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kevinan108

Rattled Greeks not alone in massive bank savings exodus | Economy | News | Financial Post - 0 views

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  • Worries about a run on Greek banks has rattled Athens this week, after savers withdrew at least 700 million euros on Monday alone, according to minutes of Papoulias’s comments to political leaders posted on the presidency’s website.
  • Greece’s banks have lost 72 billion euros in deposits since the start of 2010, or about 30%, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters.
  • And on Thursday, Spain’s Bankia was reported to have seen more than 1 billion euros drained by its customers in the past week.
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  • Cash flooded into Britain; more than 140 billion euros was deposited in four big banks alone. The UK benefits from its position outside the eurozone and its Asia-focused banks HSBC and Standard Chartered are seen as particular safe-havens. Other banks to see big inflows included Barclays, Germany’s Deutsche Bank, Switzerland’s Credit Suisse and UBS and Russia’s Sberbank and VTB.
stefan ayache

Hedge Funds Are Shadow Banks in Need of Regulation, Bafin Says - Bloomberg - 1 views

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  • Hedge funds act as shadow banks and should be added to the list of organizations in need of regulation
  • Germany’s financial regulator Bafin.
  • Shadow-banking definitions by the Financial Stability Board
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  • are too narrow
  • Bafin is working on its own proposals to regulate the sector
  • make dodging rules more tedious and expensive
  • So-called shadow banking that takes place outside the scope of regulators is being targeted by financial watchdogs on concern that it may be used to evade a global clampdown on excessive risk-taking
  • The FSB
  • established a list of shadow-banking activities that may warrant tougher oversight
  • will seek agreement on the rules by the end of 2012
  • Authorities should know why money is deposited offshore
  • need for additional rules for derivatives
  • credit-default swaps
  • who should be allowed to sell CDS
  • purchase of the instruments should be restricted
  • the CDS market still isn’t transparent
  • tripling how much core capital lenders must hold to at least 7 percent of assets
  • how much freedom national regulators should have to go beyond minimum EU capital rules
  • Finance ministers are set to discuss the rules again at a meeting in Brussels
  • German banks that lend to local economies dominated by medium-sized companies are seeking to loosen standards for risk weighting of these loans
  • The current crises were caused by subprime and government bonds
  • force banks to hold Tier 1 capital equivalent to 3 percent of their total assets
  • would prevent lenders from accumulating assets worth more than 33 times their reserves
  • The measure is needed to stop banks from evading other capital rules
  • considering how to expand the range of assets that qualify as highly liquid
  • concerns that the current list is too narrowly focused on government debt
  • survive a 30-day credit squeeze
  • set to take effect in 2015
  • We, for example, have a huge government bond market; others don’t
Kevin Mao

Are low interest rates causing low savings rates? | Fox Business - 0 views

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  • recent study found that nearly half of American workers are not contributing to any form of retirement plan.
  • People who fail to save money will pay for their short-sightedness in the future, but the decline of savings can also be seen as a logical response to a low-interest-rate environment
  • 49 percent of respondents said they were not contributing to any retirement plan
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  • average personal savings rate in the U.S. slipped to 3.9 percent in the first quarter of 2012 -- the lowest level in over four years
  • With savings account interest rates near zero, people are left with little incentive to save.
  • With interest rates running well below the rate of inflation, money in a savings account or other deposit vehicle is actually losing purchasing power with each passing day
  • you have to consider one additional factor: inflation.
  • Bond yields are not much higher, and stocks haven't been very rewarding so far in the 21st century either
  • However, getting the most for your money is only one consideration. Having resources to support your retirement is also an important function of saving, and in this respect people with low savings rates are not behaving rationally.
  • while low interest rates may seem to discourage saving money, they actually make it more imperative.
  • other important point of this context is that outside of the government, most people no longer have an employer pension plan to fall back on.
  • shift from defined benefit to defined contribution retirement plans put the responsibility for saving solely on the employees
  • people seem to have responded to this trend by saving less rather than more
  • by choosing more immediate consumption over saving for retirement, people are supporting their current lifestyles at the expense of the future.
  • this is a decision that many will regret once that future arrives
  • Kevin Mao on 17 May 12
     
    An article about how interest rates influence saving habits.
kevinan108

JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50% - 0 views

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  • The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank’s initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the losses.
  • In March, the company raised the quarterly dividend by 5 cents, to 30 cents, which will cost the bank about $190 million more this quarter.
  • At the bank’s annual meeting in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Mr. Dimon did not definitively rule out cutting the dividend, although he said that he “hoped” it would not be cut.
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  • “JPMorgan Chase has a big hedge fund inside a commercial bank,” said Mark Williams, a professor of finance at Boston University, who also served as a Federal Reserve bank examiner. “They should be taking in deposits and making loans, not taking large speculative bets.”
  • In its simplest form, traders said, the complex position assembled by the bank included a bullish bet on an index of investment-grade corporate debt, later paired with a bearish bet on high-yield securities, achieved by selling insurance contracts known as credit-default swaps.
  • kevinan108 on 18 May 12
     
    The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank's initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the losses. When Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's chief executive, announced the losses last Thursday, he indicated they could double within the next few quarters.
kevinan108

China's easing aimed at housing market - MarketWatch - 0 views

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  • The People’s Bank of China announced on Saturday it plans to lower then the ratio of reserves bank must set aside as deposits at the central bank by a half percentage point, effective Friday.
  • Investment in real estate was up 18.7% in the first four months of the year, cooling significantly from a 23.5% gain in the first three months of the year, according to official figures released Friday. The data weren’t broken down on a monthly basis.
  • The numbers indicated property developers were cutting back on land purchases, with outlays on sites of 182 billion yuan ($28.81 billion) in the January-to-April period, a drop of nearly 14% from a year earlier.
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  • Standard Chartered said developers’ concerns over the property market were reflected in data showing residential investment hitting the wall in April, growing just 4% during the month, compared to a 15.1% year-on-year rise in March.
Kostya Golovan

Regulators clash over 'shadow banking' behind ETFs - Citywire - 0 views

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  • Regulators are in direct conflict over how exchange traded funds (ETFs) take in ‘short-term money’ and promise instant liquidity, but can invest in long-term and less liquid assets.
  • offering immediate liquidity but are potentially raising short-term money to fund longer-term investments.
  • This concern began when regulators started worrying about money market funds…it's just deposit taking but called something different. It's taking short-term money but investing in longer-term securities.
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  • the macro regulators think this liquidity transformation, as a type of ‘shadow banking’, needs regulation.
  • whole point of these vehicles is shorter-term liquidity and that investors should have more immediate access to money.
  • Ucits rules do stipulate funds must invest in liquid assets.
  • However, Gleeson and other industry experts pointed out that
  • A manager will be sanctioned if they use assets that do not have liquidity.
  • Shadow banking is positive. The danger is we regulate to the point this becomes unprofitable
  • Kostya Golovan on 18 May 12
     
    This article looks at how exchange traded funds (ETFs) take short term cash, very liquid capital, and use the funds to make long term investments. It is all well and good until the fact that ETFs are marketed as vehicles offering immediate liquidity is considered. The liquidity of ETFs is dependent on the underlying assets in which the money is invested. Therefore, regulations might be set forward ensuring that ETFs invest only in liquid assets.
kevinan108

Spain banking sector shaken by report of bank run | CanadianBusiness.com - 0 views

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  • Confidence in Spain's banks and its teetering economy was shaken Thursday after a newspaper reported that depositors were rushing to withdraw their money from Bankia, a troubled bank that was effectively nationalized just one week ago.
  • Adding to the anxiety, rating agency Moody's downgraded its credit ratings on Spanish banks.
  • Political turmoil in Greece has increased the likelihood that it could leave the 17-country monetary union, a move that could have ripple effects throughout Europe and the world's financial markets.
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  • Bankia SA, the country's fourth-largest lender, saw its shares fall as much as 27 percent during trading in Madrid after the El Mundo newspaper reported the bank was hit with more than €1 billion ($1.27 billion) of withdrawals since the government announced the takeover.
  • Greek president Karolos Papoulias warned party leaders during unsuccessful coalition talks that about €700 million ($898 million) in deposits have flown out of Greek banks since the May 6 elections, according to a report from Greece's central bank governor, George Provopoulos
  • the interest rate on Spanish 10-year bonds stood at a worryingly high 6.29 percent. It has risen sharply from below 5 percent in March and is edging toward the 7 percent mark that is considered unsustainable in the longer term.
Kostya Golovan

Banking regulations cost more than they deliver | Mail Online - 2 views

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  • One should never underestimate the depths to which politicians will go to seek popularity
  • It must be the evil capitalists, they suggested, and not Labour's appalling spending record that was to blame for Britain's struggling response to the recession.
  • worrying tendency to meet recession with excessive regulatory response to banks, in order to justify taxpayer-funded bailouts.
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  • Where banks are concerned, regulatory responses are often commercially restricting, difficult to comply with, and ineffective in lowering commercial risk.
  • Not unjustified, of course - if you believe in bank bailouts.
  • This is often done by shifting business towards high-risk products in the battle for survival.
  • Apart from restricting credit through profit loss on regulatory compliance, it may also result in the shift of risk to general credit transactions, as banks seek to recoup profits lost from overregulated areas such as hedging products.
  • On the back of the J.P. Morgan's billion dollar losses, there is now a temptation in the EU to pass a measure similar to the Volcker rule in the U.S Dodds-Franck Act.
  • The Volcker rule, in the U.S., prevents banks from using additional profits on deposits for a high-risk bet strategy
  • Banks have made it clear that this sort of regulation is difficult to comply with, as bet-style transactions and a pure hedge are very difficult to distinguish
  • These seek to distinguish between retail and other banking operations, and to increase reserves in banks to protect the taxpayer.
  • One might observe that the inflationary costs of low interest rates to encourage lending, and over-regulation that effectively reduces it (and also comes with public-sector administrative costs) are not exactly compatible on principle.
  • Long-term growth will also suffer, and with it, jobs - especially as we are in a recession.
  • It would be better for banks to crash and burn where they deserve to, and for governments not to get involved in second-guessing market risk, through unworkable regulation, for political gain.
  • Further, politicians ought to realise that the best way to protect the taxpayer is not to get involved in bailouts at all.
  • Kostya Golovan on 18 May 12
     
    The banks are apparently being over-blamed in the causation of the worldwide economic crisis by politicians. They are using the hype of the economic crisis in their favor and assigning all the blame to the banks which is in turn now leading to increases in regulations over the banking industry. Over-regulation will hurt the banking industry by reducing the number of option and easy with which they can utilize their money.
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