Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006	Cross-Asset STP Sophis introduced a full straight-through-processing module for securities lending and repo for its RISQUE platform.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2009 Morgan Housel	Lehman Brothers and the Age of Stupidity Next Tuesday, Sept. 15, marks one year since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. One year later, we ask: What's changed?
The Motley Fool October 16, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel	The Risky Business of Securities Lending Is your mutual fund betting with your money?
The Motley Fool April 20, 2010 Alex Dumortier	Revealed: How JPMorgan Prints Money With the Fed's help, JPMorgan achieves a rare feat.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	More Banking Panics Are on the Way Short-term lending agreements between banks prime the system for bank runs.
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Tim Clark	The Quiet Market Explosion While most of the industry has been focusing on exotic investment products and emerging markets, the securities lending market has boomed into a $16 trillion business. But with rapid growth comes substantial risk.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 William Trent	What Can the Fed Do? The Federal Reserve did not "bail out" Bear Stearns. Read on to learn more about what the Fed can, and cannot, do.
The Motley Fool October 9, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Know Your Numbers: Consumer Credit Use economic data to gain the upper hand in your investing. The Federal Reserve's consumer credit report provides some useful information about the borrowing practices of typical consumers.
HBS Working Knowledge October 13, 2010	How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt Harvard researchers Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein propose a "comparative advantage approach" that allows government to actively influence the corporate sector's borrowing decisions.
Wall Street & Technology January 20, 2008 Cory Levine	Fixed-Income Products Fail to Go Fully Electronic New research reveals that not all types of fixed income securities are experiencing rapid electronification.
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 Peter Coy	The Trillion-Dollar Treatment Europe is trying to fix its own raging fiscal disorder. So far it hasn't even nailed the diagnosis.
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Peter Coy	It's Out Of Bernanke's Reach There's little the Fed can do about the information gap behind investors' panic.
BusinessWeek June 11, 2009 James Cooper	Business Outlook: Signs of Progress on the Road to Recovery Improved financial conditions are laying the groundwork for a turnaround as investors' appetite for risk increases. Still, a second-half stumble could halt the momentum.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Jason Brady	Bottleneck While driven by fundamental weakness in U.S. real estate, in particular subprime loans, the current liquidity crisis has become a general lack of confidence in banking and financial institutions globally.
Wall Street & Technology February 13, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Repo Invasion Competition is heating up in the wholesale electronic market for trading repurchase agreements, or repos -- short-term contracts that dealers use to finance their positions in the Treasury market.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Andrew Ackerman	DOE Supports Loans The U.S. Department of Education plans to provide liquidity support to the student loan market.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Kathleen M. McBride	Subprime As the implosion of subprime mortgages and junk bonds causes uncertainty throughout the markets, advisors and broker/dealer executives may want to think about what's in their clients' portfolios.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Buying Treasuries Direct You can buy bonds commission-free from the federal government.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Jerry Webman	The Credit Crunch A Wall Streeter explains what happened and how the financial markets got into their current state.
Investment Advisor April 2009 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Down, Down, Down Numerous insurance companies are seeing their ratings fall at the hands of Fitch, A.M. Best, Moody's, and S&P.
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Randall Dodd	Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Nate Weisshaar	Lehman, Liquidity, and You How Wall Street's failures threaten the rest of us.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2005	Money Market Funds, Explained They're not exciting, but you may need them. They're generally ill-suited for long-term savings, but they're great for short-term investments, such as for money you'll need in the near future.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 S.J. Caplan	Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Lately, the Fed has used repos to counteract an excessively restrictive lending environment arising from the subprime crisis... etc.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2011 John Grgurich	After Friday's Downgrades, More Pain in the Banking Sector Banks feel the pressure.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Dadush, Dasgupta, & Ratha	The Role of Short-Term Debt in Recent Crises The 1990s witnessed a boom in short-term lending by international banks to developing countries that lasted until Asia's financial crisis erupted in 1997. By 1997, nearly 60 percent of all outstanding international bank claims on developing countries had a remaining maturity of less than one year.
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009 Henry et al.	Credit Creaks into Gear With a big boost from the feds, investors again like securities backed by assets like car loans -- but it'll take years for lending to flow freely.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Christopher Barker	Quick Take: Stop the Presses, Ben! The Federal Reserve surprised equity markets by launching a new weapon against the mortgage meltdown and the resulting credit crisis, but the dollar suffers.
OCC Bulletin May 22, 2002	Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates...
Entrepreneur October 2003 Dian Vujovich	No Guts, Some Glory Thinking short term and safety first? Here's a fund that's got both.
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Jack Ewing	European Banks' Last Laugh (Extended) European lenders tend to keep the risk in-house, so they're more careful about who borrows. Home buyers take on a lot less debt.
OCC Bulletin February 23, 2006	Risk-Based Capital -- Securities Borrowing Transactions: Final Rule This bulletin transmits a final rule on the risk-based capital treatment of securities borrowing transactions in which the borrower of the security posts cash collateral.
The Motley Fool December 11, 2007 Dan Caplinger	2007's Big Surprise Mutual funds that invest in Treasury securities have put in an unexpectedly good performance in 2007, giving broader-market indexes a run for their money.
U.S. Banker May 2010	Be Patient and Let Margins Expand with Time Here are three actions banks can-and should-take today to ensure stronger margins in the future.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Sham Gad	What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess.
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 Neil Gregory & Stoyan Tenev	The Financing of Private Enterprise in China A 1999 survey of more than 600 private Chinese enterprises revealed that they relied primarily on self-financing. For China's private sector to thrive, firms will need increased access to external loan and equity financing...
CFO April 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan	More Than Zero With short-term Treasury yields at rock bottom, companies are seeking higher returns for their cash.
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2008 Penny Crosman	Wall Street Taking A Closer Look at Collateral Management In the wake of the credit crisis, JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, many of the top broker-dealers and a few buy-side firms are all involved in collateral management technology upgrades.
The Motley Fool May 3, 2010 Dan Caplinger	This Ticking Time Bomb Will Cost Trillions We're getting too used to low interest rates.
OCC Bulletin April 4, 2001	Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities.
CFO October 1, 2007 Ryan & Hahn	Fear Factors Six banking executives discuss their concerns about the credit crunch and its ever-widening implications.
OCC Bulletin April 9, 2002	Risk-Based Capital A final rule permits banks to reduce the risk weight on certain claims against qualifying securities firms from 100 percent to 20 percent...
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 S.J. Caplan	Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Over the last two weeks, the commercial-paper market has become the latest casualty...
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Amanda B. Kish	Money-Market Funds Dial Up the Risk Now that it looks like the worst of the financial crisis is behind us, some managers are getting right back to juicing up portfolio risk.
Finance & Development September 2010 Ashok Vir Bhatia	After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel	Treasury Trifecta Want bonds? Here's where to get them.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Big-Time Risk on Short-Term Money Short-term bond funds have been billed as an attractive substitute for money-market mutual funds. But as some investors are discovering, these funds aren't risk-free. Yields fluctuate, and you risk losing some principal.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2009 Jordan DiPietro	Is Your Cash Really Safe? Don't take your eye off your money market mutual fund. Read on to see why.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2011 Morgan Housel	Disgraced Bank Execs Sail Off Into the Sunset Accounting gimmicks are rife among public companies, regardless of industry. Banks, however, consistently take it to a different level.
Entrepreneur November 2007 Rosalind Resnick	Getting a Margin Loan Securing a margin loan can mean quick cash for startup, but it doesn't come without risk.