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Nera: How the banking backlash began
The eurozone crisis, sovereign downgrades, squeezed profits, strict new regulations – when compared with today’s parade of misery, bankers could be forgiven for looking back to the mid-2000s as a golden...
Fundamental review of Basel trading book rules may not begin in earnest until March 2012
Proposal for convergence on derivatives netting could force an adjustment of US bank leverage ratios, says regulator
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Bank tax is ‘flawed’, says white paper on systemic risk
The idea of imposing a levy on large financial firms is a “flawed policy”, with economic costs outweighing any potential benefits, according to a recent white paper prepared by Washington, DC-based Nera Economic Consulting. The white paper, prepared...
Size doesn’t matter, says white paper on systemic risk
The idea of imposing a levy on large financial firms is a “flawed policy”, with economic costs outweighing any potential benefits, according to a recent white paper prepared by Washington, DC-based Nera Economic Consulting. The white paper, which...
Doubt over Fed’s ability to limit systemic risk
The Obama administration’s proposals for safeguarding the financial system place the US Federal Reserve at the heart of a new regulatory regime for systemic risk, but some former regulators are sceptical of the Fed’s ability to carry out the job....
Notching: Poles apart
A long-running dispute between the 'big three' credit rating agencies concerning the practice of notching refuses to go away. Saskia Scholtes examines the latest contribution to the debate from economics consultancy Nera.
No Nera for agencies
Moody's and S&P claim that a recently commissioned study supports their belief that not all agencies' ratings are equal. Fitch, meanwhile, takes a different line of argument. Saskia Scholtes examines the notches that have driven a wedge between the agencies....
Nomura analyst sceptical about Nera's ratings study
Research by National Economic Research Associates' (Nera) economic consulting division comparing different rating agencies' rating processes has been described as "disappointingly inconclusive" by Mark Adelson, a New York-based securitisation and asset-backed...
Nomura analyst sceptical about Nera’s ratings study
Research by National Economic Research Associates' (Nera) economic consulting division comparing different rating agencies’ rating processes has been described as “disappointingly inconclusive” by Mark Adelson, a New York-based securitisation and...
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