Bankruptcy Blogs

Portfolio Hedging Is Alive and Well Under Volcker

12/30/13

The Volcker Rule is a veritable leviathan in size and complexity, but the jury is out on whether it can truly avert another London Whale-type fiasco. DonÂ't hold your breath.

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Mulling a Regulatory Overhaul; Can Banks and Nonbanks Be Friends?

12/27/13

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

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Banks and Nonbanks Need Each Other

12/27/13

Banks need startups to test the waters with new products and services, but startups need banks for their capital, infrastructure, large customer bases, established regulatory relationships and compliance training.

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Banking Needs a New Regulatory Structure

12/26/13

It should be obvious that no one in his or her right mind would design the bank regulatory system we have today. No third-world country's bureaucracy is so byzantine.

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It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

12/26/13

Financial institutions are under more pressure than ever to properly manage their data troves. But many in the industry have yet to master data governance.

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Risk Management Predictions for 2014

12/24/13

Unregulated entities face a tough road ahead. More banks will align IT risk with enterprise risk management. Banks will place heightened emphasis on their overall risk management vision, and data architecture will emerge as critical competency.

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American Hustle

12/23/13

If you want to understand credit and its abuses, you have to delve into the human heart, in all its weakness and strength, and literature and film are powerful ways to do so.  In this observation, I join the growing backlash (see, for example, here and

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Happy Holidays From Bankruptcy Beat!

12/23/13
Bret Hartman/AP Images for Friskies
Friskies “spokescat” Grumpy Cat sits on Santa’s lap at the world premiere event for the music video “Hard to Be a Cat at Christmas” on Tue
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Happy Holidays From Bankruptcy Beat!

12/23/13
Bret Hartman/AP Images for Friskies
Friskies “spokescat” Grumpy Cat sits on Santa’s lap at the world premiere event for the music video “Hard to Be a Cat at Christmas” on Tue
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Face It: FHA's the Only Game in Town for Subprime Borrowers

12/23/13

Before consigning millions of Americans to lives of perpetual tenancy, we need observers on all sides of the housing reform debate to put aside rhetoric and focus on market realities.

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