Download or read book Good Bank Bad Bank written by Anne Boden and published by Portfolio. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I surprised myself the first time I fully articulated the words, "I'm starting a bank."' Good Bank, Bad Bank is the insider account of one woman's quest to revolutionize Britain's broken banking system. A career at the pinnacle of some of the UK's top banks had left Anne Boden disillusioned with the sector. The financial crash and emerging technologies presented vast opportunity for change, but change it would not. Increasingly frustrated, Anne decided to do something radical - set up her own bank. In this awe-inspiring story Anne reveals how she defied the odds to realize her vision for the future of consumer banking. She founded Starling Bank, the winner of Best British Bank at the British Bank Awards 2018, and in doing so has triggered a movement that is shaking up the entire banking system.
Download or read book The Financial Cesspools A Critical Analysis of Bad Banks as Financial Instruments written by Kaan Akkanat and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1.67, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, course: Financial Constitution (in Time of Crisis), language: English, abstract: "The cardinal maxim is that any aid to a present bad bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good bank" wrote the British economic journalist Walter Bagehot in 1873. In his evaluative analysis, Bagehot stretched the potential problems that may arise as a result of government's interventions. Although there has been more than a century since his comments on the pre-mature idea of a bad bank and interventions, the discussions on the utility of bad banks persists in today's financial spectrums. In economic terminology, bad banks are used to take risky assets from otherwise good banks. This essay will first address the idea of so-called bad banks as a new financial instrument and then will focus on the analysis of their impacts on crises development.
Download or read book How does the Bad Bank Concept Influence the Commercial Banks Ability and Willingness to Increase Commercial Lending in Germany written by Alexej Antropov and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,3, University of applied sciences, Munich, course: International Finance & Accounting, language: English, abstract: During the Financial Crisis 2007-2010, which was the result of housing bubble in the United States in 2006, commercial banks rapidly decreased the amount of commercial lending worldwide. So called subprime credits made the assets of commercial banks less worth during a short period. It was the cause for the credit crunch in many economies. Because many enterprises have to rely on debt capital, which they lend from commercial banks to finance their investments, the credit crunch hit such enterprises very hard. The outcome is that the whole economy suffers. Many governments elaborated the bad bank concept to solve the problem of decreased commercial lending, also Germany. It means, that banks will be allowed to start special purpose vehicles (SPV) for holding the subprime credits and to bring such subprime credits out of the balance sheet of the bank. In Anglo-Saxon countries there are two other terms in use for SPV: (loan) recovery agency and asset management company. According to Homoelle, Ruff and Tuerr1 in theory and praxis there are many variants of bad bank models existing. Until now the question which model is most successful, became insufficient exploration. German government adopted two different models of bad banks and proposed the Financial Market Stabilisation Act (FMStFG), which became effective on July 22th 2009.2 After that some banks used this opportunity and transferred their subprime assets to such SPV. The scope of the work is first to evaluate why exactly commercial banks decreased the commercial lending, second to analyse German bad bank concept and then to work out the incentives of this concept for more commercial lending by commercial banks and to show some examples of implementation of bad bank concept by German banks. At the end the answer on the question, whether the bad bank concept increases the ability and willingness of German commercial banks to make more commercial credits available or not, will be given in this term paper.
Download or read book Managing Banking Risks written by Eddie Cade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banking and financial services are some of the fastest-growing industries in the world's developed countries. As growth is spurred on by huge demand for new and improved services, bankers face the daunting and difficult challenges of reducing risks and uncertainty at a time of unprecedented innovation and prosperity. Managing Banking Risks fills a gap in banking literature by providing a professional and sophisticated risk planner--for bank directors, executives, and managers at every operational level. This important work covers the full range of banking risks that operation managers and executives need to understand--from liquidity risk to price risk to operating risk.
Download or read book Big Bad Banks written by C. R. Cloutier and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bank Failure written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleaning up Bank Balance Sheets written by José Garrido and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stabilize and bring down nonperforming loans (NPLs) in the Italian banking system, the Italian authorities have been implementing a number of reforms, aimed among others at speeding up insolvency and enforcement proceedings, strengthening bank corporate governance, cleaning up balance sheets, and facilitating bank consolidation. This paper examines the Italian banking system’s NPL problem, which ties up capital, weighing on bank profitability and authorities’ economic reforms. It argues for a comprehensive approach, encompassing economic, supervisory, and legal measures. The authorities’ reforms are important steps toward this end. The paper describes measures that could further support their actions.
Download or read book The Lost Bank written by Kirsten Grind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on reporting for which the author was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award, this book traces the rise and spectacular fall of Washington Mutual.
Download or read book The 99 Strongest Banks in America written by John Truman Wolfe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banking--in the U.S. and globally--has devolved into a colossal Vegas-like casino and bankers have become the ultimate "whale" gamblers.The global banking system today has an estimated $1.2 quadrillion dollars in a kind of monetary heroin called derivatives.*The figure is mind-numbing, but just to give you a sense of the size of this madness, here it is with the appropriate number of zeroes (15): $1,200,000,000,000,000.Or, it may be more entertaining if you think of it this way: If you had a job that paid you $1,000 per second, it would take more than 31 years for you to earn $1 trillion.A quadrillion is 1,000 trillion.It's a big number. And I repeat, there are now $1.2 quadrillion dollars in derivatives held by financial institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
Download or read book The Bankers New Clothes written by Anat Admati and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year Why our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix it New bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis—and that we’d never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The Bankers’ New Clothes uncovers just how little things have changed—and why banks are still so dangerous. Writing in clear language that anyone can understand, Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig debunk the false and misleading claims of bankers, regulators, politicians, academics, and others who oppose effective reform, and they explain how the banking system can be made safer and healthier. Thoroughly updated for a world where bank failures have made a dramatic return, this acclaimed and important book now features a new preface and four new chapters that expose the shortcomings of current policies and reveal how the dominance of banking even presents dangers to the rule of law and democracy itself.
Download or read book The American Financial Union written by Walter Wellman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Banks written by Alex Brummer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Banks is a gripping account of the problems and scandals that continue to bedevil the world's banking system some eight years after the credit crunch. It follows the fortunes and misfortunes of individual banks, from RBS to Lloyds. It exposes instances of mis-selling, money laundering, interest rate fixing and incompetence. And it considers the bigger picture: how the failings of the world's banking system are threatening to undermine our future economic security. Alex Brummer, the City Editor of the Daily Mail, has had access to all the major players, from HBOS's Andy Hornby, to former Governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King, to the ex-Chief Executive of Barclays, Bob Diamond, to Lloyds' António Horta-Osório. His book is an insightful – and terrifying – account of institutions once renowned for their probity, but now all too often a byword for incompetence, and worse.
Download or read book Big Bad Banks written by Thorsten Beck and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policymakers and economists disagree about the impact of bank regulations on the distribution of income. Exploiting cross-state and cross-time variation, we test whether liberalizing restrictions on intra-state branching in the United States intensified, ameliorated, or had no effect on income distribution. We find that branch deregulation lowered income inequality. Deregulation lowered income inequality by affecting labor market conditions, not by boosting the business income of the poor, nor by enhancing educational attainment. Reductions in the earnings gap between men and women and between skilled and unskilled workers account for the bulk of the explained drop in income inequality.
Download or read book Better Bankers Better Banks written by Claire A. Hill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there’s no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copious amounts of legislation aimed at curbing banks’ risky behavior. Lawsuits against large banks have cost them billions. Yet bad behavior continues to plague the industry. Why isn’t there more change? In Better Bankers, Better Banks, Claire A. Hill and Richard W. Painter look back at the history of banking and show how the current culture of bad behavior—dramatized by the corrupt, cocaine-snorting bankers of The Wolf of Wall Street—came to be. In the early 1980s, banks went from partnerships whose partners had personal liability to corporations whose managers had no such liability and could take risks with other people’s money. A major reason bankers remain resistant to change, Hill and Painter argue, is that while banks have been faced with large fines, penalties, and legal fees—which have exceeded one hundred billion dollars since the onset of the crisis—the banks (which really means the banks’shareholders) have paid them, not the bankers themselves. The problem also extends well beyond the pursuit of profit to the issue of how success is defined within the banking industry, where highly paid bankers clamor for status and clients may regard as inevitable bankers who prioritize their own self-interest. While many solutions have been proposed, Hill and Painter show that a successful transformation of banker behavior must begin with the bankers themselves. Bankers must be personally liable from their own assets for some portion of the bank’s losses from excessive risk-taking and illegal behavior. This would instill a culture that discourages such behavior and in turn influence the sorts of behavior society celebrates or condemns. Despite many sensible proposals seeking to reign in excessive risk-taking, the continuing trajectory of scandals suggests that we’re far from ready to avert the next crisis. Better Bankers, Better Banks is a refreshing call for bankers to return to the idea that theirs is a noble profession.
Download or read book The Bank Culture Debate written by Huw Macartney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the 'culture' of banking in Anglo-America. US and UK state managers made substantial efforts to reform the culture of their banking sectors. However, this book argues that they focused on an extremely narrow definition of bank culture. They did so for two reasons: firstly, because the structural pressures of financialization - which are a far more important driver of the problematic features of bank culture in Anglo-America - are harder to remedy; but secondly, state managers also used their bank culture response to tackle a legitimacy crisis facing their institutions of government. In so doing they abdicated responsibility for the real problems - of inequality and instability - associated with their respective financial systems Drawing on interviews with more than 150 individuals working in financial services as well as regulators, politicians, and lawyers, The Bank Culture Debate explains the strategies employed by state managers before then examining what has and has not changed in the culture of banking in the US and UK.
Download or read book Bank Size and Systemic Risk written by Mr.Luc Laeven and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed SDN documents the evolution of bank size and activities over the past 20 years. It discusses whether this evolution can be explained by economies of scale or “too big to fail” subsidies. The paper then presents evidence on the extent to which bank size and market-based activities contribute to systemic risk. The paper concludes with policy messages in the area of capital regulation and activity restrictions to reduce the systemic risk posed by large banks. The analysis of the paper complements earlier Fund work, including SDN 13/04 and the recent GFSR chapter on “too big to fail” subsidies, and its policy message is in line with this earlier work.
Download or read book Do Banks Provision for Bad Loans in Good Times written by Michèle Cavallo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent debate about the pro-cyclical effects of bank capital requirements, has ignored the important role that bank loan loss provisions play in the overall framework of minimum capital regulation. It is frequently observed that under-provisioning, due to inadequate assessment of expected credit losses, aggravates the negative effect of minimum capital requirements during recessions, because capital must absorb both expected, and unexpected losses. Moreover, when expected losses are properly reflected in lending rates, but not in provisioning practices, fluctuations in bank earnings magnify true oscillations in bank profitability. The relative agency problems faced by different stakeholders, may help explain the prevailing, and often unsatisfactory institutional arrangements. The authors test their hypotheses with a sample of 1,176 large commercial banks - 372 of them in non-G10 countries - for the period 1988-99. After controlling for different country-specific macroeconomic, and institutional features, they find robust evidence among G10 banks, of a positive association between loan loss provisions, and banks' pre-provision income. Such evidence is not confirmed for non-G10 banks, which on average, provision too little in good times, and are forced to increase provisions in bad times. The econometric evidence shows that the protection of outsiders' claims - the claims of minority shareholders in common law countries, and of fiscal authorities in countries with high public debt - on bank income, has negative effects on the level of bank provisions.
