Showing posts with label Banking Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banking Reform. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2013

European Parliament Approves Implementation of Basel III

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By Professor Jeffery Atik On April 16, the European Parliament approved the packet of legislation known as CRD IV, which largely implemen...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Neil Irwin's The Alchemists delivers on its promise: the book is a central banker's view of the 2007/200...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Attraverso Commentary - Tarullo on Basel III and Short Term Wholesale Funding

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By Professor Jeffery Atik The Federal Reserve's Dan Tarullo has been a key player in post-Crisis U.S. bank reform and in the negotiati...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Attraverso Review: The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

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By Professor Jeffery Atik I have the odd habit, with academic writing, of first reading the notes and then returning to the central text. ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Attraverso Review: Bull by the Horns: Trying to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Bull by the Horns is part defense of past action, part call-to-action. Sheila Bair served as chairman of the Fed...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Attraverso: ECB's new role as eurozone bank regulator

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Early Thursday morning (December 13) eurozone finance ministers agreed to take a first step toward establishment...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Attraverso Review: Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets by Annelise Riles

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By Professor Jeffery Atik And yes, Riles pulls it off. She promises an "ant's-eye view" of these stories, consistent with tr...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Attraverso Review: Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence by William Silber

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By Professor Jeffery Atik So what would a Democrat central banker look like -- if there could be one? Resembling Paul Volcker, answers Wil...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Book Review: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates

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By Professor Jeffery Atik What a fun book this is! The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates mixes pop finance with pop science, sketc...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Book review: Paper Promises: Debt, Money and the New World Order< by Philip Coggan

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By Professor Jeffery Atik As its subtitle suggests, Philip Coggan's book examines the relationship between debt and money and its im...
Monday, August 13, 2012

European Limits on Banker Bonuses

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By Professor Jeffery Atik The EU's Council has prepared its draft legislative package implementing the Basel III banking reforms -- kn...
Monday, August 6, 2012

European Politics and the Regulation of Bank/Insurance Firms

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By Professor Jeffery Atik On prior occasions, European implementation of the Basel bank regulatory system had proceeded rather mechanica...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Euro Collapse or European Banking Union

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By Professor Jeffery Atik The implementation of the Basel III banking reforms in Europe has spanned two financial crises. And the Europe...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Bank Capital Reform in the Shadow of the Euro Crisis

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By Professor Jeffery Atik European banking reform continues to develop alongside of - and perhaps in spite of - the ongoing Euro crisis....