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In the pro-deregulation ethos that dominated Washington over past two decades, there was little appetite for adding powers to an agency like the SEC: In 1998, when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed regulating the burgeoning derivatives market, the banking lobby, with some help from hedge funds and investment...
Much has been made of the SEC's failure to spot trouble brewing at the investment banks that fell under its purview. An SEC rule change in 2004 - which didn't generate a lot of attention at the time and passed before Cox came along - let the five largest investment...
Where have we seen this movie before? A financial system in tatters; banks and investment banks, many effectively bankrupt due to an avalanche of souring real estate loans, are forced to merge with rivals; to prevent an economic meltdown, the government is forced to buy up billions of dollars worth...
Two major deals on successive days show that Japan's banks have not only repaired their balance sheets over past 10 years, they're not shy about taking advantage of the current weakness of their American competitors in a fight for international market share. On Sept. 22, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial...
Banks also learned lessons from the 1997-98 financial crisis, which was partly caused by weak risk management. Lenders haphazardly tossed money at conglomerates for questionable industrial projects and property investments, and they chased high-yield, high-risk investments around the globe. But they paid the price in bank and...