Margaret Doyle
Private banking model in jeopardy
The rich are not happy. According to the Merrill Lynch/Cap Gemini annual World Wealth Report, there are 15 percent fewer of them, and they are less well off as a group than a year ago.
UBS shows flaws of bond accounting
It is one of the absurdities of the credit crunch that banks can book a profit from the fall in the market price of their own debt. In other words, the worse the bank's condition became, the bigger the gain it could book from its own falling debt ratings....Sheikh takes profit in Barclays
The legendary financier, JP Morgan, was said to have made his money by "selling too soon". Some say that is exactly what Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi has done by selling a chunk of his stake in Britain's Barclays. Other sovereign wealth funds must wish they had the same dilemma. ...Fears for tier 1, bank rally overdone
Three months is a long time in the markets, and particularly for banks. Alongside the rally in bank shares, investors have also bid up bank bonds, especially so-called tier 1 bonds which rank just above the equity in the list of creditors. ...Fortis rebels flog a dead cheval
Belgians may like a tasty cheval-burger with their frites, but they ought to desist from flogging a dead one. The European Commission has thrown out an attempt to have the sale of Fortis Bank in Belgium to BNP Paribas cancelled, but the rebels are now threatening to take their case to the European Court of Justice. ...RBS,Barclays: not monolithic on monolines
Barclays thinks the insurance it has against its "impaired assets" is worth twice as much as RBS seems to believe. It's hard to see how both could be right....Allied Irish Bank's last chance to avoid nationalisation
Eugene Sheehy told investors last October that he'd rather die than raise equity. Luckily the Allied Irish Banks boss, who has announced his imminent "retirement", won't have to make good on that pledge....EU funds regulation hits the wrong target
If generals have a habit of fighting the last war, regulators are prone to fighting the war that they think they ought to have fought....Credit Suisse shows Swiss banking lives
Swiss banking is not dead after all. Just a week after UBS admitted that it would lose 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.71 billion) in the first quarter, its smaller rival Credit Suisse unveils a profit of the same magnitude. ...Government should resist the VC trap
The British government is considering whether to set up a mega public-private fund to invest in early-stage ventures. This would be a mistake. While British -- and European -- entrepreneurs have largely failed to produce huge successes like Google and eBay, bunging taxpayers' money at the problem is not the answer. ...Log in
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