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Volcker is all up in your bonus

In its present form, the Volcker rule has the potential to change compensation structures. Not only that, but the Volcker rule cares about what your intentions were when you executed a trade....

The IBC’s six degrees of (banking) separation

The future of the British banking sector, might just be right hereOn Friday we get the trailed publication of the UK Independent Commission on Banking’s so-called ‘Issues Paper’...

Dodd-Frank, destruction and Buffett’s derivatives

That Berkshire Hathaway has a one-way mega-bet on equity markets is no secret.The insurer built by Warren Buffett — the man who once condemned derivatives as “financial...

How Dodd-Frank travels – all the way to Canadian ABCP

DBRS’s Andrew Fitzpatrick has a wonderfully understated way of putting things:. . . it would be something between ironic and sad if the best-laid plans of the Montréal Accord,...

What Rule 17g-5 looks like

On Monday, Ford became the first company to issue ABS since the Dodd-Frank-induced impasse.It also, according to Total Securitization, became the first to comply with Rule 17g-5....

Credit rating cliff risk creeps to American banks

It’s been a lurking concern since early this year.But late Tuesday credit rating cliff risk came to Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citi care of Moody’s —...

ABS market freed! Ford rejoices! Ratings agencies make provisos!

Behold — the first ABS to be issued since the Dodd-Frank bill caused the market to paralyse, the securitisation markets to declare the end of the world, and the ratings agencies...