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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. The government will buy those assets, freeing up the major banks to loan again to businesses.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

It is clear that banking institutions, state-owned enterprises and local government financing vehicles have remained relatively insensitive to, or been able to circumvent, higher interest rates and bond yields, central government curbs on the shadow banking sector, and the rampant real estate and infrastructure markets.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

Business banks: Banks that focus on mid-sized businesses and commercial real estate. Translated into plain English, asset sensitive means margins expand when the Federal Funds rate increases, as the interest income from assets on the balance sheet increase faster than liabilities. Funding and the Loan Mix.

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