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- Dubai Unwinding Just a Bid by Emirate Banks to Exert More Control over Gulf State?
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: It has long been known that banks use derivatives both as insurance products to protect themselves against calamitous events and as speculative products to engineer outsize returns. In the case of banks in Abu Dhabi last week, they appear to have been using credit...
- External links 2009-11-30
- Could This Financial Crisis Lead to Cheaper, More Efficient Virtual Banking?
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: The recent announcement by Bank of America BAC and JPMorgan Chase JPM that they will change their policies on overdraft fees has me thinking about what other kinds of changes to the U.S. banking system might come about in the aftermath of this year’s...
- External links 2009-09-23
- SEC's Attempts to Institute Financial Reform Could Also Have a Downside
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: The financial services industry is about to get its first attempt at genuine reform aimed at protecting consumers and retail investors, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted today for the first time on whether to ban flash-trading and whether ratings agencies...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Citadel Announces It Will Compete with Goldman Sachs, But Remains Silent on E*Trade
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Citadel chief Ken Griffin is starting a full-scale investment bank, to compete alongside Goldman Sachs GS and Morgan Stanley MS, according to an interview the hedge fund manager gave to Bloomberg recently, which was published Tuesday. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-09-16
- What Will Morgan Stanley Look Like Under James Gorman?
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: For many bankers, September 2008 marked the end of an era, when the 158 year-old Lehman Brothers spectacularly collapsed amid a subprime-spurred stock market massacre. Exactly one year on, just as stock markets are recovering, Morgan Stanley’s MS bankers are experiencing a...
- External links 2009-09-12
- Citadel Hedge Fund: Gearing Up to Become the Next Goldman Sachs?
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Among asset management circles on Wall Street, there’s a persistent rumor that just won’t go away: the world’s most aggressive hedge fund is gearing up to become a full-scale banking institution. Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund, is on many asset...
- External links 2009-09-12
- Populist Politics Shouldn't Be Driving Financial Reform
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Business Insider editor John Carney poses a hot question: Is financial reform really working? If you’re familiar with Carney’s views, you probably already know that the answer isn’t: “it’s working really well.” Carney bases his post on an interesting Reuters article by Huw Jones,...
- External links 2009-09-11
- Standard Life's Joint Venture Sale to Bank of China: Asset Swap or Mountain of Cash?
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Wednesday, U.K. insurer Standard Life (SLFPF.PK) said that it is selling part of its stake in its Chinese joint venture Heng An Standard Life to Bank of China (BACHF.PK). Standard Life didn’t go into reasons for its sale, or the amount the joint venture...
- External links 2009-09-09
- Securitizing Life Insurance: Big Return for Asian Insurers as U.S. Insurers Lose Out
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: In the east and west, bankers are looking to the life insurance industry to give the financial system a fresh dose of vitality. But the wildly different approaches stand to impact life insurers in equally opposite ways. Friday, the New York Times...
- External links 2009-09-07
- The Past Week's Bank and Thrift Data Undermine Obama's Regulatory Plans
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: What’s the difference between a thrift and a bank, other than that the former has a number of dangerous regulatory loopholes it can jump through whenever it pleases and a lax regulator? That was the Obama Administration’s rhetorical question to bankers and...
- External links 2009-08-30
- Against All Odds, Pandit Seems to Be Leading Citigroup Out of Crisis
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: At long last, the tables are turning for Citigroup C. Despite two quarters of profitability, sustained investment in its emerging markets operations as the region boomed, and a near-total overhaul of the bank’s chaotic commercial-investment banking structure, nothing chief executive Vikram Pandit...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Private Equity's Sweet Deal If Investment Rules Surrounding Small Banks Loosen
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Private equity firms look like they are about to get a sweet deal, judging by the expected loosening of the FDIC rules on private capital investment in small, distressed banks and the fact that bigger banks seem more than willing to lend to them....
- External links 2009-08-26
- Goldman 'Trading Huddles': Another Term for Market Manipulation?
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: For those who remember Goldman Sachs’s GS proclamation that oil would reach $200 a barrel by the end of 2008, it might seem a little odd that anyone would still care to sit in on the inside of the analyst meetings. by...
- External links 2009-08-26
- BBVA's Acquisition of Guaranty May Not Be as Easy as It Looks
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Texas-based Guaranty Financial GFG may provide Spanish giant BBVA with a useful entry point to service multiple Hispanic customers in the U.S. But it’s far from fitting like one of the snuggles you see advertised on CNBC. by Daniel Harrison
- External links 2009-08-20
- China's Everbright Putting IPO Funds to Good Use
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: For many investors, the turn of the millennium is a bitter-sweet memory, marked by extraordinary triple-digit percentage gains in new issues of technology ventures that ultimately fell flat. But for companies that survived the era’s crushing equity sell-off, such as Amazon AMZN, Yahoo! YHOO,...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Nomura Share Sale: Exception to a Dubious Trend
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: There’s not a lot of love for Japanese banks in general right now, but in Nomura’s case, you can almost hear the collective sigh of shareholder frustration. Here at BNET Finance, my colleague Alain Sherter and I have been some of the few pundits...
- External links 2009-09-27
- FDIC's Latest Proposal Will Simply Help Big Banks Engineer Healthy Balance-Sheets
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: On the surface, it seems quite sensible that banks ought to prepay Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) premiums through 2012 in order to give the regulator some much-needed cash. A total 95 bank failures this year has left FDIC-coffers dry, to the...
- External links 2009-09-30
- John Mack's Suggestion of a Single Global Bank Regulator Would Be a Disaster
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Soon-to-depart Morgan Stanley MS chief executive John Mack yesterday proposed “an uber-regulator” for the global banking system. Mack said that he thinks a single global regulator would better handle the potential for another round of systematic risk, and that such an institution...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Expect to See the FDIC Go Deeper into Debt
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Profits might be surging at banks with big trading divisions, but lending remains stuck in the mud. In the third quarter, lending by U.S. banks dipped $210.4 billion, or 2.8 percent, representing the largest drop off in 25 years. Partly as a...
- External links 2009-11-26
- Zions Bancorp: Shareholder Confidence May Be High, But Bank's Valuation Still Troubled
- Daniel M. Harrison submits: Anyone who was watching trading in Zions Bancorporation ZION yesterday can be forgiven for refreshing their screens as at one point the stock leaped around 16 percent higher than Friday’s closing price. The reason for such a huge jump — which constituted nearly $200...
- External links 2009-11-24
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