Jonathan Smith What was the root cause of the financial crisis? Ask any economist or banker and undoubtedly they will at some point mention leverage (see e.g. here, here and here). Yet when a capital requirement based on leverage — the leverage ratio requirement — was introduced, fierce criticism followed (see e.g. here and here). […]
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Monday, September 28, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Gerardo Ferrara, Roberto Reno and Maria Flora Financial markets process orders faster now than ever before. However, they remain prone to occasional dysfunction where
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