Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 13, 2023
A higher ratio of fee income implies less traditional credit risk and less balance sheet usage (therefore higher ROE) but also implies greater market risk related to securities portfolios and potentially higher revenue volatility related to volatility in capital markets.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 6, 2023
The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks. It reflects the bank’s assessment of potential losses it may incur and its commitment to maintaining a strong balance sheet. Jason Oh is a Senior Associate at Strategy& with a focus on financial services.
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MishTalk
DECEMBER 23, 2013
An exceptional bid by China’s central bank to curb soaring interest rates and relieve pressure on the financial system appeared to have come up short on Monday, as Chinese money market rates shrugged off the measure and continued to approach the crisis levels seen in June.
MishTalk
JULY 11, 2014
Financial fluctuations (“financial cycles”) that can end in banking crises such as the recent one last much longer than business cycles. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession.
MishTalk
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
In addition to holding its benchmark rate at 0.25%, the ECB also left the rate it pays on bank deposits unchanged at zero. The eurozone is doing so by accident, letting market forces drain liquidity from the financial system for month after month. ECB president Mario Draghi said: "We have to dispense with this idea of deflation.
MishTalk
MARCH 24, 2014
The next bust will be unlike any other, because the Fed and other centrals banks around the world have taken on all this leverage that was out there and put it on their balance sheets. We produced pretty good numbers, but they’re way behind the benchmark. We have never had this before. Assets are overpriced generally.
MishTalk
DECEMBER 26, 2014
While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.
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