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Self Regulation is the Best Pill for all Ills of the Banking Industry
Volcker, Vicker or combined global regulations, one may aspire for any or many, but nothing will work when the banks themselves want to fail.
Most of the banks during the recent crises behaved as if they were the masters of the market place...
Best Practices Framework for Derivatives Business
“The world of banking has changed radically as a consequence of the recent crises and it is still changing. The rise of the universal banking model seems almost unstoppable, basically driven by the desire for an accelerated consolidation....
Central Counter Parties have a greater role to play
This blog makes an attempt to cover the role of central counterparties in four parts as under:
Part A– All about Central Counterparties
Part B– Best practices framework for CCPs
Part C – Some loud thinking on their future roles
Part D...
Financial Market Harmonization Through Financial Technology Application
The global financial industry is in the midst of unprecedented and challenging times. Changes in market conditions drive a very different economic climate which beckons the need to accelerate market harmonization in emerging countries.
What...
OTC Derivatives’s Central Clearing – the focus
The introduction of legislation in the US and Europe to move settlement of some OTC derivative products through a Central Counter Party is the much talked about topic among leading bankers. The aim of this legislation is to bring in much needed...
Realignments in Investment Banking – Sell Side to Buy Side
Euro and Europe are going through challenging times.
Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has conceded for the first time that the state-backed lender could sell its investment banking division. Giving evidence to members...
GenNex Public Banking System in USA
The thought for this post occurred thanks to the article on “Economic struggles spur calls for consideration of public banking” by Tracy Loew in ‘USA Today’ recently.
More and more states in the USA are joining the bandwagon and are...
Hedge Funds Demystified
What are Hedge Funds?
Investment pools, mainly for rich individuals and large institutions that can take risks as they play both sides of various stock, bond, or currency markets.
Loosely regulated private pools of investment capital that can...
Hybrid Markets – The markets of the future
The recent market crises and the subsequent regulatory awakening have contributed to the evolution of a new market category in addition to our Over the Counter Market and Exchange Market.
The new regulatory prescriptions by way of central clearing...
Marketing tips – experience sharing
In my earlier role as a banker (in India and abroad), I have lived through some very difficult situations in convincing customers and winning them over to my bank
To facilitate me, from time to time, I have consulted senior bankers -fellow /...
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