Bankruptcy Blogs

The law radically expands the power of the Fed and banking regulators. It gives the institutions that created the crisis more ability to cause bigger problems in the future.

Large expectation value gaps reflect either an investor relations communication problem or questions concerning the validity of management's plan. They can ultimately attract unwanted suitors and hurt a bank's future prospects.

A happy ending.

An increase in capital requirements may reduce earnings, minimize returns and contribute to a stagnant environment where loan production is at a minimum and bank acquisitions are very few.

Receiving Wide Coverage ... Libor Shuffle: We suspected Libor was going to be big news this week. Following CFTC chairman Gary Gensler's call for radical reform of the Libor system, reports surfaced that the British Bankers' Association has voted to give control of the benchmark interest rate - which the BBA itself created back in 1986 - to someone else. The trade association's vote, which took place earlier this month, precedes the formal recommendations from U.K....