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Macroprudential Financial Regulation Is a Myth

Reynolds Holding

If you follow the financial press, you have probably seen coverage of the new bank capital requirements that federal regulators proposed last year. In a new article, we show that even if the banking agencies finalize these rules over the banking sector’s fierce opposition, financial regulators’ job is far from finished.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Cryptoassets and the SEC’s Mandate

Reynolds Holding

While some critiques properly raise questions and engage in constructive debate, others have resorted to shrill attacks that betray a reflexively adversarial position toward any agency involvement in the cryptoasset space. In particular, there are still circumstances where manifestly centralized project teams raise capital from the U.S.

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Bailout Blues: The Write-Down of the AT1 Bonds in the Credit Suisse Bailout

Reynolds Holding

This principle is also central to legal frameworks governing the restructuring of banks. The nail in CS’ coffin came on March 15, 2023, when the chairman of its main shareholder, the Saudi National Bank, uttered the now infamous “ absolutely not ” when asked about an additional liquidity injection into the bank.

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SEC Chair Gensler Speaks on U.S. Bond Market

Reynolds Holding

Fixed income markets, particularly government securities, money markets, and repurchase agreements (“repos”), are integral to how central banks around the globe administer monetary policy. times larger than the commercial bank lending market. [3] debt markets even more from the banking sector to the securities sector.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

Risk Free Investments: Definition, Role and Measures The place to start a discussion of risk-free rates is by answering the question of what you need for an investment to be risk-free, following up by seeing why that risk-free rate plays a central role in corporate finance and investing and then looking at the determinants of that risk-free rate.

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The FTX Collapse: Why Did Due Diligence, Regulation, and Governance Evaporate?

Reynolds Holding

Regulators, lawyers, and central banks still struggle sometimes to put some crypto assets in a category but defining them is possible. Financial assets include bank loans, direct investments, and official private holdings of debt and equity securities and other instruments. The Definition Divides Regulators.

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Is Regulating AI an Impossible Task?

Reynolds Holding

For example, data privacy generally and in particular open banking, in which financial data are shared with third parties like technology providers, are already regulated, and it would be logical to also regulate the use of AI in those contexts. Central banks and regulators still have to produce a regulatory AI framework.

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