by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 16, 2024 | Risk Report
A good and true apology* is hard to come by. This week, however, Team Regulator gave it a try. We have reported on the US proposals for the Basel III endgame and the G-SIB surcharge many times before so here’s an ultra-short recap: Summer 2023: Team Regulator proposes...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Sep 3, 2024 | Risk Report
Don’t you just love it when, at the end of a soap opera season, it turns out that the four side-stories are connected, and the manager from the corner store is the long-lost twin* of the heir to the billion-dollar empire, and they will now have to share the fortune...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jul 22, 2024 | Risk Report
Back in 1967, there was a Danish variety show featuring a song called The Swings and The Carousels. The chorus ran along the lines of: We need to earn on the swings What we lost on the carousels Referring to the old amusement park, Tivoli, in Copenhagen, it is...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jul 15, 2024 | Risk Report
Banks should hold enough capital. That is hard to argue with no matter if you are on Team Regulator or Team Bank. Where it gets a little more contentious is how much is enough. Burned by the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, regulators far and wide tend to equate...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Jun 24, 2024 | Risk Report
Many of us know the chain of events set in motion, when you tell a toddler in very specific terms what they should NOT do. Sometimes financial markets act in the same way. In this year’s yen episodes, the grown-up is the Japanese top foreign-exchange official, Masato...
