At the top, you can only look down
It’s approaching happy hour at Chez FT Alphaville, so we hope you don’t mind if we finish the week on a lighter topic (as we sometimes do).We draw your attention...
Executive comp rules still unclear
The Washington Post picks up on the idea, thus far mostly pushed by academics, that executive compensation should reflect accountability not just to shareholders of financial institutions...
Flattening yield curve, flat-lining banks
In pic-form — one drag on US bank earnings:It’s the flattening US yield curve. And its antithesis — a steepening curve — is one of the things that helped...
Derivatives reform: now what?
You may have heard that the signing of financial reform in the US wasn’t just the end of a long and difficult process but also the beginning of another, with a host of federal...
Moody’s on ‘breaking the buck’ – and 208 near misses
Some 13 months and seven days ago, we were struck with a certain catastrophe.Reserve Primary Fund — a money market mutual worth about $64.8bn in September 2008 — broke the buck....
More on overcoming the Volcker Rule
On Monday night came the news, via CNBC, that Morgan Stanley plans to spin off hedge fund unit FrontPoint Partners. From the report by John Carney:Morgan Stanley has been weighing...
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,...
