but as further enabling of damaging, co-dependent behavior among banks, rating agencies and bond insurers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 20, 2006
Ann Cullen |
Unlocking Your Investment Capital Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their risk balance sheet. |
U.S. Banker
July 2009
Andrew Dubinsky |
Electronic Lending Could Help Avert Another Crisis If regulators had the tools in place to effectively view complex debt instruments and the links between the financial institutions that securitize, hold, and insure them this crisis may not have happened. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 21, 2009
Roger Thompson |
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government's Role as Fixer In his new book, Too Big to Save, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Kodres & Narain |
What Is to Be Done While there is enough blame to pass around, one key contributor to the global financial crisis was inadequate regulation. The scope of financial regulation needs to be revamped and the provision of liquidity improved. Here's how. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
I'd Short This Stock David Einhorn, prominent hedge fund manger known for successfully shorting Lehman Brothers, recently disclosed that his firm, Greenlight Capital, is shorting Moody's. |
OCC Bulletin
October 27, 2004 |
Internal Ratings-Based Systems for Retail Credit Risk for Regulatory Capital This bulletin briefly summarizes the proposed supervisory guidance on Internal Ratings-Based Systems for Retail Credit Risk for Regulatory Capital that was published today for notice and comment in the Federal Register. |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2007
David Henry |
Anatomy Of A Ratings Downgrade How S&P and Moody's miscalculated risk on two top-rated pools of mortgage-backed bonds. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Amar Bhattacharya |
A Tangled Web Everyone agrees on reforming the governance of financial markets, but who will do what remains unclear. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Wim Fonteyne |
EU: From Monetary to Financial Union The choice is not between a centralized and a decentralized framework, but about the degree of centralization that will give Europe the best tools to manage risks to its financial stability without impeding the integration process itself. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Lynn Hume |
The Bond Buyer SEC Votes on Rules for Rating Agencies: The proposed rules would implement provisions of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006, which Congress approved and President Bush signed to foster increased competition, transparency and accountability among rating agencies. |
OCC Bulletin
July 15, 1999 |
Summary of the Basel Committee's Consultative Document: "A New Capital Adequacy Framework" The paper describes a framework for bank supervision and regulation that contains three "pillars" -- a regulatory capital minimum, an enhanced supervisory review process, and more effective use of market discipline through disclosure. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2009
Jennifer Schonberger |
What's the Best Recipe for Financial Regulatory Reform? Experts give their insight on what's ahead for the industry. In 2010 the U.S. Senate will face the question of how to restructure our financial regulatory system. |
FDIC FYI
January 14, 2003 |
Basel and the Evolution of Capital Regulation: Moving Forward, Looking Back How much capital is enough? How bank regulators have answered this question during the post World War II period has been shaped by two contending strands of thought. |
Investment Advisor
November 2007
Melanie Waddell |
On the Agenda: Insurance and Ratings Congress looks at insurance reform and the subprime mess. |
Insurance & Technology
May 21, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Senate Financial Reform Bill Mostly a Relief for Insurers The potential for duplicative federal insurance regulation did not materialize within the Restoring American Stability Act of 2010 passed by the Senate, but concerns still remain how the final law will affect the industry after passage through the House later this year. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Another Pitiful Stab at Berkshire Hathaway Why do we listen to these people anymore? |
OCC Bulletin
September 5, 2001 |
Community Bank-Focused Regulation Review: Lending Limits Pilot Program This final rule establishes a three-year pilot program that creates new special lending limits for loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate loans and small business loans... |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Rating Agencies Get A Credit Check The SEC and European regulators are debating new rules for the U.S.-led credit rating industry. The commission probably will ask Congress for authority to require rating agencies to open their books and records to the SEC. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Ingves & Lind |
Stockholm Solutions A crucial lesson from the Nordic experience is the need for prominent state involvement in crisis resolution. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
Quit Whining, Ratings Agencies! Fast-forward to the day financial reform is signed into law. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's (a division of McGraw Hill), the big three debt ratings agencies, are refusing to rate debt. |
