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A good profile of Robert Steel and his current role as under secretary of the Treasury for domestic finance:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/business/15steel.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
| Quote: | It will have the license to go everywhere: private equity funds, investment banks, hedge funds,” Mr. Steel, the under secretary of the Treasury for domestic finance, said in an interview last week.
By his words and demeanor, Mr. Steel could be mistaken for a midlevel policy wonk — someone hoping to let a little sunlight disinfect the dark corners of the financial world.
In fact, he is a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, the big investment bank. And in the last two years, Mr. Steel has been co-chairman of one commission that claimed heavy-handed regulation was stanching financial innovation and another that argued that hedge funds could police themselves.
His apparent conversion to the merits of regulation illustrates how the laissez-faire bones of the Bush administration have been rattled by the government-brokered rescue of Bear Stearns and the trauma of the credit crisis.
The new industry watchdog that Mr. Steel is trumpeting is the cornerstone of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.’s controversial effort to revamp the regulatory apparatus of the nation’s financial system. |
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No mention of the great bank consolidation of the last 20 years: there is one looming problem JPM dare not mention, that of size. Elephants and Black Swans should not keep company.
The question is: on global scale what is too large anymore? Maybe it's just the concept, "global," that's too big.
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JP Morgan on the ramifications of the current financial crisis:
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Crisis to affect markets for a decade: JP Morgan
Monday April 14, 10:48 am ET
By Richard Barley
LONDON (Reuters) - The financial crisis will affect market structure and pricing for at least a decade and lead to greater regulatory powers for central banks in areas at the centre of the turmoil, analysts at JP Morgan said.
"Market participants and regulators will focus intensely on controlling the risks that were at the core of the crisis," analysts led by Jan Loeys and Margaret Cannella wrote in a note on Monday.
These risks include lending standards in mortgages, leverage in the funding of securitized products, and the use of short-term financing for illiquid long-term assets outside of the regulated banking sector.
This will change behavior for market participants "for at least a decade," they wrote, in line with fallout from previous crises.
"We had the NASDAQ, we had LTCM, we had the various forms of emerging-market crises in the '90s, we had the real estate crisis of 20 years ago: In most of these the direct impact on the behavior of the parties involved lasted more than 10 years," Loeys told Reuters in a telephone interview. "It looks like it takes a generation for the memory to fade and for the same mistakes to be made again."
He noted, for instance, that global equity markets remained extremely cheap on all risk measures even five to six years after the end of the dotcom crash.
As a result of these changes in behavior, banks will become "bigger, safer and somewhat less profitable" as they will retain more assets on balance sheet, the analysts wrote.
Securitization will be reduced, and no longer rely on short-term funding structures that assumed liquidity as a given, although it will survive, they said.
Meanwhile, premia for term, liquidity and credit risk will be higher on average over the next cycle, they said.
JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM - News) is regarded as having steered a relatively steady course through the credit crisis, turning a profit last year where others posted huge losses. It took centre stage in March as it announced a deal to buy Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC - News), averting a collapse that could have set off fresh turmoil in already battered financial markets.
CENTRAL BANKS AS REGULATORS
The biggest change as a result of the crisis will be in regulation, Loeys said, with the focus on the off-balance sheet structures that the financial world has created.
"This looks like a recession caused by financial markets, which clearly policy makers are not going to take kindly to ... There will be a lot of follow-up," Loeys said.
"This was a run on the securitized world. The bank regulation and the structure of the supervisory system was created for a banking world of taking deposits and making loans. That world has moved towards capital markets, which were regulated from the point of view of consumer protection, but not from a systemic stability point of view," he said.
"Banks did not have the tools to try to protect the capital market from its own excesses."
As a result, central banks will be forced to take on more power as they are the entities extending support to the markets, Loeys said.
"Central banks' extension of liquidity to broker-dealers and (the) securitized world is permanent, and will be followed by regulatory control," the analysts wrote. |
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This guy created the much vaunted British finanicial authority and speaks the language of a reformer: Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics & Political Science, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from London about U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposal to overhaul regulatory policies of the financial markets, the global oversight of securities exchanges and the outlook for economic reform.
http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Economics/On_Economy/vzzT5dZtWGw4.mp3
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There was some trans-national finacial authority set up in the wake of Asian Contagion end of decade. It has been low-key advisory institution but could, and is being pressed quickly, into service. Japan--of all nations--was first to the lead here.
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