Please, Release Me, Let Me Go

Please, Release Me, Let Me Go

by | Mar 9, 2026 | Risk Report

My crinkly brain has been stuck on this song Please, Release Me (1949) made popular by Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967 (look up Izzard’s skit about workshopping that artist name). It gets weirder because the earworm was brought to me by an owl, specifically Blue Owl...
The End of the BINO

The End of the BINO

by | Dec 8, 2025 | Risk Report

Can a financial institution call itself a bank without having a banking license, that is, be a Bank In Name Only (BINO)? Recently, the central bank of Brazil announced that using the word bank in the name requires permission and the fulfillment of particular capital...
A Rare Glimpse of Systemic Risk

A Rare Glimpse of Systemic Risk

by | Sep 8, 2025 | Risk Report

A camera catches a column of hand-written numbers as Sir David Attenborough narrates: Here, in the unforgiving embrace of the high peaks, a ghost of finance moves, the systemic risk, a creature so rightfully vilified its very existence seems a threat to our way of...