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Sunday 14 February 2010

short term profits

Wall St. helped Greece to mask debt... Regulation is blocked in Congress... and the population want services for free. Where do you start a reform?

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Thursday 17 December 2009

I kept adding comments to the two entries below

You might want to read them... even if you read the entries in November.

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Saturday 28 November 2009

2009

Governments pledged financial reform. Where is it?

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Saturday 7 November 2009

year end approaching: bonus time?

The (now) Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments has published a "position paper" on the core principles for a bonus policy.

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Tuesday 15 September 2009

G20 - Part VIII: a cap on compensation?

In spite of the outrage, limiting compensation for bankers will be hard. The question is: on which ground do you select the population having compensation cap vs. the population not having them? This is not just a pedantic question.

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Sunday 13 September 2009

G20 - Part VII: reforming capital requirements

Increasing the capital requirements for banks seems a good idea and is favoured by both the U.S. and the U.K. It might be laughable, given "Basel II" is not applied hence previous improvements to capital rules have not been reality-checked yet. The main worry though simply comes from the fact that changing the rules is riskier than it seems.

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Thursday 4 June 2009

European policies

Tú eliges. Te dönthetsz. À vous de choisir. It's your choice.

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Tuesday 19 May 2009

"20 propositions pour réformer le capitalisme" (partie II)

Vive la suite du débat !

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Friday 24 April 2009

"20 propositions pour réformer le capitalisme" (partie I)

Vive le débat !

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Wednesday 15 April 2009

Les ventes à découvert et leur caricature

ou petit rappel sur la valeur d'usage des investissements

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Thursday 19 March 2009

G20 summit - Part VI (the next accounting scandal is on us)

A crisis does not stop existing because you stop reporting it...

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Wednesday 18 March 2009

G20 summit - Part V

The next summit is planned to propose regulatory lessons from the crisis. Ideas took some time to appear in the open, however two recent reports in Europe might constitute a base for future discussion.

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Wednesday 4 March 2009

sommet du G20 - partie IV

Réglementation saine? Plus de réglementation? Réforme des institutions? Le G20 a un problème sérieux: redonner confiance aux marchés par un changement de lois, quand les lois n'ont pas rempli leur rôle.

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Tuesday 3 March 2009

pot pourri

Valuing banks and employees of the financial sector.

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Saturday 14 February 2009

Regulating Credit markets

Different ideas were floated regarding new regulation on Credit markets, notably Credit Default Swaps. A few ideas do not sustain close scrutiny.

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Wednesday 28 January 2009

Ethical management (errare humanum est)

The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any resemblance to the names, character, or history of any person is coincidental and unintentional.

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Compensation in financial services (II)

Bonuses have been an integral part of the compensation in financial services and clearly a bonus which isn't just a bonus translates abuse...

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Thursday 1 January 2009

Boule de crystal

Comme décrit avec beaucoup de justesse par John Kay dans Kudos for the contrarian, peu de gens veulent connaître l'avenir (les conséquences de leurs choix); les gens cherchent à être rassurés.

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Sunday 21 December 2008

Plusieurs dizaines de milliards d’euros pour sauver les banques, mais pas 1,5 milliard pour le Revenu de Solidarité Active ?

Un billet Les gouvernements auront-ils assez de munitions pour recapitaliser les banques ? oublie un "détail" politique et économique important quant au financement du dernier dispositif destiné à favoriser le retour à l’emploi des plus pauvres. Allons un tout petit peu plus loin sur "Only a bit more elaborate".

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Wednesday 17 December 2008

G20 summit - Part III

Mitigating against pro-cyclicality in regulatory policy: accounting standard FAS 157 on fair value measurements. 

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