Frances Coppola this week posted on her blog an explanation of Capital, liquidity and the countercyclical buffer, in plain English. Frances posted because of Caroline Binham’s use of language in a Financial Times article. Caroline, according to Frances, is wrong. So wrong even that she takes it out on Caroline, blaming her for not being… Read More The language of Capital and Equity
Over the last weeks, the issue of bank Deferred Tax Assets (DTAs) came up again. What does not really help ending this story is the confusion on the subject of DTAs. Let me make a stab in trying to end the DTA confusion. Here are some snippets that from various news sources that I gathered.… Read More In defence of bank DTAs
Today the EBA published the final version of its updated report on the monitoring of Additional Tier 1 capital instruments. Regarding the most controversial issue, the use of contingent clauses, the report recommends disallowing them in the terms and conditions of EU issuances. The output of EBA’s own funds subgroup invariantly meets the highest quality… Read More EBA offers the – wicked – prospect of standard terms and conditions for CoCos.
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