The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Author: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1616405414

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

US Reg International Securities and Derivative Market 11e (2 Vol)

US Reg International Securities and Derivative Market 11e (2 Vol)
Author: GREENE
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Total Pages: 2854
Release: 2014-12-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1454851252

Dramatic changes in U.S. law have increased the need to understand the complex regulation of todayand’s global capital and derivatives markets. U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets is the first truly comprehensive guide in this dynamic regulatory arena. This completely updated Eleventh Edition was authored by a team of attorneys at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and& Hamilton LLP, one of the foremost law firms in international finance. U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets provides thoroughly up-to-date coverage of the SEC Securities Offering Reform rules, the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on public companies in the United States, and much more. Advising clients on cross-border securities transactions means dealing with a tangle of complex rules and requirements. This comprehensive reference explains in detail virtually everything your clients might want to know, including: The U.S. securities and commodities laws pertaining to foreign participants and financial products entering U.S. capital markets, and U.S. securities in international markets, including a comprehensive discussion of the requirements imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the regulatory framework established by the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules and regulations affecting each participant, including foreign banks, broker-dealers, investment companies and advisers, futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors, and others The rules and requirements behind different cross-border transactions, including private placements and Rule 144A, ADR programs, the U.S./Canadian MJDS, global offerings, and more The principal European Union measures governing securities offerings and ongoing reporting in the European Union Many additional regulatory issues, including enforcement and remedies, recent case interpretations, FINRA and other SRO rules, and much more U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets, Eleventh Edition is by far the most comprehensive reference of its kind. This is the only desk reference covering all U.S. laws and regulations affecting international securities offerings and foreign participants in U.S. capital markets. It explains dozens of topics that simply cannot be found in any other published sourceand—saving you valuable research time, youand’ll have all the detailed information you need to guide clients through this dramatic new financial era.

Estimating the Costs of Financial Regulation

Estimating the Costs of Financial Regulation
Author: Mr.Andre Santos
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 147551008X

Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience interested in economic policy issues. This Web-only series replaced Staff Position Notes in January 2011.

Global Waves of Debt

Global Waves of Debt
Author: M. Ayhan Kose
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2021-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464815453

The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many emerging market and developing economies. During the current wave, which started in 2010, the increase in debt in these economies has already been larger, faster, and broader-based than in the previous three waves. Current low interest rates mitigate some of the risks associated with high debt. However, emerging market and developing economies are also confronted by weak growth prospects, mounting vulnerabilities, and elevated global risks. A menu of policy options is available to reduce the likelihood that the current debt wave will end in crisis and, if crises do take place, will alleviate their impact.

Risk Management and Regulation

Risk Management and Regulation
Author: Tobias Adrian
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484343913

The evolution of risk management has resulted from the interplay of financial crises, risk management practices, and regulatory actions. In the 1970s, research lay the intellectual foundations for the risk management practices that were systematically implemented in the 1980s as bond trading revolutionized Wall Street. Quants developed dynamic hedging, Value-at-Risk, and credit risk models based on the insights of financial economics. In parallel, the Basel I framework created a level playing field among banks across countries. Following the 1987 stock market crash, the near failure of Salomon Brothers, and the failure of Drexel Burnham Lambert, in 1996 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the Market Risk Amendment to the Basel I Capital Accord; the amendment went into effect in 1998. It led to a migration of bank risk management practices toward market risk regulations. The framework was further developed in the Basel II Accord, which, however, from the very beginning, was labeled as being procyclical due to the reliance of capital requirements on contemporaneous volatility estimates. Indeed, the failure to measure and manage risk adequately can be viewed as a key contributor to the 2008 global financial crisis. Subsequent innovations in risk management practices have been dominated by regulatory innovations, including capital and liquidity stress testing, macroprudential surcharges, resolution regimes, and countercyclical capital requirements.

Slow Moving Capital

Slow Moving Capital
Author: Mark Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Arbitrage
ISBN:

We study three cases in which specialized arbitrageurs lost significant amounts of capital and, as a result, became liquidity demanders rather than providers. The effects on security markets were large and persistent: Prices dropped relative to fundamentals and the rebound took months. While multi-strategy hedge funds who were not capital constrained increased their positions, a large fraction of these funds actually acted as net sellers consistent with the view that information barriers within a firm (not just relative to outside investors) can lead to capital constraints for trading desks with mark-to-market losses. Our findings suggest that real world frictions impede arbitrage capital.

Global Financial Stability Report, October 2017

Global Financial Stability Report, October 2017
Author: International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2017-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484308395

The October 2017 Global Financial Stability Report finds that the global financial system continues to strengthen in response to extraordinary policy support, regulatory enhancements, and the cyclical upturn in growth. It also includes a chapter that examines the short- and medium-term implications for economic growth and financial stability of the past decades’ rise in household debt. It documents large differences in household debt-to-GDP ratios across countries but a common increasing trajectory that was moderated but not reversed by the global financial crisis. Another chapter develops a new macroeconomic measure of financial stability by linking financial conditions to the probability distribution of future GDP growth and applies it to a set of 20 major advanced and emerging market economies. The chapter shows that changes in financial conditions shift the whole distribution of future GDP growth.