Bankruptcy Blogs

Ten years after the adoption of Basel II, the distortion in bank credit allocation produced by risk-weighted capital requirements has not even begun to be discussed.

As Detroit nears a crucial point in its restructuring, what lessons does the city’s historic bankruptcy offer troubled municipalities?

Insurance executive Kenneth Shapiro on the new parallels between insurance and banking.

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Translating Tarullo: The Federal Reserve plans to step up year-round oversight of big banks to ensure they are able to pass stress tests, Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo said in a Wednesday speech. The thrust of Tarullo's remarks suggest a push "to centralize the oversight of Wall Street in Washington," according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper focuses on how the stress-test failures of both Zions Bancorp and Citigroup may have been...

As Detroit nears a crucial point in its restructuring, what lessons does the city’s historic bankruptcy offer troubled municipalities?